Ch. 1. Introduction: a fire buring in the Middle East -- Ch. 2. -- The ancient Middle East: home to major world religions -- Ch. 3. Becoming nations: from the Ottoman Empire to modern nations -- Ch. 4. Forming a Jewish nation: the road to Israel up to 1947 -- Ch. 5. Fighting in the Holy Land: the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1947 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973 -- Ch. 6 The longest battle: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1973-92 -- Ch. 7. Pawns in a strategic game -- Ch. 8 Competing visions of the Arab world: pan-arabism, pan-islamicism, and Islamic fundamentalism -- Ch. 9 Oil and water: natural resources and politics in the Middle East -- Ch. 10. The tool of terror -- Ch. 11. The civil war in Lebanon -- Ch. 12. The Iran-Iraq War -- Ch. 13. Confronting Saddam: the United States at war in the Gulf -- Ch. 14. Flashpoints -- Ch. 15. The future of the Middle East.
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