RECOMMENDED READING
The Bible
Jerome Murphy-O’Connor, The Holy Land. An Oxford Archaeological Guide from Earliest Times to 1700. 5th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Suad Amairy - Sharon and My Mother-in-law: Ramallah Diaries (New York: Pantheon Books, 2005)
Sari Nusseibeh, Once Upon A Country: A Palestinian Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011).
Raja Shehadeh - Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape (New York: Scribner, 2008)
Avi Shlaim - The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001)
Lawrence Wright, Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014).
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Translations of the Quran:
The Koran Interpreted by A. J. Arberry
Readings in the Quran by Kenneth Cragg
Religion:
Arthur Green, Judaism’s Ten Best Ideas: A Brief Guide for Seekers (Woodstock VT: Jewish Lights, 2014)
Memoir:
Ibtisam Barakat, Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)
Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness (London: Vintage, 2005).
Donald Nicholl, The Testing of Hearts: A Pilgrim’s Journal (London: Lamp Press, 1989).
Fiction:
Laurie R. King, O Jerusalem (New York: Bantam, 1999)
History:
Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996).
Martin Van Creveld, The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel (New York: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, 2010).
Historical perspectives
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
Josephus, The Jewish War (Penguin)
