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Understanding the Current Conflict in the Middle East

This resource guide provides a starting point to understanding and contextualizing the conflict in the Middle East involving Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah.

Books

History of the Conflict (media resources)

The first of 5 Episodes (Al-Jazeera, 2013). The narrative moves through the 19th century and into the 20th century with the British Mandate in Palestine and comes right up to date in the 21st century and the ongoing 'nakba' on the ground. Arab, Israeli and Western intellectuals, historians and eye-witnesses provide the central narrative which is accompanied by archive material and documents, many only recently released for the first time. 

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