Research Guides @ Fordham: Middle East Studies: Getting Started

New Titles

The Arab Winter : A Tragedy by Noah Feldman
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Barren Women : Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East by Sara Verskin
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Beirut 1958 : How America's Wars in the Middle East Began by Bruce Riedel
Call Number: (RH) Stacks DS87 .R485 2020
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press [2020]
Black Wave : Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
Call Number: (LC, RH) Stacks DS63.1 .G4916 2020
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in the Middle East, 1850-1950 : Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices by Inger Marie Okkenhaug
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
The Economics of the Middle East : A Comparative Approach by James E. Rauch
Call Number: (RH) Stacks HC415.15 .R38 2020
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine : A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Call Number: (LC, RH) Stacks DS119.7 .K4279 2019
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2019]
The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa : The Impact of World War II by Reeva Spector Simon
Call Number: (LC) Stacks DS135.L4 S56 2020
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, [2020]
MBS : The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman by Ben Hubbard
New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2020].
The Movement and the Middle East : How the Arab-Israeli Conflict Divided the American Left by Michael R. Fischbach
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Introduction

Welcome to the research guide for MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

This research guide includes selected sources which pertain to the history, culture, geography, and politics of the diverse groups of people who reside (or who have historically resided) in the Middle East.

Resources have been selected which pertain to the primary Middle East Countries as grouped by the CIA World Factbook, as well as countries from other regions that are frequently grouped with the Middle East countries in other information sources. A profile for each country and a map of the region from the CIA World Factbook is provided for reference. For profiles from other sources, click on the Political Surveys tab.

Primary Middle East Countries

Armenia - Azerbaijan - Bahrain - Gaza Strip - Georgia - Iran - Iraq - Israel - Jordan - Kuwait - Lebanon - Oman - Palestine - Qatar - Saudi Arabia - Syria - Turkey - United Arab Emirates - West Bank - Yemen

Related Countries (by Region)

African Countries : Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia
Eurasian Countries : Cyprus
South Asian Countries : Afghanistan, Pakistan
Central Asian Countries : Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Alternate Regional Grouping of Countries:

Gulf : Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Levant : Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria
North Africa : Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
Western Asia : Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan

MENA refers to the Middle East and North Africa

MENAT refers to the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey

MENAP refers to the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

Map of the Middle East

Source: CIA Maps Collection, web

Romanization Tables from the Library of Congress

ALA-LC Romanization Tables
The ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, is approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.

Fordham Middle East Studies Department

The Fordham Middle East Studies Department
The Fordham program includes the geographic areas of the Middle East and North Africa from ancient to modern times, from Morocco in the west to Afghanistan in the east, as well as from Turkey in the north to Somalia in the south. We offer courses in history, anthropology, political science, art history, economics, religion, philosophy, and literature. All of these disciplinary areas are necessary to make the Middle East and North Africa come alive with meaning.

Related Fordham Library Research Guides

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (Arabic)

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish & Arabic)
Oxford's bilingual foreign language dictionaries. Includes usage examples, grammar information, and pronunciation guidance. For English, click on Oxford English Dictionary above.