Middle East Background Info: Suggest Good Reading Material

[Patteran]

The absolutely crucial first book now availible here - i warn you though, it's massive and a massive commitment - it's actually three massively detailed and complex books.

(Patteran - i'm sorry).

The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq's Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of Its Communists, Ba`thists and Free Officers

(Ha! I'll be right on it. When the missus catches me reading theory/history downloaded from here she laughs that I'm 'studying for pretend exams again')

 

[gawkrodger]

Bumping this thread as this seems the most relevant without starting a new thread

For an architectural and planning perspective, see Eyal Weizman's Hollow land: Israel's architecture of occupation.

Just come across this Al Jazeera docco with the excellent Weizman

The architecture of violence