I see this forum hasn't been updated in a while but I'm hoping that someone checks it from time to time! I'm looking for book recommendations on the Middle East conflict, specifically Gaza and Israel although I'm sure a wider perspective would be helpful as well. I have read a lot of fiction based on the issues but they were primarily from a Christian-Zionist viewpoint and I'm sure that isn't the whole story. My niece would also appreciate books about the same thing but for a much younger audience: her children are 9 and 6. Thanks so much!
Not purely confined to Israel and Palestine, but Robert Fisk's 'The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East', despite being a weighty tome, is fantastic - informative and a real eye-opener. I really can't recommend it enough.
The series of Omar Yussef books by Matt Beynon Rees take place in that area. They're fiction, mysteries though the murder solving probably takes the backseat to daily life and troubles.
I read the first "The Bethlehem Murders", it was written from a Palestinian-side viewpoint but not particularly with an axe to grind IMO, except against general human stupidity, fanatism and the consequences of war.
