Regions

Regions

AFRICA

• Understanding Contemporary Africa (April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon – Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013)

AMERICAS

• The Maya 9^th ed. (Michael D. Coe and Stephen Houston)

• A Forest of Kings – The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya (Linda Schele and David Freidel)

ASIA

• Central Asia: The Challenges of Independence (B. Rumer and S. Zhukov – Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998)

• Modern South Asia: History, Culture, and Political Economy (Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal – New York: Routledge, 2004)

• Asia’s Cauldron (Robert D. Kaplan)

• Orientalism (Said)

EUROPE

• A History of Europe since 1945 (Tony Judt – New York: Penguin, 2006)

• The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (Charles King – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

MIDDLE EAST

• From Beirut to Jerusalem (Thomas L. Friedman)

• Understanding Arabs the book

• The Physician the movie

• The Middle East (Time Magazine – Introduction by Jimmy Carter

• The Illustrated Guide to Islam (Raana Bokhari and Dr. Mohammad Seddon)

• The Dream Palace of the Arabs (Fouad Ajami)

• In the Name of Identity (Amin Maalouf)

• The Great Arab Conquests (Hugh Kennedy)

• Power, Faith, and Fantasy – America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present (Michael B. Obren)

• In this Arab Time – The Pursuit of Deliverance (Fouad Ajami)

• The Arabs – A History (Eugene Rogan)

• The Middle East (Bernard Lewis)

• A Peace to End all Peace – The fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (David Fromkin)

• Twilight in the Desert – The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (M.R. Simmons)

• The Shia Revival – How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future (Vail Nasr)

• The Dream Palace of the Arabs – A Generation’s Odyssey (Fouad Ajami)

• The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know (James L. Gelvin – Oxford UP, 2012)

• The Arab Predicament (Fouad Ajami)

• A Concise History of the Middle East (Arthur Goldschmidt)

• In Plain Arabic: A Play in Two Acts (Marmara Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Vakf Yaynlar)

• Oil Monarchies – Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States (Gause)

• The Enduring Legacy of Muslin Civilization (Salim T. S. Al-Hassani)