In print for nearly half a century, and now in its eighth edition, The Israel-Arab Reader is an authoritative guide to over a century of conflict in the Middle East. It covers the full spectrum of a violent and checkered history-the origins of Zionism and Arab nationalism, the struggles surrounding Israel's independence in 1948, the Six-Day War and other wars and hostilities over the decades, and the long diplomatic process and many peace initiatives.
Walter Laqueur (1921-2018) was a former director of the Wiener
Library Institute of Contemporary History in London as well as head
of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic
and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He taught at
Georgetown, Harvard, Brandeis, Johns Hopkins, and the University of
Chicago. He was the author of The Last Days of Europe and more than
twenty other books, which have been translated into as many
languages, and was the founding editor of the Journal of
Contemporary History.
Dan Schueftan is the director of the National Security Studies
Center as well as the International Graduate Program in National
Security at the University of Haifa. From 2012 to 2014 he was a
visiting professor at Georgetown University. The author of numerous
books on the history and politics of the Middle East, he has been
briefing members and staffers of the U.S. Congress and the
executive branch since the 1970s, and he briefs ministers and
parliamentarians in European and Asian countries as well. He lives
in Haifa, Israel.
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