Caught in Crossfire: Civilians in Conflicts in the Middle East

Civilians continue to be the principal victims of inter-state, intra-state, and internal wars and, as Kumaraswamy (Middle East politics, Jawaharlal Nehru U., India) observes, the Middle East is no exception. He presents nine papers that explore how conflicts in the Middle East have impacted the lives of civilians. Chapters discuss the internal differences within Arab communities during the 1948 Israeli-Arab war, the daily suffering of Palestinian civilians during the al-Aqsa Intifada as reported by renowned Israeli reporter Amira Hass, fears and trepidations among Israeli civilians in the days running up to the June 1967 war and the October 1973 war, the impact of the Lebanese civil war on different segments of the population, the role of the populace in the Iranian Islamic Revolution, the impact of Iraq's invasion on Kuwaiti civilians, the consequences of the sanction regime of the 1990s on the civilians of Iraq, and the impact of violence in American-occupied Iraq on different segments of the population. Distributed in North America by ISBS. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)