Despite the daily news coverage of chronic unrest in the Middle East, many students remain confused about this tangled and politically charged situation. UXL's Middle East Conflict Reference Library is designed to meet the pressing need for a lucid, comprehensive and objective overview of the people, events and documents that are key to understanding the region. The Almanac covers the roots of the conflict and traces developments to the present day. Biographies focuses on key figures, such as Theodore Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, Arthur James Balfour, Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Madeleine Albright and many others. Primary Sources includes many key documents, including: the Balfour Declaration; U.N. General Resolution 181; the Camp David Accords; the Oslo Peace Agreement; and others.For table of contents, sample pages or other volume specific information see the entry for the Almanac, Biographies or Primary Sources.

Vol. 1. Almanac --Vol. 2. Primary sources. -- Vol. 3. Bibliographies. -- Vol. 4. Cumulative index. Vol. 1. -- Almanac: -- Ch. 1. -- Rooted in the past: seeds of discord in the ancient Middle East -- Ch. 2. -- The long decline: from the Ottoman Empire to the mandate system -- Ch. 3. -- Competing visions: Zionism, nationalism, Pan-Arabism, and Islamism -- Ch. 4. -- Building nations I: the Arab world -- Ch. 5. -- Building nations II: Palestine and Israel -- Ch. 6 -- The Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-73 -- Ch. 7. -- The long road to peace: Israeli-Palestinian relations, 1973- -- Ch. 8 -- Global politics and the Middle East -- Ch. 9 -- Terrorism in the Middle East -- Ch. 10. -- Lebanon: the never-ending conflict -- Ch. 11. -- The Iran-Iraq War -- Ch. 12. -- The Gulf Wars -- Ch. 13. -- Flashpoints: ethnic and religious conflicts -- Ch. 14. -- The future of the Middle East conflict. Vol. 2. -- Primary sources: -- Vying for power : dividing Palestine -- Forming a state : the birth of Israel and the Arab response -- Conflict in the Middle East after the Six-Day War of 1967 -- The road to peace -- Competing visions of the Middle East -- Personal accounts of the Middle East conflict -- Artists' perspectives on the Middle East conflict. Vol. 3. -- Bibliographies: -- Mahmoud Abbas -- Yasser Arafat -- Hanan Ashrawi -- Hafez Assad -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -- Menachem Begin -- David Ben-Gurion -- Osama bin Laden -- Mahmoud Darwish -- Faisal Ibn Adbul Aziz al Saud -- Pierre Gemayel -- Theodor Herzl -- Amin al-Husayni -- King Hussein I -- Saddam Hussein -- Meir Kahane -- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini -- Golda Meir -- Hosni Mubarak -- Gamal Adbel Nasser -- Abu Nidal -- Shimon Peres -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Anwar Sadat -- Herbert Samuel -- Ariel Sharon.