Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict - A History with Documents
by Charles D. Smith

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible introduction to the multi-faceted history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Smith’s widely respected analysis examines how underlying issues, group motives, religious and cross-cultural clashes, diplomacy and imperialism, and encroaching modernity shaped this volatile region. The book’s narrative and supporting documents, maps, photographs, and chronologies consider high and low politics with perspectives from all sides of the struggle, while the final chapters include the latest developments.

About the author
CHARLES D. SMITH is professor of Middle East history in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona. He has held numerous grants for research in the Middle East, was a Fulbright scholar in Egypt, and served as a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published scholarly articles on many topics, including Egyptian Islam, Anglo-French imperialism in the Middle East, and nationalism and identity. Author of Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt, he is currently writing a study of Anglo-French relations and European imperial goals in the Middle East during World War I.

New in 7th Edition
Updated coverage in the last chapter and a new epilogue bring recent developments into sharp relief. Smith traces events through the Spring of 2009, including cross-border assaults, Hamas-Fatah strife, and the implications of recent Israeli and American elections.

Reviews
"Using primary sources to buttress a clean-yet-sophisticated narrative, Smith has created an extremely accessible text — a fine foundation for an undergraduate classroom experience." — Nancy Stockdale, University of North Texas

"This is the best textbook available for presenting a detailed, factually based approach to the political origins, development, and conduct of the Arab-Israeli conflict." — Kent Schull, University of Memphis