Book List

Pat's Recent Readings ( within last year or so )

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Terrorist Hunter - Anonymous ( Rita Katz )

Peoples History of the United States 20th Century Howard Zinn

The Legacy of the Prophet Anthony Shadid

The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military Dana Priest

Why the News Makes Us Dumb C. John Sommerville

Sadham's Bombmaker Kidhir Hamza *

Uneasy Lies the Head King Hussein of Jordon *

12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time: A Semi-dysfunctional Family Circumnavigates the Globe Mark Jacobson

Beruit Diary Sis Levin book and VHS *

Mountain Rain Eileen Crossman *

Pan Movements in the Third World Shaukat Ali *

The Thousand Year War in the Mideast: How it Affects You Today Richard Maybury *

Waging Peace on Islam Christime A. Mallouhi *

Journalists I've noticed as I have been researching the Middle East

You will need to do a search to pick up their articles. These are a few names that keep falling on my radar screen due to their quality reporting and professional knowledge of their subject. I may not always agree with what they say but they are worth listening to.

Peter Bergen , terrorism expert with CNN. Author of Holy War, Inc.
Thomas L. Freidman , author and speaker on Middle East.
Anthony Shahid Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Dana Priest on the US military and peace keeping
Peter Landesman NYTimes Magazine. VERY courageous reporter

Juan Cole, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Michigan State. Here is is blog.
Doug Bandow , Senior Fellow at the CATO Institiute. Here are some of his articles.