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Middle East Studies Titles
Sussex Academic Press has one of the most comprehensive and rich lists of Middle East titles. Written from the perspectives of Israelis and Arabs, liberals and conservatives, Sussex Middle East studies tackles social, military, political and cultural debates, from the question of the Palestinian refugees to the state of the Jewish nation, and represents a significant and important contribution to political developments in the region.
Abdullah al-Tall – Arab Legion Officer
Ronen Yitzhak
After the War in Iraq
Edited by Shai Feldman
Anglo-American Policy toward the Persian Gulf, 1978–1985
Tore T. Petersen
The Arab Nationalist Advisor
Joseph A. Kéchichian
Arab Politics, Palestinian Nationalism and the Six Day War
Moshe Shemesh
Arab–Jewish Relations
Edited by Elie Podeh and Asher Kaufman
Arab Political Demography: Volume 1: Population Growth and Natalist Policies
Onn Winckler
Arabic between State and Nation
Camelia Suleiman
The Arabs in Israel
Ori Stendel
Arms Control in the Middle East
Emily B. Landau
Asad in Search of Legitimacy
Mordechai Kedar
The Attempt to Uproot Sunni-Arab Influence
Joseph A. Kéchichian
Bedouin Mubasha’ Justice
Joseph Ginat
Bedouin in the Holy Land during the Ottoman Era, 1516–1918
Muhammad Suwaed
Blood Revenge
Joseph Ginat
Britain and the Middle East
Edited by Elie Podeh and Zach Levey
Britain and the Yemen Civil War, 1962–1965
Clive Jones
Britain’s Imperial Position in Egypt, 1942–1947
Eran Lerman
The Camp David Summit – What Went Wrong?
Edited by Shimon Shamir and Bruce Maddy Weitzman
China and the Persian Gulf
Mordechai Chaziza
China’s Middle East Diplomacy
Mordechai Chaziza
The City of Jerusalem
Meir Margalit
Combined Arms Warfare in Israeli Military History
David Rodman
Contesting Symbolic Landscape in Jerusalem
Yitzhak Reiter
The Cold War and Soviet Mistrust of Churchill’s
Pursuit of Détente, 1951–1955
Uri Bar-Noi
David Ben-Gurion, the State of Israel, and the Arab World, 1949–1956
Zaki Shalom
The Decline of the Anglo-American Middle East, 1961–1969
Tore T. Petersen
The Decline of Arab Unity: The Rise and the Fall of the UAR
Elie Podeh
Defence and Diplomacy in Israel’s National Security Experience
David Rodman
Demographic Developments and Population Policies in Ba’thist Syria
Onn Winckler
Druze in the Middle East: Their Faith, Leadership, Identity and Status
Nissim Dana
Druze & Jews in Israel: A Shared Destiny?
Zeidan Atashi
Egypt and the Second Palestinian Intifada
Rami Ginat and Meir Noema
The Emergence of States in a Tribal Society
Uzi Rabi
Fatah and the Politics of Violence
Anat N. Kurz
From Alliance to Union
Joseph A. Kéchichian
From Desert to Town
Tomer Mazarib
From Fighters to Soldiers
Yaacov N. Goldstein
The Gaza Strip
Nathan Shachar
The Holy Places of Jerusalem in Middle East Peace Agreements
Enrico Molinaro
In Defence of Britain’s Middle Eastern Empire
Timothy J. Paris
In the Name of Oil
Ivan L. G. Pearson
Investment in Peace
Shaul Mishal, Ranan Kuperman and David Boas
The Iraq War: Hidden Agendas and Babylonian Intrigue
Raphael Israeli
Islamic Terror Abductions in the Middle East
Shaul Shay
Islam in Indonesia
Giora Eliraz
Israeli–Jordanian Dialogue, 1948–1953
Yoav Gelber
The Israeli–Palestinian Peace Process
Robert L. Rothstein, Moshe Ma’oz and Khalil Shikaki
Israel and Islamic Terror Abductions, 1986–2016
Shaul Shay
Israel and the Post-Zionists
Edited by Shlomo Sharan
Israel in Search of a War
Motti Golani
Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War
David Rodman
Israel’s Intelligence Assessment before the Yom Kippur War
Aryeh Shalev
Israel’s Nuclear Option
Zaki Shalom
Israel, the United States, and the War Against Hamas, July–August 2014
Zaki Shalom
The Jordanian–Palestinian–Israeli Triangle
Edited by Joseph Ginat and Onn Winckler
Jerusalem Syndrome
Moshe Amirav
Jews, Muslims and Jerusalem
Moshe Ma’oz
King Hussein and the Evolution of Jordan’s Perception of a Political Settlement with Israel, 1967–1988
Joseph Nevo
Lost in Translation
Edited by Uzi Rabi and Abdelilah Bouasria
The “Magic Carpet” Exodus of Yemenite Jewry
Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Media Politics and Democracy in Palestine
Amal Jamal
Metamorphosis of the Nation (al-Umma)
Kais M. Firro
The Middle East Peace Process
Joseph Ginat, Edward J. Perkins and Edwin G. Corr
The Middle East Strategic Balance 2003–2004
Edited by Shai Feldman and Yiftah S. Shapir
The Middle East Strategic Balance 2004–2005
Edited by Zvi Shtauber and Yiftah S. Shapir
The Middle East Strategic Balance 2005–2006
Edited by Zvi Shtauber and Yiftah S. Shapir
Middle Eastern Minorities and Diasporas
Edited by Moshe Ma’oz and Gabriel Sheffer
Modern Syria
Edited by Moshe Ma’oz, Joseph Ginat and Onn Winckler
Muslim Attitudes to Jews and Israel
Edited by Moshe Ma’oz
National Schism and Civil Integration
Prof. Alexander Bligh and Gadi Hitman
The Nature of War
Ron Tira
The Nixon Administration and the Middle East Peace Process, 1969–1973
Boaz Vanetik and Zaki Shalom
Palestine 1948
Yoav Gelber
Palestine in the Second World War
Daphna Sharfman
The Palestinian Impasse in Lebanon
Simon Haddad
The Palestinian Refugees
Edited by Joseph Ginat and Edward J. Perkins
The Palestinian Regime
As’ad Ghanem
The Palestinians between Terrorism and Statehood
Pinhas Inbari
Perspectives of Psychological Operations (PSYOP) in Contemporary Conflicts
Ron Schleifer
The Political Legacy of King Hussein
Alexander Bligh
The Political Transformation of Gulf Tribal States
Shaul Yanai
The Politics of Protest
Reuven Kaminer
Population Growth and Migration in Jordan, 1950–1994
Onn Winckler
Post-Saddam Iraq
Edited by Amnon Cohen and Noga Efrati
Radical Islam in Egypt and Jordan
Nachman Tal
The Red Sea Region between War and Reconciliation
Shaul Shay
The Role of US Diplomacy in the Lead-Up to the Six Day War
Zaki Shalom
Sa‘udi Policies towards Migrants and Refugees
Joseph A. Kéchichian and Fahad L. Alsharif
The Search for Israeli–Arab Peace
Edwin G. Corr, Joseph Ginat and Shaul Gabbay
‘A Small Room in Clarges Street’
Edited by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Saudi Arabia and Iraq as Friends and Enemies
Joshua Yaphe
Spanish–Israeli Relations, 1956–1992
Guy Setton
State Lands and Rural Development in Mandatory Palestine, 1920–1948
Warwick P. N. Tyler
The Superpowers, Israel and the Future of Jordan, 1960–1963
Zaki Shalom
Sword and Shield of Zion
David Rodman
Syria and the Doctrine of Arab Neutralism
Rami Ginat
The Threat of Ballistic Missiles in the Middle East
Edited by Arieh Stav
US Policy toward Israel
Elizabeth Stephens
Victory, Defeat, or Draw
David Rodman
War, Peace and International Relations in Islam
Yitzhak Reiter
From War to Peace
Edited by Joseph Ginat, Moshe Ma’oz and Barry Rubin
Wahhabism and the Rise of the House of Saud
Dr. Tarik K. Firro
Water in the Middle East: Cooperation and Technological Solutions in the Jordan Valley
Edited by K. David Hambright, F. Jamil Ragep, & Joseph Ginat
Who’s Left in Israel?
Edited by Dan Leon