1. The Anglican Church of Canada
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
2. Bertrand Russell's Last Message
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1970
   No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
3. Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2006
   The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
4. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
   An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2007
   The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
5. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Website
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
6. The Common Good
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
7. Connexions Digest
   Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1989
   
8. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1989
   
9. Connexions Digest
   Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1991
   
10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
11. Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
12. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Jewish studies, Maxime Rodinson says in this book, has been a field in which ideological delirium has long had virtually free rein. In this collection of essays, he tries to redress the balance, bringing his expertise to bear on Jewish problems past and present.
13. Dynamic downtown Toronto venue to celebrate one year of arts and culture for peace and justice
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Beit Zatoun ( House of Olive), an art gallery and culture space in downtown Toronto, is celebrating its first anniversary! Already, Beit Zatoun has made its mark on the landscape, having been adopted by Toronto's activist and culture community.
14. Encyclopaedia of Islam
    New Editon
    Resource Type: Book
    
15. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
    
16. The Fateful Triangle
    Israel, the United States and the Palestinians
    Resource Type: Book
    Chomsky examines how Israel has systematically tried to eradicate the Palestinians as a political, national and cultural entity by stealing their land, invasion and occupation and how this has been made possible by U.S. aid.
17. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
18. For Lust of Knowing
    The Orientalists and their enemies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
19. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
20. The Great War for Civilisation
    The Conquest of the Middle East
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Fisk explores a number of key themes in the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.
21. Headscarves and Hymens
    Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    A condemnation of the repressive political, cultural, and religious forces that reduce millions of women to second-class citizens.
22. Hegemony or Survival
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
23. 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.
    
24. If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
25. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
26. IFJ Puts Ethical Journalism on Middle East Media Agenda
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched a programme of work to strengthen ethical and independent journalism in the Middle East with the opening of a regional office in Bahrain.
27. Iraq's greatest danger yet: collapse of 'world's most dangerous dam'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    As if Iraq has not suffered enough under Saddam Hussein, the vicious UN sanctions regime, the US-UK occupation and the depradations of Daesh, a new threat looms that could kill a million people or more, and destroy Baghdad and a string of other cities along the Tigris river. The porous rocks beneath the Mosul dam are dissolving away and the entire edifice could collapse at any moment, releasing 11 cubic kilometres of water.
28. Islamic Peril
    Media And Global Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
29. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
30. Keeping the Record Straight: About Noam Chomsky's Trip to the Middle East in May 2010
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    
31. Killing Hope
    U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Chile, Cuba, Vietnam, to name a few), and for those who want to learn about lesser-known efforts (France, China, Bolivia, Brazil, for example), this book provides a window on what U.S. foreign policy goals really are. "If you flip over the rock of American foreign policy of the past century, this is what crawls out… invasions … bombings … overthrowing governments … occupations … suppressing movements for social change … assassinating political leaders … perverting elections … manipulating labor unions … manufacturing “news” … death squads … torture … biological warfare … depleted uranium … drug trafficking … mercenaries … It’s not a pretty picture. It’s enough to give imperialism a bad name."
32. Launch of Middle East Gender Study Marks International Women's Day
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Women journalists representing 15 journalists# unions of the International Federation of Journalists from across the Arab World and Middle East gathered in Al Manama-Bahrain to mark International Women#s Day.
33. Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
34. Letters from Lexington
    Reflections on Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
35. Life as Politics
    How Ordinary People Change the Middle East
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    Asef Bayat reveals how under the shadow of the authoritarian rule, religious moral authorities, and economic elites, ordinary people can make meaningful change through the practices of everyday life.
36. Machsom Watch
    Resource Type: Website
    Israeli women's organization which monitors the behaviour of Israeli soldiers and police at checkpoints and which attempts to ensure that the human and civil rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are protected.
    
37. Mainspring of the Arab Revolt
    A review of Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This book ought to be read — or better, studied — by every socialist interested in the Middle East.
38. A Marxist History of the World part 22: Arabs, Persians, and Byzantines
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    This week Neil Faulkner describes the rise and explosive spread of the third great monotheistic religion, where compassion, charity, and protection became moral imperatives - Islam.
39. A Marxist History of the World part 23: The Abbasid Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Islam created a single overarching allegiance throughout the Arab-ruled world yet the Middle East came to be a divided region of weak and unpopular states. Neil Faulkner looks at the conflicts that lay behind this process.
40. 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.
41. Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
42. Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
43. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
44. No Easy Victories
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
45. On Oil and Quicksand
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
46. The Only House Left Standing
    The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A journey through the life and thoughts of the late Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003.
47. Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
    
48. Peace in the Middle East?
    Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    An analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict arguing for socialist bi-nationalism as the way out of the morass.
49. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
50. Press for Conversion #51
    May 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2003
    Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
51. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
52. Radical Priorities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    Otero presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky's social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky's politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
53. Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
    
54. Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
55. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
56. Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
57. Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
58. Stop That Shit
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
59. Towards a New Cold War
    Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
60. Trump's War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Although precise numbers are difficult to obtain, there seems little question that the number of civilians being killed by the U.S. in Iraq and Syria -- already quite high under Obama -- has increased precipitously during the first two months of the Trump administration.
61. United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1967
    
62. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
63. War in the Gulf
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
64. War in the Gulf
    An Environmental Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
65. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
66. World Vision Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
67. Zatoun
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    

Experts on Middle East in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada
2. League of Arab States
3. World Digital Library
4. Zatoun