Week 9: The Second World War and the New Order in the Middle East

Mini Lecture

Seminar Readings:

Primary Sources:

1-'UNSCOP’s Plan of Partition with Economic Union,' in Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict : A History with Documents (Boston : Bedford, 2001).

2-'Jamal al-Husayni, Testimony on Palestinian Arab Reaction to the UNSCOP Proposals, September 29, 1947,' Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict : A History with Documents (Boston : Bedford, 2001).

3-'Rabbi Hillel Silver, Testimony on Zionist Reaction to the UNSCOP Proposals, October 2, 1947,'Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict : A History with Documents (Boston : Bedford, 2001).

4-'Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, May 14, 1948,'Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict : A History with Documents (Boston : Bedford, 2001).

Secondary Sources:

Robert T. Harrison, Chap. 13 ‘The Middle East in the second World War 1939-1945’, Britain in the Middle East, 1619-1971 (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 169-187.

Jeffrey Herf, 'Nazi Germany’s Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims During World War II and the Holocaust: Old Themes, New Archival Findings,” Central European History 42, no.4 (2009): 709-­736.

David Tal, “The Forgotten War: Jewish-­‐Palestinian Strife in Mandatory Palestine, December 1947-May 1948,” Israel Affairs 6, no.3/4 (2000): 3-21.

Eugene Rogan, Chap. 9 ‘The Palestinian Disaster and its Consequences,’ in The Arabs: A History (London: Allen Lane, 2009).

Further Readings:

Gershom Gorenberg, War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East (New York: Public Affairs, 2021).

Elizabeth F. Thompson, ‘Hasan Al-Banna Of Egypt: The Muslim Brotherhood’s Pursuit of Islamic Justice,’ in Justice Interrupted: the Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).

Robert B. Satloff, Among the righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands (New York: Public Affairs, 2006).

William Roger Louis, The British Empire in the Middle East 1945-1951: Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984).

Patrick Seale, The Struggle for Syria. A Study of Post-War Arab Politics, 1945-1958 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965).

Barry Rubin, The Great Powers in the Middle East 1941-1947: The Road to the Cold War (London: Routledge, 1981).

N. Tamkin, Britain, Turkey and the Soviet Union, 1940-45: Strategy, Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1981).

Shay Hazkani, Dear Palestine: A Social history of the 1948 War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014).

Rashid Khalidi The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance (London: Profile Books, 2020).

Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, The War for Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2013).

Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: the Construction of Modern National Consciousness (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).