1. Arab Revolt (1916 - 1918)
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   Was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen.
2. The Case Against Israel
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
3. Devsirme
   Wikipedia article
   Resource Type: Article
   Devsirme (literally collecting in Turkish) was chiefly the practice by which the Ottoman Empire took sons from their Balkan Christian every year. They were then converted to Islam with the primary objective of using them for the military or civil service of the Empire.
4. From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
5. A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1987
   Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
   
6. A Marxist History of the World part 66: The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Neil Faulkner looks at how the revolution that began in Turkey in 1908 initiated a process that would transform the middle east over the following two decades.
7. The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
   Resource Type: Book
   
8. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   
9. A People's History of the World
   From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
10. 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies.

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