The Israel-Palestine Conflict

James L. Gelvin is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of California, Los Angeles. A specialist in the modern social and cultural history of the Arab East, he is author of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know (2017), The Modern Middle East: A History (2020), editor of The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval (2021), and co-editor of Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, 1850-1930 (2013). His books have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, and Polish. In 2015, Gelvin received the Middle East Studies Association's Undergraduate Education Award.

'Gelvin's book, with maps, illustrations, a glossary, thumbnail biographies, and a lean, well-chosen list of suggestions for further reading, fits the genre of the academic textbook at its best. Gelvin sets out the historical context in which Israeli nationalism and Palestinian nationalism have met and contended (and still contend) … Balanced, fair, and readable, this is a fine historical synthesis.' L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs

• Preface; Author's Note to Previous Editions; 1. The Land and its Lure; 2. Cultures of Nationalism; 3 Zionism and the Colonization of Palestine; 4. World War I and the Palestine Mandate; 5 From Nationalism in Palestine to Palestinian Nationalism; 6 From the Great Revolt through the 1948 War; 7. Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism: A Closer Look; 8 The Arab-Israeli Conflict; 9 The Palestinian National Movement Comes of Age; 10 Coming Full Circle: The Era of Oslo; Glossary; Time Line of Events; Biographical Sketches; Index.