As the U.S. assault on Iran rages, we asked our resident Middle East expert Alex Boodrookas to provide some historical perspective. Dr. Boodrookas is an Assistant Professor of History at MSU Denver specializing in the Modern Middle East; Labor History; Immigration; Decolonization. His book is published this April by Stanford University Press and is entitled Comrades Estranged: Labor and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Persian Gulf.

Dr. Boodrookas has shared a helpful list of resources and a timeline of major events to accompany this podcast.

READING LIST | THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL & PALESTINE

BOOKS & ARTICLES

• Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, “Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” MERIP. A clear,

reliable, article-length overview of the conflict ...