Ussama Makdisi, Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of US-Arab Relations: 1820-2001 (New York: Public Affairs, 2010)
Stephen Burgard (Ed.) Faith, Politics & Press in our Perilous Times (Kendall Hunt, 2010).
Juan Cole, Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Malcolm Kerr, The Arab Cold War: Gamal Abd Al-Nasir and his Rivals, 1958-1970 (Oxford University Press, 1971).
Articles for class
Rami Khouri, Why Does the UN-Palestine Vote Frighten the US and Israel? (Agence Global, 2011).Khouri, 2011