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- (U Alberta) An alternative path: the case of Egypt, Muhammed Ali and modernization - Recounts how the efforts of Mohammed Ali from 1820 to 1840 to industrialize Egypt and unite with Syria were foiled by the British empire for strategic and mercantile reasons; the region remains underdeveloped and fragmented to this day.
www.humanities.ualberta.ca/ottoman/module4/tutorial4b.htm
- Harvard's Center of Middle Eastern Studies - 1001 quality links by subject, incl. books, maps, photos, studies, religion, conflicts.
www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/inMEres/inMEres.html
- MMN Book Selection - Media Monitors Network - A gallery of books in print on the Mideast crisis and related topics.
books.mediamonitors.net
- Mohammed Ali Pasha of Egypt, Syria & Arabia - This admiring sketch of the "Egyptian Napoleon", by William Brown Hodgson, Esq. of Savannah, Georgia, delineates his conquests and character.
www.sunnah.org/history/mhdalip.htm
- The 1991 Gulf Massacre - Questioning the role of the West in the Middle East, from split-up of Ottoman empire, overthrow of democracy in Iran, support of terror by Shah Pahlevi and Saddam Hussein, to the Gulf War.
www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq14.html
- The Clash of Civilizations? - Suggesting that the centuries-old military interaction between the West and Islam is unlikely to decline, and could become more virulent.
www2.coloradocollege.edu/dept/PS/Finley/PS425/reading/Huntington1.html
- The Jerusalem Post Newspaper : Online News From Israel - Opinion Article - Describing the average Israeli as surprised to learn that there is a Palestinian historical narrative which differs from the official Israeli perspective, and that people in other nations consider perspectives which differ from their own.
www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/07/02/Opinion/Opinion.29492.html
- The Peace Encyclopedia - A perspective on conflicts in the Middle East and Asia from a pro-Israeli, anti-Arab and anti-Muslim perspective.
www.yahoodi.com/peace/index.html
- Under Siege - A collection of photographs of the Palestinian intifada against Israeli occupation that erupted on Sept. 30, 2000, and Israel's response.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/photo/onassignment/G21608-2001Nov27.html
- Why do they hate US? - Time-line of US interventions in the Middle East from 1948, by Stephen Shalom.
www.zmag.org/shalomhate.htm
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