How to bone up on Mideast history- lecture series

[greenman3610]

I found a lecture series for purchase online that
is really helping me get perspective on what we
are seeing in the mideast.
Audio download 34.95 -
pop it on your computer or ipod.
pdf outline provided.
Got it for my wife who teaches Eastern Hemisphere,
but am listening myself while driving, working, etc.

Great for understanding the big events,
Balfour declaration, King David hotel bombing, Suez Crisis,
Creation of Israel...

http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=8593&id=8593&d=United+States+and+the+Middle+East%3A+1914+to+9%2F11&pc=History%20-%20Modern
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United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11
(24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 8593

Taught by Salim Yaqub
University of California at Santa Barbara
Ph.D., Yale University

Step by step, with attention to the viewpoints and motivations of each nation and leader involved, the course explores, over a 90-year span:

-growing American involvement in the Middle East
-the ongoing quest for political independence and self-mastery by Middle Easterners
-the difficulty the U.S. has experienced in weighing diverse and conflicting objectives in the region, especially as the Cold War against the Soviet Union intensified
-the increasing antagonism between Americans and Middle Easterners that came to such a shocking culmination on September 11, 2001.

Over and over again, these themes surface, expressed in the actions of characters in a history still being written as we watch. America's presidents from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush. George Kennan. David Ben-Gurion. Gamal Abdel Nasser. Mohammed Shah Pahlavi. Ariel Sharon. Yasser Arafat. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Menachem Begin. Saddam Hussein.

[ThomWV]

1. "The Teaching Company" Is Outstanding

I listen to their series of lectures all the time in my truck. I have dozens of their series. They are outstanding.

Here is the way to get them though. They are for sale on E-Bay all the time. Buy one, listen to it a few times, then resell it. Think of E-Bay as a library (for those who have never seen a library its a pretty interesting concept - you get to learn for free).

There are hundreds of titles and I've never run across one that was bad; in fact only one that disappointed at all, and even in that case I certainly learned quite a bit.

Buy them, they are well worth the money.

[RobertDevereaux]

2. Ditto re kudos for teach12.com...

Available in DVD as well as audio.

Buy them at their deep discount, which always happens when they've new, then frequently throughout the year.

Robert Greenberg is outstanding for their music courses.

In eight courses, I've only been disappointed in one, and they promptly provide a full refund.

[The_Warmth]

3. Thank you!

Going to give it a listen later today, keep on posting!

[BeachBuckeye]

4. I completely agree

I bought this series 6 months ago and have found it to be the best Middle-East educational tool you could possibly have. The lectures are given in a manner that anyone could understand and digest. Its a great value.