Campbell Hall

Diversity Resources

909.04 Isl

Islam and the Arab world : faith, people, culture. 1st American ed. New York: Knopf : distributed by Random House, [1976].

398.2 Tra

Travers, P. L. Two pairs of shoes. 1st ed. New York: Viking Press, [1980].

Retellings of two middle Eastern folktales reveal how two pairs of shoes unwittingly reflect the true character of the men who own them.

939.4 Hig

Higham, Charles. The earliest farmers and the first cities. Minneapolis: Lerner

Publications Co, [1977, 1974].

Discusses information archaeologists have gathered about early farmers in central Turkey and on the Tigris-Euphrates plain.

956.04 Her

Herzog, Chaim. The Arab-Israeli wars : war and peace in the Middle East. Rev. and updated. New York: Vintage Books, [1984, 1982].

932 Mil

Milton, Joyce. Sunrise of power: ancient Egypt, Alexander and the world of Hellenism. London: Cassell, [1980].

956 Jab

Jablonski, Edward. A pictorial history of the Middle East: war and peace from antiquity to the present. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, [1984].

956 Hir

Hiro, Dilip. Inside the Middle East. 1st U.S. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1982].

956 Mid

The Middle East, 1914-1979. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1980].

939.4 Ham c.2

Hamblin, Dora Jane. The first cities. New York: Time-Life Books, [1973].

935 Ric

Rice, Edward. Babylon, next to Nineveh: where the world began. New York: Four Winds Press, [1979].

A selected history of the Middle East, focusing on the area around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, from prerecorded history to the early twentieth century.

920 Has

Haskins, James. Leaders of the Middle East. Hillside, N.J., U.S.A: Enslow

Publishers, [1985].

Presents biographical information on nine men who have been in leadership positions in the Middle Eastern countries.

953.053 Hor

Horwitz, Tony. Baghdad without a map, and other misadventures in Arabia. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Dutton, [1991].

938 Dur

Durant, Will. The life of Greece : being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to the Roman conquest. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1966].

915.6 Gla

Glass, Charles. Tribes with flags : a dangerous passage through the chaos of the Middle East. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, [1990].

956 Mor

Morrison, Ian A. Middle East. Madison, NJ: Steck-Vaughn Co, [1991].

A general survey of the Middle East with information on its geography, languages, religions, history, occupations, family life, cities, education, food, and legacies.

939 Cha

Chadefaud, Catherine. The first empires. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Silver Burdett, [1988].

Describes the earliest civilizations of Egypt, Asia, and the area between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.

930 Cob

Coblence, Jean-Michel. The earliest cities. Morristown, N.J: Silver Burdett, [1987].

Discusses the evolution of cities and their importance as centers of civilization and progress, especially in the arts, government, and a new means of communication--writing.

956.05 Rus

Russell, Malcolm B. The Middle East and South Asia, 1993. 27th annual ed. Washington, D.C: Stryker-Post Publications, [1993].

956.7043 Pim

Pimlott, John. Middle East : a background to the conflicts. New York: Gloucester Press, [1991].

Examines the background of the present crisis in the Middle East precipitated by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait; and discusses the Arab-Israeli conflict and the search for a solution to the Palestinian problem.

956.05 Mid

The Middle East. 7th ed. Washington, D.C: Congressional Quarterly, [1991].

930.1 Hac

Hackwell, W. John. Digging to the past : excavations in ancient lands. 1st ed. New York: Scribner's, [1986].

Describes the routines of archaeological field work as participants painstakingly search for information about the past; and discusses some assumptions about life long ago in the Middle East, based on discoveries made there.

956.7043 Bey

Bennis, Phyllis. Beyond the storm : a Gulf crisis reader. Brooklyn, N.Y: Olive Branch Press, [1991].

956 Fri

Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor Books, [1990, 1989].

956 Abo

Abodaher, David J. Youth in the Middle East : voices of despair. New York: F. Watts, [1990].

Conversations with young people in the Middle East depict the political strife there and how it has affected their lives.

932 Egy

Malek, Jaromir. Egypt : ancient culture, modern land. Norman, Okla: University of Oklahoma Press, [1993].

J Ste

Stearns, Pamela. The mechanical doll. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1979].

Banished for breaking a mechanical doll that replaced him as the king's favorite, a court musician rebuilds the doll in exile. When they are again before the king, it is the doll who must restore the musician's life.

REF 911.35 Roa

Roaf, Michael. Cultural atlas of Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, [1990].

REF 923 His

Commire, Anne. Historic world leaders. Detroit: Gale Research Inc, [1994].

REF 923.2 Pol

Political leaders of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa: a biographical dictionary. New York: Greenwood Press, [1990].

REF 920.009 Pro

Moss, Joyce. Profiles in world history: significant events and the people who shaped them. [Detroit, MI]: U X L, [1996].

Each chapter focuses on one particular event which is placed in historical context and followed by biographical profiles of individuals who played active roles in the event.

325.73 Kat

Katz, William Loren. The great migrations, 1880s-1912. Austin, Tex: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, [1993].

Describes the massive wave of immigration experienced by the United States between 1880 and World War I and the experiences of the immigrants from Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

J Tem

Temple, Frances. The Beduins' gazelle. New York: Orchard Books, [1996].

In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become separated by political intrigue between warring tribes.

Video 92 Sadat

Koppel, Ted. Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat : Tuesday, October

6, l981 / c ABC News. [S.l.]: MPI Home Video, [1990].

Expanded edition of Nightline covering the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the reactions from key political figures including: former President Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger.

709.01 Str

Streep, Peg. Sanctuaries of the goddess : the sacred landscapes and objects. 1^st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, [1994].

Video 956 Shi

Bernard, Stan. The shifting sands : a history of the Middle East. New York, N.Y: PolyGram Video, [1991].

Traces the history of the Middle East from its role as the birthplace of civilization up through Colonial times and contemporary events such as the Arab-Israeli wars, the Intifada and the Persian Gulf War.

CD-ROM 932 Egy

Egypt and the fertile crescent. Version 1.0.1. Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, [1995].

Includes two presentations (Egypt, Fertile Crescent) that bring to life the peoples who inhabited these ancient lands.

808.81 Spa

Nye, Naomi Shihab. The space between our footsteps : poems and paintings from

the Middle East. 1st ed. New York, N.Y: Simon & Schuster Books for Young

Readers, [1998].

A collection of poetry and full-color artwork from Middle Eastern and North African countries.

306.85 Men

Menzel, Peter and Mann, Charles C. Material world : a global family portrait. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, [1994].

220.9 Mas

Mason, Antony. Biblical times. 1st American ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [1996].

935 Mal

Malam, John. Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, 10,000 to 539 B.C. Austin, Tex: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, [1999].

Describes ancient Mesopotamia, now located in present-day Iraq, and traces its history, technological innovations, people, and culture from 10,000 to 539 B.C.

REF 297 Mus

Nanji, Azim. The Muslim almanac : a reference work on the history, faith, culture, and peoples of Islam. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, [1996].

291.35 Wil

Wilson, Colin. The atlas of holy places & sacred sites. 1st American ed. New York: DK Pub, [1996].

641.5956 Ama

Amari, Suad. Cooking the Lebanese way. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co, [1986].

An introduction to the cooking of Lebanon featuring such traditional recipes as Kabobs, hummus and tahini dip, chard and yogurt soup, and cracked wheat pilaf. Also includes information on the history, geography, customs and people of this Middle Eastern country.

641.5956 Bac

Bacon, Josephine. Cooking the Israeli way. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, [1986].

An introduction to the cooking of Israel including such traditional recipes as cheese blintzes, turkey schnitzel, felafel in pita, and poppyseed cake. Also includes information on the geography, customs, and people of the middle eastern country.

962 Pat

Pateman, Robert. Egypt. Reference ed. New York: Marshall Cavendish, [1993].

Discusses the geography, history, government, economy, and culture of the Middle Eastern country that at one time had the most advanced civilization the world had yet seen.

398.21 Hic

Hickox, Rebecca and Hillenbrand, Will. The golden sandal : a Middle Eastern

Cinderella. 1st ed. New York: Holiday House, [1998].

An Iraqi version of the Cinderella story in which a kind and beautiful girl who is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsister finds a husband with the help of a magic fish.