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, 2010Topic: ME Studies Tags: None
