Modern Middle East - Biography

Ebooks:

A prophet from amongst you: the life of Yigael Yadin : soldier, scholar, and mythmaker of modern Israel, Silberman, Neil Asher

World I Loved : The Story of an Arab Woman  
Author: Cortas, Wadad Makdisi  

Next Founders : Voices of Democracy in the Middle East
Muravchik, Joshua

Ariel Sharon : An Intimate Portrait
Dan, Uri

Man Who Pushed America to War : The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Roston, Aram

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
by Nafisi, Azar

Son of the Cypresses : Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life
Benvenisti, Meron

Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur : From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada
Rejwan, Nissim

Print Books (click link to check status in CBC Library's Catalog):

Arafat : from defender to dictator
by Aburish, Saïd K .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection  - DS119.7 .A68A28 1998

Atatürk
by Mango, Andrew.
CBC Library, Pasco - On Order

The Ayatollah begs to differ : the paradox of modern Iran
by Majd, Hooman.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS318.9 .M35 2008

House of stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East
by Shadid, Anthony.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ663.9 .S53 2012

Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in American and American in Iran
by Moaveni, Azadeh
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - E184 .I5M63 2006

Man of defiance : a political biography of Anwar Sadat
by Israeli, Raphael .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.828 .S23I84 1985

Mayada, daughter of Iraq : one woman's survival under Saddam Hussein
by Sasson, Jean P .
CBC Library, Pasco - HQ1735.Z75A56 2004

Nasser
by Nutting, Anthony .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.83 .N79 1972b

The oil kings : how the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East by Cooper, Andrew Scott
CBC Library, Pasco - E183.8 .I55C66 2011

The prince : the secret story of the world's most intriguing royal, prince Bandar bin Sultan
by Simpson, William
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS244.526 .B55S56 2006

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
by Nafisi, Azar.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N34 2004

The Shah
by Milani, Abbas
CBC Library, Pasco - DS318 .M494 2011

Things I've been silent about : memories
by Nafisi, Azar
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N345 2008

Who Speaks for Islam? - PHIL 131

"A Link TV original production that explores Islam in an age when Muslim extremists are laying claim to the religion." More information and viewing options at http://www.linktv.org/programs/who_islam.

Earthquake

Chile Earthquake
Magnitude 8.8 - OFFSHORE MAULE, CHILE. USGS national earthquake information center.

News

• Gibbs, Robert. Information on the Chilean Earthquake and Tsunami Warnings. The White House Blog. Feb. 27, 2010. Web.
• Mackey, Robert. Latest Updates on Earthquake in Chile New York Times (blog)
• Kraul, Chris. 8.8 earthquake hits Chile; tsunami feared throughout eastern Pacific. LA Times. Feb. 27, 2010. Web.

How you can help

• Chile Earthquake: How you can help and stay safe from tsunamis. USA Today. Feb 27, 2010. Web.
• Google page: Support Disaster Relief in Chile (Include person finder.)

Haiti Earthquake
News Brief on Haitian reconstruction:Ten percent of relief aid should be allocated to building safer houses, hospitals and schools
The White House Haiti Earthquake Relief page
http://www.whitehouse.gov/haitiearthquake_embed
Center for International Disaster Information
http://www.cidi.org/incident/haiti-10a/
USGS national earthquake information center.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/#summary
Additional information, news reports
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/#news
US Department of State
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_haiti_info_number.html

Earthquakes in General

CBC Library Books: (earthquakes OR Seismology)[in Subject] OR (earthquake? AND disaster?)[in Keyword Anywhere]

Worsnop, Richard L. "Earthquake Research." CQ Researcher 4.47 (1994): 1105-1128. CQ Researcher. Web.

International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

• News Brief: Earthquakes caused the deadliest disasters in the past decade

updated 2/2/2010 yy

Three Cups of Tea

Useful Topic of the Week posts:

• Afghanistan
  
• Pakistan

Articles

• EBSCOhost - SU(afghanistan or pakistan) AND (mortenson or school* or education)
  
• ProQuest - GEO(afghanistan or pakistan) AND (mortenson or school* or education)

Web

From the book's website a Three Cups of Tea Reading Guide and a Question & Answer Interview.

http://tinyurl.com/3cupsUtubes - YouTube videos, including interviews with the author.

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Ministry of Education. Web.

Pakistan. Ministry of Education. Web.

Here is a Google Advanced search for related Government websites: schools pakistan OR afghanistan site:.gov

Afghanistan

Articles
EBSCOhost
Afghanistan [Subject Terms] - over 5000 full text articles

Add terms to second search line to focus on subtopics - for instance:

• war or military or armed forces
• taliban or counterinsurgency or qaida
• rebuild* or reconstruct* or nation building
• school* or education

ProQuest
Afghanistan - over 39500 full text articles; note that this search is limited to the keyword 'Afghanistan' as 'Location' rather than subject. As above, add topic keywords to other search lines to narrow: GEO(afghanistan) AND (school* or education)
CQ Researcher - Afghanistan Dilemma - August 7, 2009.

Books
CBC Library Catalog - su:afghanistan or ti:afghanistan
Ebrary - subject search Afghanistan - 19 ebooks

Reference
Articles on Afghanistan (primarily background) from 4 encyclopedias in the History & Culture subcollection of Gale Virtual Reference.

Updated: 3/12/2011

Pakistan

Articles

EBSCOhost

pakistan [Subject Terms] - over 4200 full text articles

Add terms to second search line to focus on subtopics - for instance:

• military or armed forces
• taliban or qaida
• school* or education

ProQuest

pakistan - over 35900 full text articles; note that this search is limited to the keyword 'pakistan' as 'Location' rather than subject. As above, add topic keywords to other search lines to narrow: GEO(pakistan) AND (school* or education)

Books

CBC Library Catalog - su:pakistan or ti:pakistan

Ebrary - subject search pakistan - 12 ebooks

Reference

Country Profile: Pakistan Facts on File World News Digest. Includes many links to articles as well as facts, history. Long, Roger D. "Pakistan" Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern World. Ed Peter N. Stearns. Oxford UP, 2008.
Articles on pakistan (primarily background) from 4 encyclopedias in the History & Culture subcollection of Gale Virtual Reference, including an 18 page article from the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations 11th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004. "Pakistan: Recent History." Europa World. Regularly updated.

History 115 - Modern Middle East

Useful Topic of the Week posts:

• Afghanistan
  
• Palestine-Israel Conflict
  
• Pakistan
  
• Iraq War
  
• Iran

Issues of the CQ Researcher on other related topics (last 5 years):

• Afghanistan Dilemma - August 7, 2009
  
• Understanding Islam - November 3, 2006
  
• Middle East Tensions - October 27, 2006
  
• Global Jihad - October 14, 2005
  
• Democracy in the Arab World - January 30, 2004
  
• Or Browse by Topic Regional Political Affairs: Middle East and South Asia

Reference Gale Virtual Reference - search the entire History subcollection, or browse individual titles:

• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. New York: Macmillan 2004.
  
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. New York: Macmillan 2004.

Daily Life Online - browse Middle East region CBC Library - Reference Collection

• Oxford encyclopedia of the Islamic world. Oxford University Press, 2009.
  Call Number: DS35.53 .O96 2009
  
• Atlas of the Middle East. National Geographic Society, 2008.
  Call Number: G2205 .N34 2008
  
• Smith, Dan. The state of the middle east : an atlas of conflict and resolution. University of California Press, 2006.
  Call Number: G2205 .S653 2006

Books Ebooks Modern Middle East : A Sourcebook for History. Fortna, Benjamin C., Camron Amin, Elizabeth B. Frierson, eds. Oxford UP, 2006. [ebrary] Kamrava, Mehran. Modern Middle East : A Political History Since the First World War. University of California Press, 2004. [ebrary] Sicker, Martin. Middle East in the Twentieth Century. Greenwood, 2001. [ebrary] Or search for more titles in Ebrary on the Middle East AND (history or civilization or relations) Hodgson, Marshall G. S. The venture of Islam: conscience and history in a world civilization. Vol. 1-3. University of Chicago Press: 1974. [ACLS] Search the ACLS Humanities database for ebooks on the Subject "Middle East" or for individual countries. Print Titles Search the CBC Library Catalog for the Su:Middle East or for individual countries.

Palestine - Israel Conflict

Books in the CBC Library Catalog

Search Keywords:palestin israel
Search Keyword:gaza

E-Books
ACLS

• The struggle for Palestine , Hurewitz, J. C., 1914-
• Birthing the nation: strategies of Palestinian women in Israel, Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann.
• Palestinian identity: the construction of modern national consciousness, Khalidi, Rashid.
• The origins of Palestinian nationalism , Muslih, Muhammad Y.

Ebrary - search Palestin* OR Israel* OR 'Arab-Israeli Conflict' - titles include:

• Hamas : Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad. Levitt, Matthew. Yale UP, 2006.
  
• Scars of War, Wounds of Peace : The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. Ben-Ami, Shlomo. Oxford UP, 2006.
  
• Barrier : The Seam of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Kershner, Isabel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
  
• Peace Process: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1967 - Third edition. Quandt, William B. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.
  

Gale Virtual Reference - Search for articles in over a dozen encyclopedias or browse

• Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. New York: Macmillan 2004.
  
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. New York: Macmillan 2004.

Articles Facts.com

• "Key Issue: Arab-Israeli Relations." Facts On File World News Digest @ FACTS.com.
• DeFrees, Allison. "Middle East Peace Process." Issues & Controversies in American History. 11 Apr. 2006. Facts On File News Services.

CQ Researcher Issues

• Middle East Tensions (10/27/2006)
  
• Middle East Peace (1/21/2005)
  
• "Background: Israel's Birth" in Israel at 50 (3/6/1998)
  
• "Background: Roots of the Conflict." in The Palestinians (8/30/1991)

EBSCOhost - (Limited to Full Text and CBC Title Collection)

• Subject: Gaza (300+ articles)
  
• west bank and ( barrier or fence or wall* or obstacles ) (200+ articles)
  
• (west bank or gaza) and israel* and (withdraw* or disengage*) (575+ articles)
  
• Palestine - Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture - full text 2001-present; "provides background material and in-depth analysis of various aspects of the conflict from the perspective of both sides."

ProQuest - (Limited to Full Text)

• Gaza - 4600+ journal, newspaper, and magazine articles published after June 2006
  
• (foreign policy or peace process) AND (palestin* or israel*) AND (united states )(9000+ articles)
  
• (west bank) AND (barrier or wall or fence) AND (legal* or illegal* or International Court of Justice) (375+ articles)

updated 3/14/2011

Mexico's Drug War

Katel, Peter. "Mexico's Drug War." CQ Researcher 18.43 (2008): 1009-1032.

Is the violence spilling into the U.S.?A violent drug war between the Mexican government and vicious drug gangs is escalating just over the border in Mexico — and causing concern among U.S. law-enforcement officials and lawmakers. The cartels already effectively control significant stretches on the Mexican side of the border, and now they're expanding activities on the U.S. side, including kidnapping Americans. More than 5,300 people — gangsters, soldiers, police, journalists and other civilians — have been killed this year, more than double last year's toll. Some victims have been beheaded. The Bush administration has stepped up security assistance to Mexico, but so far the aid hasn't dented the gangs' firepower, which largely depends on smuggled U.S. weapons. Some prominent foreign-policy experts say the ultimate solution is preventing drug abuse in the United States, not expanding the Mexican government's arsenal.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

EBSCOhost
( drug* or narcotics ) and ( weapon* or firearm* or gun* or arms or violence ) and ( cartel* or gang* or dealer* ) and ( smuggl* or traffick* or trade ) and ( mexic* or border or routes )

ProQuest

(drug* or narcotics) AND (traffick* or trade or smuggl*) AND (arm* or weapon* or gun* or firearm* or violence) AND GEO(mexic* ) AND GEO(united states) AND (cartel* or gang* or dealer* )

Books

Search keywords: drug mexic
Reference

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Entries related to drug trafficking and mexico from several scholarly encyclopedias covering law, social sciences and history.

Ebooks

Search Ebrary directly for titles on drug trafficking along the mexico-u.s. border.

Web
NPR. The Diane Rehm Show. Mexican Security and the U.S. January 14, 2009. (Scroll down to see the 11:00 program and click on "Real Audio" or Windows Media link on the right to listen to the radio program.)

Pakistan & Mumbai Terror Attack

Articles

Kiener, Robert. "Crisis in Pakistan: Can the fragile democracy survive?" CQ Global Researcher Dec. 2008. South Asia experts warn that Pakistan — recently dubbed "the new center of the war against terrorism" — could become the world's first nuclear-armed "failed state." The Muslim country's new president faces a spike in terrorist bombings, rising Islamic fundamentalism, a weakened democracy and a faltering economy. Already, more people have been killed in suicide bombings in Pakistan during the first eight months of 2008 than in Iraq or Afghanistan. And Indian authorities suspect that Islamic terrorists from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir perpetrated last week's Mumbai terrorist attacks that killed 173 people. Another challenge for President Asif Ali Zardari and his relatively young nation: growing resentment about recent U.S. military incursions into terrorist-infested Pakistani tribal territories. Although the country has weathered many storms since its founding in 1947, experts wonder if recent developments threaten its survival. As the new administration tries to hold the disparate nation together, a strong military — with a long history of usurping civilian rule — is poised to take over once again. The world watches with growing concern to see if the fragile democracy can survive or if Pakistan — with its nuclear arsenal — will devolve into chaos.
From the CQ Global Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

EBSCOhost

Do a subject or GE Geographic Terms search for Pakistan [over 2000 full text articles], then narrow using a subject term from the left. For instance, choosing 'Terrorism' drops the results down to about 85, 'Taliban' to around 70 articles.

Don't use more than one - if you want to look at several of the subtopics enter the keywords on the second search line with OR between them:

The search
GE Pakistan AND (terror* OR taliban OR qaida) provides over 350 full text articles; if instead you narrowed with all three subject terms you would only find one article!

ProQuest

GEO(pakistan) AND (mumbai or lashkar*) - over 350 full text articles dealing with Pakistan and the attacks in Mumbai, India blamed on the radical group Lashkar-e-Taiba (truncated due to variant spellings).

GEO(pakistan) AND GEO(afghanistan) - over 2000 full text articles

Reference

Country Profile: Pakistan Facts on File World News Digest. Includes many links to articles as well as facts, history.

Long, Roger D. "Pakistan" Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern World. Ed Peter N. Stearns. Oxford UP, 2008.

25 scholarly reference articles on Pakistan in Gale Virtual Reference, including an 18 page article from the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations 11th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004.

"Pakistan: Recent History." Europa World. Regularly updated.

Books - Ebrary

Cohen, Stephen P. Idea of Pakistan. Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Jones, Owen Bennett. Pakistan : Eye of the Storm. Yale UP, 2003.

Web

United States. Natl. Counterterrorism Center."Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT or LeT; Army of the Righteous)." 2008 Counterterrorism Calendar.

ED135 Brouns Globalization

How has globalization changed the world and especially the American workforce?

Online Reference Book
Vaidya, Ashish K. Globalization. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2005. History Reference Online.

CQ Researcher Reports
Cooper, Mary H. "Exporting Jobs." CQ Researcher 14.7 (2004): 149-172. CQ Researcher Online.
Katel, Peter. "Vanishing Jobs." CQ Researcher 19.10 (2009): 225-248. CQ Researcher Online.
Katel, Peter. Vanishing Jobs. [Weblog entry.] The CQ Researcher Blog. March 13, 2009.

Billitteri, Thomas J. "Middle-Class Squeeze." CQ Researcher 19.9 (2009): 201-224. CQ Researcher Online.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Global Food Crisis." CQ Researcher 18.24 (2008): 553-576. CQ Researcher Online.

Price, Tom. "Science in America." CQ Researcher 18.2 (2008): 25-48. CQ Researcher Online.


Articles from Sample EBSCO Searches
( global* or international compet* ) and american work*

( global* OR international compet* ) and ( america* or united states ) and workforce*

Articles from Sample ProQuest Search
SU(global*) AND (american work* or outsour*)

Additional Articles
Mandel, Michael. "ARE THEY GOOD FOR AMERICA :They're productive, innovative, and loaded with cash. But that doesn't mean they'll bail out the U.S. economy. " Business Week. 10 Mar. 2008: 41-46.

Gary Stoller. "Doing business abroad? Simple faux pas can sink you.:[FINAL Edition]. " USA TODAY. 24 Aug. 2007,B.1.

"Rich man, poor man." Economist 382.8512 (20 Jan. 2007): 15-16.

Stevens, Andrew. TRANSFORMING ECONOMIES, Our Times, Dec 2007/Jan 2008

Fact.com
Economic Downturn

Videos
Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
(Please watch the segment about world wealth)

Hans Rosling: New Insights on Poverty and Life around the World

Mind Science
(Scientists, with the help of Buddhist monks and the Dalai Lama, are unlocking mysteries of the brain.)
-Watch online
-Watch the DVD in Library
Library Location: Video (request at Circulation)
Call Number: QP363.3 .M552008

Beyond our Differences by writer/producer/director Peter Bisanz.
Library Location: Video (request at Circulation)
Call Number: BL48 .B49 2009

Books
The World is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century /
Thomas L. Friedman.
Library Location: Main Collection Call Number: HM846 .F74 2005

Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce (Executive Summary (PDF) and Standard Powerpoint(PDF) )
Location: Main Collection Call Number: HD5715.2 .N32 2007

Making globalization work
Location: Main Collection Call Number: HF1359 .S753 2006

Elephant and the dragon : the rise of India and China and what it means for all of us / Robyn Meredith. Meredith, Robyn. 2007
Library Location: New Books Call Number: HC435.3 .M47 2007

Globalization and free trade / Natalie Goldstein
Library Location: Main Collection Call Number: HF1418.5 .G645 2007

Rethinking globalization / Nick Bisley. Bisley, Nick, 1973- 2007
Library Location: New Books Call Number: JZ1318 .B573 2007

Jobs in America / edited by David Ramm. 2006
Library Location: Main Collection Call Number: HD5724 .J6873 2006 Status: Available

The Post-American World (ordered)

More CBC Library Books on Globalization or "Free Trade"

China-Olympics

Random Entries on Olympic Games from Britannica.com

ProQuest Articles
(china) AND (olympic*) AND (tibet*) (240+ newpaper & magazine articles)

(china) AND (olympic*) AND (politic*) AND AT(editorial) (30+ editorials)

EBSCO Articles
china and ( protest* or boycott* ) and olympic* (60+ articles)

Facts.com
"Key Issue: China." Facts On File World News Digest @ FACTS.com. Facts On File News Services. 9 Apr. 2008 .

"Tibet." Issues & Controversies On File 7 Sept. 2004. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services. 9 Apr. 2008 .

"China, Tibet and the 2008 Olympics." Cartoon. Facts On File World News Digest @ FACTS.com. Facts On File News Services. 9 Apr. 2008 .

CQ Researcher Reports
Katel, Peter. "Emerging China." CQ Researcher 15.40 (2005): 957-980.

CBC Library Catalog

china AND "human rights"

Tibet

Gale Virtual Reference
Gearon, Liam. "Human Rights and Religion." Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 6. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 4178-4182.

Kagan, Richard C. "China—Human Rights." Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Ed. Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. 517-520.

Websites

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

International Olympic Committee - Beijing 2008

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Torch Relay

Human Rights Watch. BEIJING 2008: CHINA'S OLYMPIAN HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGES

Rings: 2008 Beijing Olympics
A new blog from New York Times exploring the competition and politics behind the Summer Games in Beijing.

History 113 - Mexico Since Independence

EBSCOhost - Articles


Finds articles on the Zapatistas (or Chiapas), provided they deal with issues of trade/economics. Limiters insure that the articles are either available in paper or full text. View Results

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MLA Style Citation with Annotation.

Wallach, Lori. "Has the North American Free Trade Agreement Been A Success? Con." International Debates May 2005: 157-159. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Apr. 2007. Discusses the negative results of NAFTA in Mexico, including the Zapatista revolt in Chiapas. Very brief, no references, few dates, some useful quotes.

Books

Reference

Mexico : an encyclopedia of contemporary culture and history [F1234 .C67 2004]

Historical atlas of Central America [G1551 .S1H2 2003]

The Oxford encyclopedia of Mesoamerican cultures : the civilizations of Mexico and Central America [Reference F1218.6 .O95 2001 & Online]

Illegal immigration in America : a reference handbook [JV6483 .I53 1999]

Milenios de Mexico [F1204 .M955 1999]

The United States and Mexico at war : nineteenth-century expansionism and conflict [E404 .U66 1998]

The Cambridge history of Latin America [F1410 .C1834]

Reference Articles Online

Kirkwood, Burton. "The Aftermath of Independence, 1821–1876." from The History Of Mexico. Greenwood. 2000. in Daily Life Online. Also other sections in the same title.

"Mexico." Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 2004. p283-301. in Gale Virtual Reference Library.

"Mexico Country Profile: Recent History." in Europa World online. London: Routledge.

Main Collection – Call Number Areas

E184 - Hispanic/Latino/Chicano History
E404 - Mexican War (1846-48)
F1200+ - Mexico - History
JV6400+ - Immigration

Iraq War - 5 Year Anniversary

Articles

Articles from EBSCOhost

Editorials from EBSCOhost

Articles from ProQuest

World Special : Iraq, Afghanistan & the Reach of War. New York Times. Collection of articles with many multimedia and interactive special features.

FACTS.com

"Iraq War: A Guide to FACTS.com Coverage (2002- )." Facts On File World News Digest. 1 Mar. 2007.

Country Profile: Iraq. Facts On File World News Digest @ FACTS.com. Continuously updated with articles, documents, special features.

Bodenner, Chris. "Iraq War: Necessary Part of the Fight Against Terrorism or a War of Choice?." Issues & Controversies in American History. 4 Apr. 2006.

CQ Researcher:

Katel, Peter. "Cost of the Iraq War." 25 Apr. 2008.

Katel, Peter. "New Strategy in Iraq". 23 Feb. 2007.

Books

Books on Iraq in the CBC Library Catalog

Reference

Articles on Iraq (primarily background) from 4 encyclopedias in the History & Culture subcollection of Gale Virtual Reference.

Websites

United States. Dept. of Defense. Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq. Quarterly report to Congress.

Iraq Coalition Casualties List

Iraq. Topic. National Public Radio.

Iran

Katel, Peter. "U.S. Policy on Iran." CQ Researcher 17.41 (2007): 961-984.
Would a nuclear-armed Iran endanger the United States?
The Bush administration is turning up the heat on Iran. In October President Bush said Iran's nuclear program raised the specter of World War III. Then Vice President Cheney warned of "serious consequences" if Iran stayed on course as a "terror-supporting state." The heated rhetoric is widely seen as calculated to raise the specter of military action against Iran. Indeed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls the United States an international bully that's keeping Iraq violent to justify continued occupation. He also vows to maintain Iran's nuclear development program, which he says is not for creating weapons. But many observers — Israelis particularly — see the effort as a grave threat, prompting some U.S. hawks to advocate a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Other Iran-watchers say military action could further endanger U.S. forces fighting next door in Iraq. They urge the administration to aid dissidents rather than counter Iran by military force.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.
Reference
"Country Profile: Iran." FACTS.com. Includes links to key news events 1940-present from the Facts on File World News Digest.
"Iran." Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. 11th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2004.
Ashraf, Ahmad. "Iran." Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Philip Mattar. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan, 2004.

Articles
Iran and Iraq - EBSCOhost, 600+ articles
Iran and Nuclear - EBSCOhost, 500+ articles
Iran and United States and relations - EBSCOhost, 1000+ articles
Books
Keyword: Iran - CBC Library Catalog, 90+ titles.
Search results include related titles such as The Shia Revival : How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr (Norton, 2007).
Subject: Iran - CBC Library Catalog, 70+ titles.

Should museums return relics to their country of origin?

Should museums return relics to their country of origin?
Bettelheim, A., & Adams, R. “Stolen antiquities.” CQ Researcher 17.14 (2007): 313-336. CQ Press. 13 April 2007.
An ancient vase at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is fueling an intensifying ethical and legal debate about some of the world's most celebrated works of art. Two years ago, Italian authorities produced evidence the ancient vessel had been smuggled from Italy and demanded its return. Such prized artifacts have raised thorny questions about the ownership of cultural treasures in private collections and museums around the world. The controversy — and attendant criminal trials of alleged smugglers — is also shedding new light on the secretive world of antiquities collecting — a realm populated by tomb robbers, wealthy connoisseurs and aggressive dealers and curators. Some experts estimate that up to $4 billion worth of precious art is being illegally traded. Whatever their worth, ancient artworks are priceless to Italy, Egypt and other nations increasingly using cultural artifacts to exert political leverage and stoke national pride. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Books in CBC Library Collection

Feldman, Mark. Archaeology for everyone. New York: Quadrangle, c1977.
Location: Main Collection
Call number: CC75.5 .F44 1977

The dead and their possessions: repatriation in principle, policy and practice. Ed. Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert and Paul Turnbull. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Location: Main Collection
Call number: CC79.5 .H85D43 2002

Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Grave injustice: the American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, c2002.
Location: Reserve Reference
Call number: KF8210 .A57F56 2002

Reid, Donald M. Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002.
Location: American Council of Learned Societies History E-Book Project

Sullivan, Lynne P. and S. Terry Childs. Curating archaeological collections: from the field to the repository. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 2003.
Location: Main Collection
Call number: CC75.7 .A73 2003 v6

Articles

Kahn, Jeremy. “Is the U.S. protecting foreign artifacts? Don’t ask.” New York Times (8 April 2007): 2.26. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

The Cultural Property Advisory Committee has been the focus of fierce battles between archaeologists, who say the art market fosters the looting of historic sites, and dealers, who say that broad import restrictions threaten collecting by private individuals and museums in the United States. Is the Committee making appropriate decisions to help other countries protect their cultural heritage?

McGuigan, Cathleen. “Whose art is it? American museums are returning some of the world’s great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.” Newsweek 149.10 (12 Mar. 2007): 54. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

Museum directors are seeking a legal way to purchase foreign antiquities. Many artifacts purchased in the past have been stolen or looted; now, citing national pride, some governments are demanding them back.

Briggs, Aaron Kyle. “Consequences of the Met-Italy Accord for the nternational restitution of cultural property.” Chicago Journal of International Law 7.2 (Winter 2007): 623-654. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

In February 2006, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Italian Ministry of Culture signed the Italy-Met Euphronios Accord, forever changing the dynamics of the international cultural property trade.

“Getty Museum agrees to return two Greek treasures.” Washington Post (12 Dec. 2006): C.8. ProQuest. Columbia Basin Coll. Lib., Pasco, WA. 14 April 2007.

The J. Paul Getty Museum has settled a decade-old cultural heritage dispute with Greece, agreeing to hand over two ancient treasures that Athens claimed had been illegally spirited out of the country, as Greece steps up its campaign to reclaim looted artifacts, thousands of which are prominently displayed in museums and collections worldwide.