Books and Films Generally Excluded from the Current Curriculum in Middle Eastern Studies

A List of Books and Films Generally Excluded from the Current Curriculum in

Middle Eastern Studies

Note: The following list is not meant to be comprehensive. Rather, it is meant to serve as a starting place for students and educators in Middle Eastern Studies and related fields
who are seeking available books and authors with views that dissent from current academic orthodoxy.

Books:

Fouad Ajami, Conflict by Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generations Odyssey

Mitchell Bard, Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab Israeli Conflict

Andrew Bostom, The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism

Nechemia Coopersmith and Shraga Simmons, Israel Life in the Shadow of Terror

David Dalin and John Rothmann, Icon of Evil: Hitler’s Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam

Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Israel

Alan Dershowitz, The Case for Peace: How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Can be Resolved

Alan Dershowitz, The Case Against Israel’s Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stood in the Way of Peace

Martin Gilbert, Israel, A History

George Gilder, The Israel Test

Carolyn Glick, Shackled Warrior

Dore Gold, Hatred’s Kingdom

Dore Gold, The Fight for Jerusalem

Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror

Daniel Gordis, Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End

Jeffrey Herf, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World

Paul Johnson, History of the Jews

Efraim Karsh, Empires of the Sand

Ephraim Karsh, Fabricating Israeli History: The New Historians

Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism

Efraim Karsh, Palestine Betrayed

Aaron Klein, The Late Great State of Israel: How Enemies Within and Without Threaten the Jewish Nation’s Survival

Mattias Kuntzel, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism, and the Roots of 9/11

Anton La Guardia, War Without End

Michael Ledeen, Obama’s Betrayal of Israel

Bernard Lewis, The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years

Yaacov Lozowick, Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel’s Wars

David Meir-Levi, Big Lies: The Arabs Propaganda War Against Israel

David Meir-Levi, History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression

Andrew McCarthy, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America

Benny Morris, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War

Benny Morris, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Fiamma Nirenstein, Terror: The New Anti-Semitism and the War Against the West

Michael Oren, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present

Michael Oren, Six Days of War and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial

Walid Phares, The War of Ideas: Jihadism Against Democracy

Walid Phares, The Confrontation: Winning the War Against Future Jihad

Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, Why the Jews?

David Pryce-Jones, The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs

Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace

Howard M. Sachar, A History of Israel from the Rise of Zionism to Our Times

Gabriel Schoenfeld, The Return of Anti Semitism

Dan Senor and Saul Singer, Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

Natan Sharansky, The Case for Democracy

Robin Shepherd, A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel

Walid Shoebat, Why We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat It

Walid Shoebat, Why I Left Jihad: The Root of Terrorism and the Return of Radical Islam

Lee Smith, The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

Robert Spencer, Onward Muslim Soldiers

Stand With Us, Israel 101

Ibn Warraq, Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism

Robert Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad

Bat Ye’or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam

Films:

The Case for Israel: Democracy’s Outpost

From the River to the Sea

Islam Vs. Islamists

Obsession

The Silent Exodus

Suicide Killers

The Third Jihad

What Really Happened in the Middle East (flash video)

August 16th, 2010
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