Understanding
the Middle East
Arab Revolt
Here is a great
place to start when learning about this crucial time in the history
of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Just put your pointer over termes
and a window comes up to give you details. Here is another site
with lots of links built into the text but no pop-up windows.
Read the Balfour
Declaration here.
Arab League
Lawrence of Arabia
Here in an introductory biography of his life from childhood to famous
explorer. He comes as close to a real life Indiana Jones as
anybody.
Why
don't they trust us?
Have you ever heard it said that those who fail to learn from history
are bound to repeat its mistakes? Read what T.E. Lawrence said about
Mesopotamia ( Iraq ) and hope that we have learned something.
Some more
good advice from T.E. Lawrence on relations with Arabs of rural
Syria.
You might find some interesting paralleles in the life of former
Commander in Cheif Anthony Zinni. Read this
intereview with Jim Leherer on PBS.
You might like to read his new book Battle Ready that he
co-authored with Tom Clancy. Try to get it at your local library.
Here is a good site with lessons connected with the PBS movie.
Find out about the major
players in this World War I theatre.
Ottoman empire
This is a map of the Middle East in 1914 just three years before the
Paris Peace Conference and new lines were drawn.
Socialist regimes
Bath Party