This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in...

Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social,...

"What is so striking about Morris' work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone's prejudices, least of all his own", David Remnick remarked in a New Yorker article that coincided with the publication of Benny Morris' "1948: A History of the...