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Middle East Conflict

A Guide to sources of information in the Library's Reference Collection and links to selected Internet sites. The title "Middle East conflict" is broadly
used here
to embrace warfare/hostility involving certain Arab states,Israel and countries of the Persian Gulf region.

Subjects

Catalogue Headings
Chronologies
Current Journals
Databases
Dictionaries
Encyclopaedias
Internet Sources

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Catalogue Subject Headings
Refer to the
Adelaide University library catalogue

Afghan War,2001 -
Arab countries

Arab countries -- Politics and government
Arab-Israel War, 1967 
  see  Israel-Arab War, 1967
Arab-Israeli conflict
Arafat, Yasir, 1929-
Begin, Menachem, 1913-
Gulf War, 1980-1988 
  see  Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Hussein, Saddam, 1937- 
Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988
Iraq War, 2003 -
Israel-Arab War, 1967
Jewish-Arab relations 
Middle East
Middle East -- Politics and government
  see also individual countries,e.g. Israel; Israel -- Politics and government
Munazzamat al-Tahrir al- ...
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) 
  see  Munazzamat al-Tahrir al- ...
Palestine problem
  see  Arab-Israeli conflict
         Jewish-Arab relations 
Rabin, Yitzhak, 1922-
Taliban

Chronologies

Gulf crisis chronology,
compiled by the BBC World Service
Harlow : Longman Current Affairs, c1991
BSL Reference collection 956.7043 B364g

Current Journals

al-Abhath
Bayrut ; al-Jamiah al-Amrikiyah, 1948-
BSL Main Collection 953.05 A316
Vol. 24(1971)-v. 27(1973) in Joint Store XJ65576-65578
v.24 no.1/4 (1971)-

Israel yearbook on human rights
[Tel Aviv]  Published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law Tel Aviv University.
Annual
UnivAd Law, International Law Journals  SHELVED A - Z

Journal of Palestine studies
Berkeley, CA [etc.] University of California Press for Kuwait University and the Institute
for Palestine Studies [etc.]
Quarterly
BSL Unbound journals collection 327.5605 J86
BSL Main Collection 327.5605 J86

Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia
Sydney : Oriental Society of Australia, 1960?-
BSL Main Collection 950.6 O69
Vol. 1(1960)- v.10(1975) in Joint Store J65518-65521
v.31 Supplement (1999)

Middle East policy
[via Expanded Academic ASAP]

Middle East report
New York, NY : Middle East Research & Information Project, 1988-
BSL Main Collection 327.5606 M627.3
BSL Reserve Desk 327.5606 M627.3
Bound volumes in Main Collection
no.22 (1992)-

Middle Eastern studies
[via Expanded Academic ASAP]

Saudi Aramco world.
Houston, TX : Aramco Services Co.
Six no. a year
BSL Unbound journals collection 956.06 A658.2

Scopus
Jerusalem : Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1946-
BSL Main Collection 378.05 S421
Vol.19 (1965) - v.27 (1973) in Joint Store PP27949-27950
v.19 no.1 (1965)-

Studies in conflict and terrorism
[via Expanded Academic ASAP]

Databases

Academic OneFile    1980-
Broad multidisciplinary database, providing full text for a large proportion of the 8000 journals covered.

Academic Search Premier
This database includes 8000 journals from all subject areas, and provides the full text of articles from over 4000 of those journals.

Historical Abstracts
Modern history abstracts 1450-1914 and Twentieth Century abstracts 1914-91, including 365 000 citations and abstracts to 2 000 journals and books.

Scopus
Largest citation and abstract coverage of quality research literature with growing coverage of the social sciences and humanities.
Includes citation tracking for related articles.

JSTOR is a full text searchable library of scholarly journals (mainly in the social sciences and humanities) which contains full content of selected journals from their first issue up to 3-5 years ago......so is NOT current

Project Muse Full text collection of journals from US university presses from the mid-1990s onwards.

International Political Science Abstracts
Since 1951, the International Political Science Abstracts has provided non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals (and yearbooks) all over the world. The scope of the discipline is that of the major political science journals.
Full text available from SAGE Premier 2008: 01/02/2007 to present

Newspapers are also useful as sources of comment on events.

Factiva provides full text and indexing of hundreds of newspapers, mostly from the 1990's onwards.

Dictionaries

Hiro, Dilip
Dictionary of the Middle East.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.
BSL Reference collection 956.003 H668d

Kumaraswamy, P.R.
Historical dictionary of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2006.
BSL Reference collection 956.0403 K9639h

Newell, Clayton R.
Historical dictionary of the Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991.
Lanham, Md. : The Scarecrow Press, 1998.
BSL Reference collection 956.7043 N544h

Encyclopaedias

The Cambridge encyclopedia of the Middle East and North Africa,
executive editor, Trevor Mostyn, advisory editor, Albert Hourani.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988
BSL Reference collection 956 M916c

Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts,
edited by Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
BSL Reference collection 305.8003 R917e

Encyclopedia of modern ethnic conflicts

Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East,
edited by Reeva S. Simon, Philip Mattar, Richard W. Bulliet.
New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 1996.
BSL Reference collection 956.003 S596e

Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel,
edited by Raphael Patai.
New York : Herzl Press, 1971-
BSL Reference collection 956.94 P294

Grossman, Mark
Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1995.
BSL Reference collection 956.7043 G878e

Knappert, Jan
The Encyclopaedia of Middle Eastern mythology and religion.
Shaftesbury : Element Books, 1993.
BSL Reference collection 291.1 K67e

World directory of minorities,
edited by Minority Rights Group.
London : Minority Rights Group International, c1997.
BSL Reference collection 305.803 W927.2

International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences
See links to:-
Area Studies: Near Middle East and North Africa
Conflict, War and Peace
Global / International Studies
Human and Civil Rights
Political Science
Race and Ethnic Relations

Internet Sources

Arab-Israeli Conflict [International Policy Institute for Counter Terrorism]
Center for Middle Eastern Studies [University of Texas]
Chatham House [Middle East and North Africa]
Crisisweb: the International Crisis Group's on-line system [Middle East report]
CSIS Middle East Studies Program
Frontline: the Gulf War [PBS / BBC transcripts]
Guide to the Mideast peace process
Inkpot Newspaper Links: The Middle East
International Institute for Strategic Studies 
International Relations and Security Network
Israel and the Palestinians [BBC News]
Israeli - Palestinian Conflict
Middle East Conflict: [News & Videos about Middle East Conflict - CNN.com]
Middle East Studies [Columbia University]
MidEast Web - Middle East Peace Process Historical Background
Palestinian - Israeli documents [bitterlemons.org ]
"A Personal Diary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" by Nigel Parry
PLO. Negotiations Affairs Department
Sources of Conflict in the 21st Century [includes "Sources of Conflict in the Greater Middle East"]

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