Multicultural
Reading : Middle East
Sehome High School Library
9/22/2005
322.4 Reische
Reische, Diana
L. Arafat and the Palestine
Liberation
Organization. New York : F. Watts,
1991. Examines the life
and career of Yasir Arafat and his
leadership of the
Palestinian
Liberation Organization and outlines the history
of the
Arab-Israeli struggle.
338.27 Mosley
Mosley, Leonard,
1913-. Power play; oil in the Middle
East.
[1st
American ed.]. New York, : Random
House, [1973]. The
millionaires of Baku--The wells of Ibn
Saud--Kuwait--Gusher--Domes for sale--The Independents--The
Japanese--Challenge of the sixties--End of an
epoch--Crude
Facts. Examines the rogues, hardy pioneers,
avaricious
sheiks,
heroes, gamblers willing to risk billions, eccentric
adventurers, entrepreneurs, bribers, and rapacious
governments
in a quest for Middle Eastern oil.
356.166 Hastings
Hastings,
Max. Yoni, hero of Entebbe. New York : Dial Press/J.
Wade,
c1979. A biography of Colonel Yonatan
Netanyahu, who
was killed
leading the Israeli force that freed the hostages
at Entebbe
in 1976.
398.2 Cohen
Cohen,
Barbara. Seven daughters & seven
sons. 1st ed. New York
: Atheneum,
1982. A retelling of a traditional
Arabic tale
in which a
young woman disguises herself as a man and opens
up a shop
in a distant city in order to help her
impoverished family. Her disguise causes her many
complications but she eventually succeeds in redeeming the
family
fortunes and finding her true love.
398.22 Philip
Philip,
Neil. The Arabian nights. 1st American ed. New York :
Orchard Books, c1994. How Sheherazade married the King --
The
fisherman and the Jinni -- Fair Shares -- City of Brass
-- The
Anklet -- The Wonderful Bag -- Judar and his brothers
-- The
Ebony Horse -- The Ass -- Aladdin -- The Speaking
Bird, the
Singing Tree and the Golden Water -- True
Knowledge
-- Princess Nur al-Nihar, the Three Princes, and
Peri-Banu
-- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves -- How many
fools? -- The keys of Destiny --
Note on The Arabian nights.
Sheherezade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, tells her
husband a
different story every night to keep him from
killing
her.
641.5 Amari
Amari,
Suad. Cooking the Lebanese way. Minneapolis : Lerner
Publications Co., c1986. An
introduction to the cooking of
Lebanon
featuring such traditional recipes as Kabobs, hummus
and tahini dip, chard and yogurt
soup, and cracked wheat
pilaf. Also
includes information on the history, geography,
customs and
people of this Middle Eastern country.
641.5 Bacon
Bacon,
Josephine, 1942-. Cooking the
Israeli way. Minneapolis :
Lerner
Publications, c1986. An introduction to
the cooking
of Israel
including such traditional recipes as cheese
blintzes,
turkey schnitzel, felafel in pita, and poppyseed
cake. Also
includes information on the geography, customs,
and people
of the middle eastern country.
891.55 Kamshad
Kamshad, H. Modern Persian prose literature. Cambridge, 1966.
Historical
background -- Qajars and reform -- Regeneration
of prose --
Eye of revolt -- Constitutional revolution --
Historical
novels -- Reign of Riza Shah -- Early writers of
the Riza
Shah period -- Later writers of the Riza Shah
period --
After Riza Shah -- Post-war writers -- Buzurg
'Alavi --
The younger writers -- The leading writer of
modern
Iran: Sadiq Hidayat -- The early period -- The
creative
period -- The life of his countrymen -- The
sardonic
grins -- Hysterical self-analysis -- The barren
period --
The period of high hopes -- The aftermath.
892.4 Browne
Browne, Lewis, 1897-1949, ed. The wisdom of Israel, : an
anthology. New York, : Modern Library, [1956,
c1945]. The
Old
Testament.--Between the Testaments.--The New
Testaments.--The Talmudic Period.--Medieval Noon.--Medieval
Night.--The
Modern Period. Selects books from the
Jewish
tradition
and the holy scriptures which reflect Jewish
beliefs,
both conservative and liberal.
910 Ka
Kaplan, Robert
D., 1952-. The ends of the earth :
from Togo to
Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the
frontiers
of anarchy. 1st Vintage Departures
ed. New York
: Vintage
Departures, 1997. Political journalist
Robert D.
Kaplan
travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to write
about the
crumbling nation-states, expanding populations,
shrinking
resources, and more.
910.4 Wo
A woman alone
: travel tales from around the globe including
India,
Australia, Italy, Faroe Islands, United States,
Thailand,
Brazil, Indonesia, France, Ireland, Belize,
Guatemala,
Bhutan, Mongolia, Seychelles, mexico, Turkey,
Jordan,
Spain, Uzbekistan, Japan, Senegal, Switzerland and
Niger. Seattle : [Berkely, CA] : Seal Press ;
Distributed
to the
trade by Publisher's Group West, 2001.
A collection
of
twenty-nine stories by women who travel alone featuring a
variety of
locations and experiences.
920 Children
Holliday,
Laurel, 1946-. Children of Israel,
children of
Palestine : our own true stories. New York : Pocket Books,
1998. Israeli Jews and Palestinians appear side by
side for
the first
time in this remarkable book to share powerful
feelings
and reflections on growing up in one of the world's
longest and
most dangerous conflicts.
949.6 Kherdian
Kherdian,
David. The road from home : the
story of an Armenian
girl. 1st ed.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1979.
A
biography
of the author's mother Veron who was born to a
prosperous
Armenian family in the Armenian quarter of Azizya
in Turkey.
In 1915 Turkey decided to rid itself of its
Armenian
population and her family was deported to
incredible
hardships.
953.8 MacLean
MacLean,
Alistair. Lawrence of Arabia. New York : Random House,
1962. The land of Arabia--The training of a desert
fighter--First victory--The march on Aqaba--Guerrilla
warfare--Failure and success--Forward again--Victory on all
sides--The
rout of the Turks--A triumphant entry into
Damascus--A
peaceful settlement. T.E. Lawrence was
an
English
soldier, archaeologist and author famous for his
activities
in arousing and directing a successful rebellion
of the
Arabs against the Turks during World War I. He became
an almost
legendary figure in the Middle East.
955 Ca
Cartlidge,
Cherese. Iran. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books,
c2002. Discusses the development of Iran from
prehistoric
times, its geography,
governments, religious beliefs,
culture,
social changes, and modern problems.
955.05 McFadden
McFadden, Robert
D. No hiding place : the New York
times inside
report on
the hostage crisis. New York : Times Books,
c1981. Describes the crisis in Iran based on
personal
accounts by
the hostages. Also discusses the issues and
decisions
surrounding their capture in the world beyond.
955.053 Kapuscinski
Kapuscinski,
Ryszard. Shah of shahs. San Diego : Harcourt
Brace,
Jovanovich, c1985. Presents impressions
and
reflections
of Iran after the revolutionaries came to power
in 1980.
955.053 Sullivan
Sullivan,
William H. (William Healy), 1922-. Mission
to Iran.
1st
ed. New York : Norton, c1981. Written by the U.S.
ambassador
to Iran at the time of the revolution that
deposed the
shah, this narrative shows the forces at work in
Iran and
U.S. reactions.
956.04 Friedman
Friedman, Thomas
L. From Beirut to Jerusalem. 1st Anchor Books
ed.
New York : Anchor Books, 1990, c1989.
Examines
Israeli-Palestinian relations, the PLO, Israeli politics,
Lebanese
factions, news reporting from the Middle East, and
other
issues of the Middle East.
956.62 Bedoukian
Bedoukian,
Kerop, 1907-. Some of us survived :
the story of an
Armenian
boy. 1st American ed. New York : Farrar Straus
Giroux,
1979, c1978. 9-year old Kerop
Bedoukaian was used
to the
hostility between the Turks and the Armenians in his
hometown of
Sivas, but when soldiers came and took his
father away
to prison, his world began to fall apart. Soon,
the 30,000
inhabitants of the town were evicted from their
homes,
gathered into a column and driven into the desert,
where all
but 1500 of them died.
956.94 Levin
Levin,
Meyer. The story of Israel. New York : Putnam, 1966.
The telling
of the history of Israel through the lives of
various
people such as: the aristocratic Baron de
Rothschild,
the journalist-prophet Theodore Herzl, the labor
leader Ben
Gurion, and the chemist-statesman Chayim
Weizmann.
956.94 Zagoren
Zagoren,
Ruby. Chaim Weizmann, first
president of Israel.
Champaign,
Ill., : Garrard Pub. Co., [1972]. A
biography of
the scientist and Zionist leader
who became the first
President
of the newly-formed state of Israel in 1948.
F Bagdasarian
Bagdasarian,
Adam. The forgotten fire. New York : DK Pub.,
c2000.
The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the
Turkish
massacre of the Armenians in 1915.
F Berberian
Berberian,
Viken. The cyclist : a novel. 1st Simon & Schuster
trade pbk.
ed. New York : Simon & Schuster,
2003. A
Middle-Eastern man reflects on his motivations for becoming
a suicide
bomber as he bicycles towards a hotel with a bomb.
F Carmi
Carmi,
Daniella. Samir and Yonatan. New York : Scholastic
Signature,
2002. Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent
for
surgery to
an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly
experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan,
and
traveling with him to Mars where Samir finds peace about
his
brother's death in the war.
F Clinton
Clinton,
Cathryn. A stone in my hand. 1st ed.
Cambridge, Mass.
: Candlewick
Press, 2002. Eleven-year-old Malaak and
her
family are
touched by the violence in Gaza between Jews and
Palestinians when first her father disappears and then her
older
brother is drawn to the Islamic Jihad.
F Clinton
Clinton,
Cathryn. A stone in my hand. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge,
Mass. :
Candlewick Press, 2004, c2002.
Eleven-year-old
Malaak and
her family are touched by the violence in Gaza
between
Jews and Palestinians when first her father
disappears
and then her older brother is drawn to the
Islamic
Jihad.
F Forman
Forman, James
D. Call back yesterday. New York : Scribner,
c1981. An American girl, sole survivor of the
violent
climax to
the terrorist takeover of an American embassy,
tries, with
a doctor's help, to piece together her memory of
the crucial incident in time to avert
a world conflict.
F Laird
Laird,
Elizabeth. Kiss the dust. 1st American ed. New York :
Dutton
Children's Books, 1992. Tara is a
Kurdish girl who
lives with her family in a city in Iraq.
They have a good
life with a
nice house, western clothing, school and a
Mercedes.
Her father's involvement with the Kurdish
resistance
movement in Iraq forces thirteen-year-old Tara to
flee with
her family over the border into Iran, where they
face an
unknown future.
F Levitin
Levitin, Sonia,
1934-. The singing mountain. 1st Aladdin
Paperbacks ed. New York : Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999. While
traveling
in Israel for the summer, seventeen-year-old Mitch
decides to
stay and pursue a life of Jewish orthodoxy,
forcing him
to make some important decisions about the
family and
life he is leaving in southern California.
F Makiya
Makiya,
Kanan. The rock : a tale of
seventh-century Jerusalem.
1st
ed. New York : Pantheon Books, c2001. Ka'b's son Ishaq
is assigned
to design the first monument of Islam, the Dome
of the
Rock, and tells stories, legends, and beliefs that
define what
it means.
F Napoli
Napoli, Donna
Jo, 1948-. The song of the Magdalene. New York :
Scholastic
Press, c1996. Tells the story of
Miriam, a young
girl being
raised by her widowed father in ancient Israel,
who grows
up to be Mary Magdalene.
F Napoli
Napoli, Donna
Jo, 1948-. Beast. 1st ed.
New York : Atheneum
Books for
Young Readers, c2000. Tells the story
of the
Persian
Prince Orasmyn, how he became "the beast," and other
events
leading up to the classic fairy tale.
F Nye
Nye, Naomi
Shihab. Habibi : Naomi Shihab Nye. 1st ed.
New York
: Simon
& Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997.
When
fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud,
her younger brother, and
her parents
move from St. Louis to a new home between
Jerusalem
and the Palestinian village where her father was
born, they
face many changes and must deal with the tensions
between
Jews and Palestinians.
F Schami
Schami, Rafik,
1946-. A hand full of stars. 1st American ed.
New York :
Dutton Children's Book, 1990. A teenager
who
wants to be
a journalist in a suppressed society describes
to his
diary his daily life in his hometown of Damascus,
Syria.
F Singer
Singer, Isaac
Bashevis, 1904-. The penitent. New York : Farrar,
Straus,
Giroux, c1983. Joseph Shapiro, a
wealthy
businessman, stretched thin between the demands of wife,
mistress
and job, one day feels such total disgust for his
lifestyle that he abandons everything and
flies to Israel,
where he
assumes the role of the penitent. He divorces "the
wanton" and marries the rabbi's daughter and devotes himself
to prayer
and study.
PB Clancy
Clancy, Tom,
1947-. Tom Clancy's op-center : acts
of war.
Berkley
ed. New York : Berkley Books,
1997. Kurdish
terrorists
are plotting to force all-out war in the Middle
East, and when they become aware that a
new mobile Op-Center
is on-line
in Turkey, they decide the high-tech crisis
management
facility might fit right in with their plans.
PB Hayes
Hayes,
Billy. Midnight express. New York : Fawcett Popular
Library,
c1977. The author describes the years
he spent in
a Turkish
jail for smuggling hashish and the escape plan he
devised and
carried out.
PB Mahmoody
Mahmoody,
Betty. Not without my daughter. 1st ed.
New York :
St.
Martin's Press, c1987. The true story
of Betty
Mahmoody's
desperate struggle to survive and to escape with
her daughter from the alien and
frightening culture of Iran.
PB Uris
Uris, Leon M.,
1924-. Exodus. [1st ed.].
Garden City, N.Y., :
Doubleday,
1958.
PB Whitney
Whitney, Phyllis
A., 1903-. Black amber. Fawcett Crest ed. New
York :
Ballantine, 1982, c1964. A young woman
goes to
Istanbul to
investigate the circumstances of her sister's
death.
PB Wiesel
Wiesel, Elie,
1928-. Dawn. New York : Bantam, 1982. In
British-controlled Palestine, Elisha, a young Israeli
freedom
fighter, and a captured English officer await dawn
and death.
VT 956.94 Lo (SHS)
The long way
home (videotape). Salt Lake City,
UT : BWE Video,
1998. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. Voices of Edward Asner,
Sean Astin,
Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes [and others].
Interviews with Holocaust survivors,
archival footage and
contemporary news broadcasts illuminate the period between
the end of
World War II and the formation of the Israeli
state in
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