English Novels About Arabs (1973-1998) :

An Annotated  Bibliography

Abstract

Literature has always played a significant role in shaping public opinion and influencing decision making in the West. This is particularly true in maintaining an unsympathetic attitude towards the Arabs and the Muslims.  By propagating certain myths and exaggerations about the Arabs, some of the Western novelists, consciously or unconsciously, have reinforced a hostile public thinking about the Arabs. The absence of works that address and refute these myths made things worse for the misinformed public in the West. By listing and providing some information about some of these novels, the present bibliography encourages interested researchers to address and study these books.

The great difficulties of finding information and/or locating novels about Arabs or Arab countries have led to the compilation this bibliography which covers a span of twenty-five years beginning with 1973 and ending with 1998. It includes novels written originally in English with no translations at all. The Novels are simply listed in a chronological order beginning with the books of 1973 and ending with those of 1998. Most of the novels are followed by short summaries of their plots or a statement about their themes. It is also indicated if there is a later edition or a reprint. During each single year, the entries are arranged alphabetically by author, and at the end of the bibliography there are three indices: a title index , an author index and an index for the locations mentioned in the bibliography.

الرويات التي كتبت عن العرب باللغة الإنجليزية ( 1973 – 1998 م )

سرد مفرود بالحواشي

ملخص

منذ العصور الوسطى والأدب يلعب دوراً رئيساً في نشر الصور النمطية السيئة عن العرب والمسلمين بين القراء في الغرب. وقد لاقت الروايات التي تسئ للعرب رواجاً كبيراً في العقود الثلاثة الماضية وأصبحت تتصدر مبيعات الكتب في وقتٍ يكثر فيه الحديث عن العولمة والسلام العالمي. وفي ظل غياب الأعمال المنصفة للعرب فإن هذه الروايات سيكون لها دورٌ كبيرٌ في تكريس الصورة القاتمة للعرب وعالمهم في أذهان القراء في الغرب. ونظراً للحاجة الملحة إلى الإطلاع على هذه الأعمال وتصحيح ما فيها من مغالطات فإن الحاجة ماسةٌ إلى عملٍ يحوي المعلومات اللازمة عن هذه الروايات ويقدم نبذةً  مختصرة عن محتوى تلك الكتب ليكون ذلك في متناول الباحثين والمهتمين بهذا المجال مستقبلاً. البحث الذي بين أيدينا يجمع الروايات التي تعرضت للعرب وقد نشرت بين 1973م - 1998م باللغة الإنجليزية أصلاً ولا يشمل الأعمال المترجمة .

 وقد  رتبت هذه الروايات حسب التسلسل الزمني مبتدئاً بالروايات التي نشرت في عام 1973 و منتهياً بالأعمال التي صدرت في 1998 علماً بأني بعد ذلك رتبت  الروايات الخاصة بكل عام ترتيباً أبجدياً. لا بد من الإشارة أن هناك بعض الروايات التي لم أتمكن بعد من الحصول على شرحٍ عنها ولكني أوردتها لتعم الفائدة  وهناك في آخر البحث ثلاث فهارس: أحدها يختص بأسماء المؤلفين والثاني بحسب عنوان الرواية والأخير للأماكن المذكورة في ثنايا الدراسة.

Introduction

The differences in cultural and religious backgrounds and the confrontations in battles  have all contributed to the development of a hostile Western attitude towards the Arabs and the Muslims. Unfortunately, literature played a significant role in aggravating these differences by propagating distorted , negative images of the Arab and the Muslim world. A closer look at  these demeaning images  reveals a persistent  absence of logic and a great tendency to exaggerate and falsify. It will be tedious to go over examples from all centuries but it suffices to mention some of the earliest distortions. For instance, in Medieval literature, the Arabs were referred to as “heretics”, “heathens” and “Saracens”. In “Chansons De Geste”, popular songs of the Middle Ages, the Saracens, meaning the Arabs, are presented as people who:

Spend their lives in hating and mocking at Christ and destroying his churches, they hate God and constantly placing themselves under the protection of Satan….[M]any of them are giants, whole tribes have horns on their heads, others are black as devils. They rush into battle making noises comparable to the barking of dogs…they use slaves, they eat their prisoners, they buy and sell their womenfolk and they practice polygamy…1

The absence of logic and the distortion of reality are  very obvious in the above quoted lines. Describing the Muslims as people who hate and mock Christ, destroy churches, hate God, place themselves under the protection of Satan are all attempts to arouse the anger and abhorrence of the Christian  readers. That the Arabs have horns, eat their prisoners and sell their womenfolk are attempts to ridicule them and deprive them of their humanity.

Two more significant works should be mentioned  in this regards:  Dante’s Divine Comedy (1310) and Marlow’s Tumberlaine (1590). The former contributed a great deal to the defamation of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and his followers. Dante placed the Prophet (Peace be upon him) near the bottom of the Inferno, below the lustful, the gluttonous, and the heretical. Prejudices of the Middle Ages became more consolidated in the Elizabethan Literature which emphasized  sensuality”, “cruelty”, and “lack of restraint” as the main characteristics of the “Turks”. In Marlow’s Tumberlaine, the Arab betrays his own gods if they do not fulfill his material and wordly ambitions. The “cruelty”, “sensuality” and “inability to restrain” found in Tumberlaine are still common themes in novels about the Arabs.

However, the present day interest in the Arab world is closely connected with the political, strategic and economic significance of the region. The Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the anxiety about the supply of oil, the Iranian Revolution, the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut and finally the late Gulf War increased the interest of the Western readers in the area. The Arabs and their homeland have become an interesting subject for popular literature. Unfortunately, however, due to political considerations and ignorance about the Arab culture, most of the novelists resorted to stereotypes which “provide a convenient shorthand in the identification of a particular group.”1 Thus, to the Western readers the Arab world has become synonymous with danger and threat. Some of the common themes of these novels are: the Arabs as terrorists, the animosity of the Arabs towards Israel,  the United States and the whole world, Arabs’  attempts to unite against the West, and the importance of controlling the Arab oil fields. Over the years, the myths and the exaggerations propagated by these literary works have become part and parcel of the West’s attitude towards the Arabs. President John F. Kennedy is right when he notes that “the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, continuous and dishonest — but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic”.

With so much talk about Globalization and World Peace at the beginning of the twenty first century, it is high time that the Arabs take more positive steps toward dispelling such myths which eventually will have unfavorable effects on political, economic, and military decisions concerning the Arab world. Since the things we read become part of our philosophy and shape our perception of things, more should be done towards understanding the nature of the works which contributed towards the making of the mentality of the present day Western reader. In other words, the contemporary Western attitude towards the Arabs is, in part, a result of habitual reading of works which are unfair to the Arabs. Due to its popularity, the novel, in all its sub-genres, is the literary form that has done most of the damage to the image of the Arabs in the West. A look at excerpts from some of these books is adequate to show the amount of misinformation and brainwashing that has, consciously or unconsciously, been done to generations of popular fiction Western readers in regards to the Arab or Muslim world.

Most of the novels of the seventies, for instance, portray the Arabs as enemies not only of the U.S. and Israel but also of the whole world in general. In Thirty-Four East (1976), for example, the Arabs kidnap the U.S. Vice-President and in The Tripoli Documents (1976) an Arab professor at Columbia University plots to kill the U. S. Secretary of State. In Year of the Golden Ape (1974) Arab terrorists place a nuclear device aboard a ship in San Francisco and in Black Sunday (1975) they plan to blow up the Super Bowl. In Goodbye California (1977) a Muslim group threatens to detonate atomic bombs that will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, and the sliding of California into the pacific. Other novels portray the Arabs as a permanent threat for Israel. In The Baghdad Defection (1973) the Arabs acquire German bacteriological weapons to use against the Jews and in A Clash of Hawks (1975) the Arabs are seen waging a holy war against Israel.  In Saladin (1976) they plan to blow up the Israeli Intelligence Building and Thunderstrike in Syria (1979) shows the Syrians threatening to destroy the whole Jewish state. On the other hand, there are novels written to justify whatever means Israel takes to protect its settlements. Examples of this kind are novels like The Masada Plan. (1978) and Triple (1979); both offer a sympathetic account of Israel’s efforts  to develop nuclear weapons.

Some novels of the 1970s show that Arab terrorism goes beyond the U. S. and Israel. In Monsieur or, The Prince of Darkness (1974) Arabs carry out ritual murders throughout Europe and in 1975 Israeli Commandos show the Arabs plotting to blow up European targets. Significantly, it is always the Israelis who frustrate the plans of the Arab terrorists. In Dead Runner (1977) Heathrow Airport is held hostage by Arab terrorists while in The Aleph Solution (1978) the Palestinians plan to take over the United Nations and hold the whole world hostage. As usual, a brave Israeli foils the plan and saves the world. In The Hand of Fatima (1979) the Libyans pay European girls to carry bombs onto planes.

In addition to these common themes, the novels of the eighties suggest the West’s recognition of their dependence on the Arab oil and their fear of being, someday, under the mercy of united Arab or Muslim power. The resurgent Islam seems to have fueled this fear. In Green Monday (1980) greedy rich Arabs use advanced technology to cut the prices of crude oil thus pulling the rug from under a U. S. President. In Jihad (1981) the Arabs unite with the Iranians in a war against the world economy. That the West is concerned about the safety of the oil fields is more obvious in novels like The Gulf Scenario (1984) in which Americans have to interfere to frustrate Pakistani attempt to take over Arabian oil fields. In the same year (1984) the Zero-Hour Strike Force appears in which the Americans create a fake war between Israel and Saudi Arabia in order to intervene and seize the oil fields in the eastern part of the Kingdom. The lack of a practical substitute for oil seems to have distressed the people in the West. The Apocalypse Brigade(1981) dramatizes “wishful thinking” because it shows the United States’ attempt to disrupt oil production and replace it with a synthetic product. Their dependence on Arab oil becomes more distressing when the westerners consider the possibility of united Arab super power.

The concept of a united Arab world is also suggested in the publishing, in the eighties, of four novels dealing with the Islamic idea of the Mahdi. The first one is The Mahdi (1981) in which the Western intelligence services plant their own agent in Saudi Arabia and present him as the awaited Islamic Mahdi. In this way they hope  to guarantee full control of the Islamic world. A 1982 publication, Tongues of Fire presents another Mahdi who is created by an Orientalist and let loose in the Sudan. In 1983, The Last of Days portrays the Mahdi threatening to destroy Israel with nuclear weapons and in 1984 Day of the Mahdi shows a Mahdi who plans to unite the Arabs under the leadership of General Qaddafi. The political bias in these books would be hard to miss. In addition to stereotyping the Arabs, they suggest the latent Western fear of a possible unity among Arabs.

The novels of the nineties are dominated by themes related to the Second Gulf War. The Invasion of Kuwait seems to have renewed the West’s anxiety over oil resources. In Jihad: World War in 2036 (1995) The Faithful, a group of North African Islamic nations, plan to bring the world to its knees by seizing the oil resources of the Middle East. In The Enemy Within (1996) an Iranian general grabs the power and annexes the oil fields of the Arabs. The Americans employ a Delta Force on a raid to assassinate the general and free the oil resources. In Pope Patrick.(1997) the writer highlights tension  between the West and the resurgent Islam, which now controls the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

However, most of the books of the nineties deal with a number of themes related to Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Assassination of political leaders is one theme. In Shadow Over Babylon. (1993) a U.S. security expert agrees to take on the assassination  of Saddam Hussein for a $ 10 million pay off.  In The Last Inauguration (1998) it is Saddam Hussein who orders the assassination of the U.S. president. Another theme is the frightening reality of Iraq’s military abilities. The Fist of God (1994) suggests that Saddam has a doomsday weapon he is planning to use against the Coalition Allies when they launch Operation Desert Storm. Even after the war, the West continues to tell its people that Saddam is still a threat to the West. In Ultimatum (1994) we learn that it is impossible to thwart Saddam Hussein's attempts to revenge himself because this time Iraq has the A-bomb. It is suggested that Iraq is rebuilding its military capabilities. Bomb Grade (1997) shows how Russian local gangsters plan to send to Iraq enough plutonium to make three dozen atom bombs. Field  of Thunder (1998) shows a CIA agent  on a mission to destroy Iraqi biological weapons.  The last theme related to Iraq in the novels of the 90’s is Saddam Hussein’s terrifying acts to revenge himself. In Retribution (1995) he  teams up  with the mob to smuggle three atom bombs into the U.S. to drop them on its cities. In The Cobweb (1996) Iraqi agents are shown preparing  biological terror in the U. S. In Nimitz Class ((1997) an Iraqi submariner is accused of bringing down an enormous nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea.

The inflow of such popular novels reinforces the negative image of the Arabs which has become part of the Western readers’ philosophy and perception of what an Arab is. In the absence of books that do justice to the Arabs or the Arab world, these popular novels will certainly deepen Western prejudices about not only the Arabs but the whole Muslim world. This bibliography is an attempt to make these novels available for future research. It certainly compliments two valuable predecessors, albeit limited ones. The first one is Arabs in Popular Fiction Published in the U.S.A (1919-1973): An Annotated Bibliography by Dr. Muhammad Mansour Abahsain (1987).  However, Abahsain’s study is limited to “popular fiction” which is “published in the U.S.A.” between 1919 and 1973.  The second is the list which Reeva Simon provides in her valuable study titled The Middle East in Crime Fiction: Mysteries, Spy Novels and Thrillers from 1916 to the 1980’s. Obviously, this last study is confined to crime fiction and it does not include books beyond 1987.

The present bibliography covers the twenty-five years between 1973 and 1998. The former year is very significant because it is associated with the oil embargo which made real the ever haunting fear of an Arab oil shut off. The scope of this study is certainly wider than its predecessors: it includes both popular fiction  and well-established works published in the U.S. or elsewhere. The so called “sensational novels” are included because of two reasons. First, they are no longer looked down upon since the circle of its readers has widened tremendously to include well-educated people. Reeva Simon asserts that:

The sudden, obvious popularity of thrillers and spy novels has recently begun to pique scholarly interest over a literary genre hitherto not taken seriously but labeled grossly as “pulp” literature….more than one quarter of all fiction books published each year are “sensational” novels….more people read Ian Fleming, Robert Ludlum, and Helen MacInnes than have ever read Shakespeare or Flaubert.2

The second reason for including these novels is that they are just as influential in the formation of the readers’ perception about Arabs. Indeed, Janice Terry in her book Mistaken Identity,   asserts that because these novels are sold almost everywhere, jacked in eye-catching covers and extensively publicized in daily newspapers, they “affect public opinion far more than works that might have more literary or scholarly merit”.3

Only works written originally in English are included. It would have been impossible to include works translated from different languages into English. In the body of the bibliography, the novels are simply listed chronologically beginning with 1973 and going on to 1998. for each year, the novels are arranged alphabetically by author. Most of the novels are followed by a short description of their main themes or brief summary of the plot. Finally, there are author and title indices at the end of the study. It is hoped that this bibliography may help guide future research about the portrayal of Arabs in English literature.

1973

Dewar, Evelyn. Perfumes of Arabia. London: Bles, 1973.

Murder and politics in an oil company town in Saudi Arabia.

Erdman, Paul, E. The Billion Dollar Sure Thing. New York: Scribner, 1973. Berkley Publishing, 1988.

In a time when the dollar is declining, an American who handles Mafia accounts switches to investment of Arab money when he devises a scheme to make billions.

Evans, Kenneth. A Rich Way to Die. London: Hale, 1973.

In Arabia, an Englishman discovers a plot to dump counterfeit currency in Britain.

Gilbert, Michael. The Ninety-Second Tiger. London: Hodder, 1973.

Trying to avoid a coup, an Arabian sheikh uses his TV adventure hero as a real advisor.

Holt, Victoria. The Curse of the Kings.  London: Collins, 1973.

Keller, Beverly. The Baghdad Defection. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973.

Iraq leads the Arabs in a war against Israel. German scientists help the Arabs use bacteriological weapons against the Jews.

Mannin, Ethel. Mission to Beirut.  London: Hutchinson, 1973.

Mason, Colin. Hostage. London: Macmillan, 1973; New York: Walker, 1973.

In retaliation to the Assassination of Moshe Dayan by the Arabs, right wing Israeli generals decide to blow up Cairo.

1974

Coppel, Alfred. Thirty-Four East.  London: Macmillan, 1974. Pan Books, 1976. 

A group of Arabs kidnap the U.S. Vice-President whose plane has crashed in the Sinai desert.

Dickinson, Peter.  The Poison Oracle. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974.

In a contemporary Arab kingdom, the threat of open warfare over oil rights leads to the murder of the sultan and his bodyguard. Only the chimp knows who did it.

Durrell, Lawrence. Monsieur or, The Prince of Darkness : a Novel. New York: Viking, 1974; London, Faber, 1976.

A strange Arab banker leads a cult of Gnostics to carry out a number of  ritual murders in France, Italy, and Egypt.

Epton, Nina Consuelo. The Burning Heart: a Novel Based on the Life of Jane Digby, Lady Ellenborough. London :Macdonald and Jane's, 1974.

Forbes, Colin [pseud.: Raymond H. Sawkins]. Year of the Golden Ape. London: Collins, 1974; New York: Dutton, 1974.

In order to stop the U. S. from arming Israel, a Saudi oil minister hires a Frenchman to place a nuclear device aboard a ship in San Francisco.

Tsiras, Strates. Drifting Cities. A Trilogy. New York: Knopf; [distributed by Random House], 1974. Athens, Greece : New York : Kedros ; Distributed in North America by Paul & Co. Publs. Consortium, 1995. [1st American ed.]

1975

Black, Lionel [pseud.: Dudley Barker]. Arafat is Next. London: Collins, 1975; New York: Stein and day, 1975. Day Books, 1980.

British agents attempt to assassinate Arafat in retaliation for the death of one of their friends killed by a bomb set by Palestinians.

Bowles, Paul.  Three tales. New York: F. Hallman, 1975.

Charles, Robert. A Clash of Hawks. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1975. F. A. Thorpe, 1995.

The Arabs are waging a holy war against Israel, but Israel wins because it has the atomic bomb and is militarily superior.

Christian, John. Five Gates to Amageddon. London: Harwood-Smart; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975.

A retired U. S. Air force pilot foils a plan by an Israeli war hero to drop a neutron Bomb on the Aswan dam.

Haddad, C. A. The Moroccan. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. W.H. Allen, 1977.

The Moroccan-born Judah Biton penetrates PLO operations in Lebanon for Israeli intelligence.

Harris, Thomas. Black Sunday. New York: Putnaml, 1975. London: Hodder, 1975.  Screen Play, 1975. Paramount  Home Video, 1994. 

In retaliation for American aid to Israel, an Arab group has determined to blow up the Super Bowl.

Mather, Berkely. With Extreme Prejudice. London: Collins, 1975;  New York: Scribner’s, 1976.

A British agent is looking for a criminal combine responsible for a number of airline hijackings. He starts out at the Suez Canal and ends up in Cyprus in the middle of a war between Greece and Turkey.

Sugar, Andrew. Israeli Commandos. New York; Manor , 1975.

Israeli agents foil an Arab attempt to blow up targets in Europe.

Tannous, Peter, and Paul Rubinstein. The Petrodollar Takeover. New York: Putnam, 1975; London: Deutsch, 1976.

The Saudis plot to purchase General Motors.

Thompson, Anne Armstrong. Message from Absalom. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. Sevenoaks: Coronet, 1977.

1976

Benedictus, David. The Rabbi’s Wife. London: Blond, 1976. New York: M. Evans, 1976.

Arabs invade a London synagogue and kidnap the rabbi’s wife to a refugee camp in Lebanon.

Erdman, Paul, E. The Crash of '79. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976. Berkley Publishing,    1988.

The Arabs use oil embargo and their craftiness in money matters to rob the West.

Harris, Leonard. The Masada Plan. New York: Popular Library, 1978.

In response to a massive Arab attack, Israel decides to blow up several nuclear bombs strategically placed in several capitals.

Kane, Henry. The Tripoli Documents. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976; London: Hamlyn, 1979.

An Arab who is a professor at Columbia University plots to kill the U.S. secretary of state.

Osmond, Andrew. Saladin! New York: Doubleday, 1976. Bantam,  1979.

Palestinians within Israel plot to blow up the Israeli intelligence building, but the protagonist is caught and the mission is aborted. Saladin is the code name for the operation.

Weizman, Ezer. On Eagles' Wings. New York: Berkeley, 1976.

1977

Cartland, Barbara.  The Sons of the Sheik.  London : Duckworth, 1977.

Dan, Uri and Edward Radley. The Eichman Syndrome. New York: A Leisure Book, 1977.

The novel is about the tracking down of a Nazi and the Arabs’ attempt to bring about a new Holocaust

Davis, Maggie Hill.  The Sheik. New York: Morrow, 1977.  Mayflower, 1979.

Erdman, Paul Emil. The Silver Bears.  Richmond, Vic.: Marlin Books,  1977. 

Gedge, Pauline.  Child of the Morning.  London : Raven Books, 1977. 

Kalb, Marvin L and Ted Koppel.  In the National Interest. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977.

Palestinians kidnap the wife of the U.S. secretary of state and Middle East peace negotiations are endangered.

Kaplan, Howard. The Damascus Cover.  New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1977.  Sevenoaks: Coronet, 1979.

An aging Israeli agent in Damascus penetrates the German colony and works to get Jewish children out of Syria.

MacLean, Alistair. Goodbye California. London: Collins, 1977; Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.

A Muslim group threatens to detonate atomic bombs that will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, and the sliding of California into the pacific.

Ross, Frank [pseud.: Colin Northway and Michael Eweings] Dead Runner. London: Macmillan, 1977; New York: Atheneum, 1977.

Some Arabs hold Heathrow  Airport hostage.

Smith, Maggi. The Sheik. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1977.

The novel describes the life and character of the richest man in the world. It features a mixed bag of rich Arabs, images of harems, Moslem fanatics, etc.

Stein, Benjamin. and Herbert Stein. On the Brink. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. Feltham: Hamlyn,  1978.

In order to destroy both Israel and the United States, OPEC countries decide to raise the price of oil without any consideration for the ensuing economic disaster which befalls the U. S.

Williamson, Tony. The Doomsday contract. London: Collins, 1977. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

In order to raise the price of oil, oil companies and Arab mercenaries decide to blow up oil fields. An American agent foils the plot.

1978

Carter, Nick [pseud.: Robert Derek Steeley]. Trouble in Paradise. New York: Charter, 1978; London: Star, 1980.

An Arab sheikh plots to take over the world by depleting U.S. energy reserves.

Eisenberg, Dennis.  Operation Uranium Ship.  London : Corgi, 1978. 

Fitzsimons, Christopher.  Early Warning. New York :Avon, 1978, 1981.

Frankil, Sandor and Webster Mews. The Aleph Solution. New York: Stein and Day, 1978.

The Palestinians plan to take over the United Nations and hold the world hostage. A brave Israeli foil the plan and saves the world.

Harel, Isser.   Jihad. London: Corgi, 1978.

The Palestinians set out to bomb Mecca from an Israeli jet in order to bring about an all-out war between the Saudis and the Israelis. Israeli intelligence aborts the plan before any damage is done.

Levin, Meyer. The Harvest: a Novel. Simon & Schuster, 1978.

Markstein, George.  The Georing Testament.  London: The Bodley Head, 1978.

Rhodes, Evan H. An Army of Children: The story of the Children's Crusade, A.D. 1212. New York: Dial Press, 1978.  

In the year 1212, adolescent mobs in France and Germany resolved to conquer the infidel and recapture Jerusalem, recent crusades of soldiers and kings having signally failed to do so.

Whittemore, Edward. Jerusalem Poker. New York: Holt, 1978.

The three main characters engage in a twelve-year poker game, with total control of Jerusalem ultimately at stake. During the game which takes place before World War II, the respective pasts of the men are reviewed.4

1979

Aricha, Amos and Eli Landu. Phoenix. London: Futura, 1979;   New York: New American library, 1979. Severn House, 1980. 

In order to foil the Camp David accords, the Libyans hire a Westerner to assassinate Moshe Dayan. But the would be assasin becomes an admirer of Israeli how.

Carter, Nick [pseud.: John Messman]. Thunderstrike in Syria. New York: Ace-Charter, 1979.

The Syrian Liberation Army threatens to destroy Israel.

Follett, Ken. Triple. New York: Arbor House, 1979.  Penguin,    1991.

The novel justifies the right of Israel to develop a nuclear bomb while the Mossad, with the help of some European allies, finally prevents the Arabs from developing the Arab bomb.

Gordon, Noah. The Jerusalem Diamond. London : Deutsch, 1979.

The Israeli government requests an eminent Jewish American diamond dealer to buy the  stone, originally one of the ancient Jewish Temple treasures, from an incognito Egyptian. Representatives of the three faiths (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism) have contacted him to procure the gem.

James, Leigh [pseud.]. The Caliph Intrigue. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1979.

A born-again Algerian-bred caliph leads the Arab world to unity and complete American economic dependence on the new power, “Islam.”

McInerny, Ralph. Lying There. New York: Vanguard Press, 1979; London: Hale, 1980.  

Nelson, Walter. The Minstrel Code. London: Secker, 1979. U.S. title: The Siege of Buckingham Palace. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

Using international agents to hold the queen of England hostage, an Arab demands  the release of political prisoners from British, German and Israeli jails.

Riis, David Allen. The Jerusalem Conspiracy. New York: Dell, 1979.

The plot centers on “terrorist” attacks and the means used by Israel to repel these attacks.

Rothstein, Raphael. The Hand of Fatima. New York: Manor, 1979.

A Palestinian group financed by Libya, uses European call girls to carry bombs onto planes.

Schiff, Barry and Hal Fishman. The Vatican Target. New York: St Martin's Press, 1979.; London: Severn House, 1982.

           [Pseud.:Rodney w.whitaken].

Trevanian. Shibumi. New York: Random House, 1979; London : Granada, 1980.

A westerner raised in Japan who survived the destruction of Hiroshima, emerges as the world's most artful lover and its most accomplished assassin. The plot involves Arab merchants.

1980

Alan, Ray [pseud.: Joseph Lawrence valls-Russell]. The Beirut Pipeline.  London: Collins, 1980; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.

An English spy is sent on  a mysterious secret service errand to Beirut. When his contact is killed, the spy is sent to Aleppo where he uncovers a drug operation that may be a cover for leftist subversion.

Carter, Nick [pseud.: Jerry Ahern]. The Turkish Bloodbath. New York: Ace-Charter, 1980.

The PLO is trying to get Nazi-developed nerve gas and use it against Israel, Egypt and the U.S.

Collins, Larry and Dominique Lapierre. The Fifth Horseman. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. Blackstone Audio Books, 1991. 

Qaddafi threatens that if the U.S. does not force Israel to leave the West Bank and East Jerusalem, a hydrogen bomb hidden in Manhattan will be detonated in less than two days.

Follett, Ken. The Key to Rebecca.  New York: Morrow,   1980.  Hampton, N.H.: Eagle large Print, 1993.

The story opens in 1942, when Rommel successfully places a German spy in British-held Cairo. Alexander Wolff, a German of Egyptian nationality, infiltrates Egypt but he attracts the unwelcome attention of British intelligence.

Thomas, Michael. M. Green Monday. Wyndham Books,  1980.

In order to pull the rug out from under the President of the United States, Arabian sheikhs use  computer expertise to cut the crude oil prices to $10 a barrel.

1981

Clarkson, Geoffrey.  Jihad.  New York:  Pinnacle, 1981.

Islam is waging a holy war against the West, only this time the weapon is money. Arabs and Iranians unite and form a conspiracy that poses a threat to the world economy.

Coppel, Alfred. The Apocalypse Brigade. New York: Holt, 1981. Charter Books,  1983. 

The issue here is oil and the attempt by the United States to disrupt its production and to replace it with a synthetic product.

Kloepfer, Marguerite. The Heart and the Scarab. New York: Avon, 1981.

Peters, Elizabeth.The Curse of the Pharaohs. New York: Dodd, 1981.

An archaeologist faces the dangers that surround exploration of the tomb that has been doomed with the Pharoah’s curse.

Portugali, Menachem.  Khamsin. London: Macdonald Futura, 1981.

Quinnell, A. J. pseud. The Mahdi. London: Macmillan, 1981. London: Orion, 1996.

Agents from England and the U.S.  work together to  regain control of the Islamic world by bringing about the  Mahdi who will have absolute power over 1-billion Islamic believers. Most of the action takes place in Jeddah, Madinah and Makkah.

Tyler, W. T. The Ants of God. Dial Press, 1981.

In the Sudan, three Europeans,  an, woman, girl, face the threat of tribal warfare—the hatred of one group of people for another, and the outside influence of big power politics.

Warren, Christopher. The Allah Conspiracy. 1st Ed. New York: Beaufort Books, 1981.

1982

Abrahams, Peter. Tongues of Fire. New York: M. Evans, 1982.

An Israeli Mahdi is manufactured by an Orientalist and set loose in the Sudan.

Arathorn, , D. W. Kamal. New York: Harper, 1982. New York: Avon, 1983.

A young Arab American, trained as a terrorist and now able to practice his new craft, finds he must confront reality — and the consequences —of what he has wrought. 

Cohen, Barbara and Bahija Lovejoy.  Seven Daughters & Seven Sons. New York: Atheneum, 1982. Beech tree Books,  1994.

Buran, a young Arab woman disguises herself as a man and opens up a shop in a distant city in order to help her impoverished family. She becomes a successful business woman but she also falls in love with Mahmud, the city’s crown prince, who often comes to her shop. If she tells Mahmud she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for.

Durrell, Lawrence.  Constance; or, Solitary Practices. New York: Viking, 1982. Penguin,  1987. 

World War II scatters the English colony of  Avignon,. While psychoanalyst Constance resumes her studies in Geneva, her husband Sam finds himself in Egypt where he gets skilled by an artillery accident. 

Harris, Rosemary. Zed. London: Faber and Faber,1982, 1990.

Zed, a Lebanese-British teenager, recalls the agonizing ordeal during which he, as a timid eight-year-old hostage of an Arab group, learned about courage

Kennedy, Richard.  The Boxcar at the Center of the Universe . 1st Ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1982. Sound cassettes at Salem, Or.: Oregon State Library, 1982. 

A sixteen-year-old boy on a journey of self-discovery meets up with a hobo, claiming to be an Arab, who tells him of his own search for the center of the universe.

1983

Bar-Zohar, Michael  And Eitan Haber. The Quest for the Red Prince. New York: Morrow, 1983.

The Jews search for the Red Prince, a Palestinian activist and the chief planner of Black September, which masterminded the 1972 Munich Olympic Games massacre.

Caputo, Philip. DelCarso's Gallery. New York:  Holt, 1983.

Farhi, Moris. The Last of Days. New York: Crown, 1983.

An Islamic Mahdi plots to destroy Israel using nuclear weapons.

Goldreich, Gloria. The Burning Harvest. New York: Berkeley Books, 1983.

An Arab falls in love with an Israeli woman and the affair ends tragically. The novel suggests that  romantic relations between Arabs and Jews  cannot succeed and therefore should not be pursued.

Irwin, Robert. The Arabian Nightmare.  London: Dedalus, 1983.

Le Carre, John.  The Little Drummer Girl.  New York: Knopf, 1983.

Israeli intelligence agents  are looking for the two Palestinian brothers, accused of planting several homemade bombs that killed a number of Jews in Germany.

MacEwen, Gwendolyn. The Honeydrum: Tales From Arab Lands. Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, 1983.

Sitkin, Patricia. The Alexandros Expedition.. Boston : Alyson Publications, 1983.

1984

Barber, Noel. Sakkara. Macmillan Pub. Co. 1984.

A member of a British diplomatic family and the daughter of an advisor to the Egyptian court are in love. Mark and Serena both marry other people and endure numerous obstacles and trials before they are united at last.

Buchan, James. A Parish of Rich Women. London : Hamilton, 1984.

Bulliet, Richard. The Gulf Scenario. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984.

A U.S. agent and a colleague of Central Asian Turkish descent thwart Pakistani attempt to take over Arabian oil fields.

Carter, Nick [pseud.: John Messman]. Day of the Mahdi. New York: Charter, 1984.

Big oil and a right-wing general team up with religious fanatics led by a Sudanese Mahdi and use a nuclear threat to unify the Islamic world and declare Colonel Qaddafi the leader.

Carter, Nick [pseud.: John Messman]. Zero-Hour Strike Force.  New York: Charter, 1984.

Renegade U. S. general trains special unit to drop a nuclear bomb from a plane with Israeli markings on Saudi oil fields so that the U. S. can intervene in subsequent war between Saudi Arabia and Israel and seize the oilfields.

Easterman, Daniel. The last Assassin. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.

Elliott, Richard. The Sword of Allah. New York:  Ballantine Books, 1984.

Gedge, Pauline.  The Twelfth Transforming.  New York : Harper & Row, 1984..

Shagan, Steve. The Discovery. New York: Morrow, 1984.

Beautiful young archeologist Gabriella Bercovici and an Italian colleague turn up artifacts at a Syrian dig which imply that the Syrians may have descended from a Hebrew tribe.

Uris, Leon. The Haj. New York: Doubleday, 1984.

The Haj of the title refers both to the pilgrimage and to the central character in the novel Haj Ibrahim al-Soukori al-Wahhabi, the mukhtar of the village of Tabah. The action of the novel  covers the years between 1922 and 1956 when Ibrahim dies in a Palestinian refugee camp.

1985

Baldwin, Alex [pseud.: W. E. B. Griffin]. The Last Heroes. New York: Pocket Books., 1985. New York: Puntam, 1997.

A French engineer who possesses knowledge vital to the construction of the atomic bomb is abducted from Morocco.

Carter, Nick [pseud.:Forrest V. Perrin]. Blood of Scimtar. New York: Charter, 1985.

Nick and a female Israeli agent thwart a KGB plot to assassinate Israeli leaders and lead Israeli Arabs in a revolt against the government.

Maudsley, Jere. [pseud. W. E. B. Griffin]. Hunter. New York: Jove Books, 1985, 1987.   

Qaddafi wants to develop an atomic bomb in order to destroy Israel. Hunter, a Vietnam veteran, is recruited by Israeli intelligence to set a trap for the Canadians who are furnishing Qaddafi with the necessary materials.

Meiring, Desmond. A Talk With the Angels. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. New York: Worldwide, 1987.

Moslem fundamentalists, Israeli rightists, and a British capitalist join in a conspiracy to kill Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, each one for a different reason. But the book focusses mainly on the violent excesses of Islamic fundamentalists.

1986

D'Alpuget, Blanche. Winter in Jerusalem. .  New York: Simun & Schuster, 1986.  .

Ghosh, Amitav. The Circle of Reason. London : Hamilton, 1986.  Granta Books in association with Penguin, 1994.

Hild, Jack.  Jihad.  1st Ed.  New York: Worldwide,  1986. 

MacKinnon, Colin. Finding Hoseyn. New York: Arbor House, 1986.

A veteran journalist, assigned to Tehran, learns about the gunning down of an Israeli soldier on a city street. He begins a chase to find out more about the plot of that killing. The chase takes him to Paris and Beirut.

1987

Aricha, Amos. The Flying Camel. New York: Dutton, 1987.

An American CIA agent and the son of a missing Israeli spy are sent to assassinate the Syrian who ordered the hit on the Marine barracks in Beirut.

Coppel, Alfred. Show me a Hero. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.

“A Rambo-type movie actor wishing to act out a fantasy to remove a Russian nuclear device from Libya faces the Israelis and the KGB. “

Ignatius, David. Agents of Innocence. London: W. H. Allen, 1987. Headline,  1991.

Tom Rogers is the CIA agent posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO. Instead the CIA and the PLO come to work together until the assassination of PLO agent Ramlawi by the Mossad.

Kaplan, Howard. Bullets of Palestine.  New York: Gold Eagle, 1987.

Israeli and Palestinian agents act together to catch Abu Nidal, who is gunning down Jews in Europe in order to discredit the PLO.

Seymour, Gerald. At Close Quarters. London: Collins Harvill, 1987. U. S. title  An Eye For an Eye.  (New York:  Avon Books, 1989).

1988

Brown, Dale. Silver Tower. New York: Berkley Books, 1988.

Coonts, Stephen. Final Flight. Thorndike, Maine : Thorndike, 1988.

Holt, Lawrence, Robert. Good Friday. Markham, Ont.: Penguin Books Canada, 1988.

Ing, Dean. The Skins of Dead Men. Forge, 1988.

An Arab ruler hires former CIA agents to abduct his son from his American mother who fled the kingdom and is now in Mexico. The mother dies but the child is saved by a vacationing American school teacher.

Mantel, Hilary. Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. London: Viking, 1988. New York: Holt, 1997.

An English couple's life in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is told through the eyes of Frances, the wife. She describes the heat, the ugliness and the menace of Islamic law.

Oko, Atabo.  The Secret of the Sheik.  Ibadan: Heineman Educational Books (Nig.) Ltd., 1988. 

Price, Reynolds.  Good Hearts. New York: Atheneum, 1988. 

Steiner, R. Dread. Sun & Moon Press, 1988.

Willis, Damon.  The Jihad Ultimatum : a Novel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1988.

1989

Crowder, Herbert. Ambush at Osirak. Grafton, 1989, 1990. 

Leib, Franklin Allen. Fire Arrow; a Novel. New York: Ballantine, 1989.

Morell, Jane.  The Score.  London: Robert Hale Limited, 1989.

Pearce, Michael. The Mamur Zapt and the Night of the Dog. Collins, 1989, 1991.

This novel is set in pre-First World War Cairo. Captain Owen, the Mamur Zapt—the head of the political CID—has to hold the ring between the Christian Coptic and Muslim Communities. The tension between the two communities is building up.

Sinclair, Clive. Cosmetic Effects. London: Deutsch, 1989; New York: Viking, 1990.

1990

Bowles, Paul. A Thousand Days for Mokhtar. Abacus, 1990.

Coyle, Harold W. Bright star. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

An assassination attempt by Libyans sparks an Egyptian retaliatory raid across the borders. As the conflict intensifies, U.S. and Soviet troops are drawn into the battle..

Poyer, David. The Gulf. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990xx.

The book describes the physical and mental courage of Dan Lenson, the executive officer on a frigate in the Persian Gulf assigned to convoy a succession of oil tankers through risky waters.

Robbins, Tom. Skinny Legs and All. New York: Bantam Books, 1990, 1995.

Waitress/painter Ellen Cherry Charles moves to New York where she finds a job in a Middle Eastern restaurant run by an Arab and a Jew. Meanwhile, (an) evangelist friend of her mother’s is hatching a plot to blow up the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

1991

Crowder, Herbert. Scimitar.  New York: Jove Books, 1991.1992. NOTES: Previously published as: Missile zone.

An American intelligence agent and his wife, a Mossad agent, are searching for a powerful ballistic missile, hijacked by Palestinians, while on its way to Saudi Arabia.  

Faith, Barbara. Lion of the Desert. New York : Silhouette Books, 1991.

Keneally, Thomas. Flying Hero Class. New York: Warner Books,    1991.

Palestinians hijack a plane carrying Australian aboriginal dancers from New York to Frankfort.

McKelvy, Natalie A. Mona and the Arabs and Other Works. Harbert, Mich.: Dunery Press, 1991.

Pearce, Michael. The Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile.  Crime Club, 1991.  Recorded Books Inc., 1995.

In colonial Egypt, Captain Garth Owen of the British police investigates the drowning of a woman from the yacht of a local prince. His work is hampered by the disappearance of her body, as well as political onsiderations.

Peters, Elizabeth.  The Last Camel Died at Noon. New York: Warner Books, 1991, 1992.

Rescued in the desert after every camel in their caravan dies, Amelia Peabody and her family are taken to a lost city where ancient Egyptian customs have been carried into modern times.

Skinner, Michael. First Air. New York: Avon Books, 1991.

Victor, Barbara. Friends, Lovers, Enemies: a Novel. Thorndike, Me.: Thorndike Press, 1991 1992.

Undercover Israeli Mossad agent uses an American television journalist to gain information about renowned PLO leader Tamir Karami, who is to be interviewed by the American journalist.

1992

Deighton, Len. City of Gold. Harper Collins Pubs. 1992.

In Cairo in the winter of 1942,  a Glasgow police officer, has been summoned to Egypt to plug the intelligence leak that is perpetuating the Axis advance.

Easterman, Daniel. Name of the Beast.  Harper Collins Pubs. 1992.

On the eve of the new millennium, religious fundamentalists seize power in Egypt and wage a campaign of terror throughout Europe.

Freud, Esther.  Hideous Kinky. London : Hamish Hamilton, Ltd. 1992. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1998.

Having been driven through Europe in the mid-1960s, the two little English girls and their mother finally settle in North Africa. In Marrakech, the mother gets into Sufism and contemplates wearing a veil while the children begin to rebel.

Hartov, Steven.  The Heat of Ramadan.  New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1992.

An Israeli hit team sent to Munich to assassinate a Palestinian blow their assignment. Thus, they begin a cat-and-mouse chase which ends with the two protagonists confronting each other on a parapet at the Dome of the Rock.

Hoffman, Andrew Jay. Beehive.  Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, 1992.

The daughter of a New York multimillionaire is taken hostage in Beirut. Her boyfriend leaves off  his usual beekeeping tranquility and prepares to save her.

Jones, Harry. Shadow in a Weary Land : a Novel. Sag Harbor, N.Y: Permanent Press,1992.

Two American Foreign Service officers are to protect Professor Karim Hassan, a Palestinian moderate and U. S. citizen in danger from extremists. They travel with Hassan through Lisbon, and Rome to Israel and they are finally kidnapped in Jerusalem, on the orders of wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing Hassan. After a brief ordeal, they are rescued by an Israeli officer and return to Washington as heroes.

Melheim, Richard Alan. Unfinished Business. 1st Ed. Stillwater, MN:  Creative Outlet, 1992. 

Ondaatje, Michael.  The English Patient. London: Bloomsbury, 1992, 1996.

This book traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Each of the characters is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. Some of the action takes place in Cairo.

Pearce, Michael. The Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt. London : Harper Collins,1992.

In colonial Egypt, Capt. Garth Owen of the British police investigates the smuggling of antiquities out of the country. The search is complicated by interference from a rich American lady who thinks she has the answers and who makes Owen's woman jealous.

Peters, Elizabeth. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog.  New York: Warner Books, 1992.

In this mystery novel (7th in the series picks up where ‘The Last Camel Died at Noon’ ends) archaeologist Amelia Peabody Emerson and her husband leave their son Ramses in England to excavate in Egypt. Amelia anticipates time alone with Emerson, but the Master Criminal devises otherwise.

Smith, J. V. Cradle of Fire New York:  Penguin Group, 1992.

Ordered to hasten his testing of the Osprey—an advanced attack helicopter upon which the future of the U. S. military depends—Lt. Col Nelson Miles realizes that his government plans to use the Osprey in the volatile Middle East.

1993

Brown, George. Pinpoint. London: Century Limited, 1993. Arrow, 1994.

At the time of the Algerian War,  two French officers opposing Algerian independence assassinate a minister. The novel describes the hunt for the men, with particular attention to the way the security agencies compete with each other.

Cook, Nick. Aggressor. 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Under covert orders from the National Security Council, an American colonel joins forces with a British foreign correspondent to trace a series of international terrorist attacks to their source.

Grover, Wayne. Ali and the Golden Eagle. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1993.

In Ezratu, an imaginary town in western Arabia, an American helps a young boy capture a baby golden eagle which brings fame to both the boy and his town when it wins a royal falconry contest.

Hylton, Sara. In the Shadow of the Nile. London: Century, 1993.  Arrow,  1994.

A high class English beauty is sent to Egypt to meet her future husband. On the boat she makes the acquaintance of an Egyptian prince and tragedy follows. She becomes pregnant and he is assassinated.

Mason, David. Shadow Over Babylon. Dutton,  1993, 1995.

U.S. security expert Ed Howard, a Special Boat Service veteran, agrees  to take on the assassination  of Saddam Hussein for a $ 10 million pay off. 

Rathbone, Julian.  Sand Blind. New York: Serpent's Tail, 1993.

Arnold Cartwright, is a British engineer working on a radar project for Iraq. A murder attempt on his father makes it clear that he has his job for life or death.

Seymour, Gerald. The Fighting Man.  Accord, MA: Wheeler Pub., 1993.

Going into self-imposed exile for his part in Desert Storm, former British Special Forces officer Gord Brown is drawn into the cause of three Guatemalan Indians who are resisting a military dictatorship. Recruited as a “fighting man”, Gord finds that his past and future irreversibly entwined as he is plunged into a war without mercy.

Smith, Wilbur.  River God. London : BCA, 1993.  1st U.S. Ed. New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1994. Books on Tape, 1995. 

A romance in Egypt in 2000 BC. Tanus, a young warrior, loves Lostris, the daughter of Lord Istris, the grand vizier. But the father  is against the match, wanting his daughter to marry Pharaoh  Moamose. The story is told by Taita, an eunuch in Lostris' employ.

Wood, Barbara. Virgins of Paradise. 1st Ed. New York: Random House, 1993.

As young girls from the upper-class Rasheed family in Cairo, Jasmine and Camelia are carefully schooled in Egyptian ritual by their enigmatic grandmother. As they mature and break away from strict Muslim custom, their lives take them into irregular directions.

Wouk, Herman. The Hope; a Novel. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993; London: Coronet, 1994. 

Through the lives of three military families, Wouk traces the first twenty years in  the formation of the state of Israel. The story begins in 1948 and covers Israel’s three wars with the Arabs: the 1948 war, the 1956 Suez war, and the 1967 Six Day War. 

1994

Banks, Lynne Reid. Broken Bridge. New York: Morrow, 1994.  New York: Avon Books, 1996.

The two fourteen-year-old, recently arrived in Israel, walk unsuspectingly through the streets of Jerusalem when they are attacked by two Palestinian Arabs. One of the teens is killed while the other is left to face horrendous choices and consequences.

Clifford, Alan K. The Fatherland Files. Wellesley, Mass.: A.K. Peters, 1994. 

In Germany to study a new drug for heart irregularities, an American doctor stumbles on a plot to supply chemical weapons to Libya. He tries to get more information and is blocked.

Coonts, Stephen.  The Red Horseman.  New York: Pocket Books, 1994. 

Rear Admiral Jake Grafton, Deputy Director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and his team are sent to Moscow  to ensure that all the weapons are destroyed before they disappear into a Middle East terrorist pipeline. Grafton soon finds that some American officials want him to fail.

Cullen,  Robert. Cover Story. New York: Atheneum . 1994. Ballantine, 1995.

After the break down of the Soviet Union the Syrians move to recruit Russian nuclear scientists for their A-bomb program.

Davis, Lindsey. Last Act in Palmyra. New York: Mysterious Press, 1994. Warner,  1997.

The Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco, goes to Syria in search of an abducted woman who was a water organist in a circus, a perfect cover to do some spying for the emperor.

Elkins, Aaron.  Dead Men's Hearts.  New York: Mysterious Press, 1994, 1995.   

Professor Gideon Oliver investigates a murder among the ruins of ancient Egypt. The story begins when skeletons turns up on the site of a film shoot for which Oliver is a commentator.

Forsyth, Frederick. The Fist of God.  New York: Bantam, 1994. Corgi Books,  1995..

After the  invasion of Kuwait, a British agent is sent to Baghdad  to assess the situation and build a resistance movement. He learns that Saddam has a doomsday weapon he is planning to use against the Coalition Allies when they launch Operation Desert Storm.

Gedge, Pauline. House of Dreams.  Toronto, Ont., Canada:  Viking , 1994. U.S. title: Lady of the Reeds. (New York: Soho Press, 1995).

In ancient Egypt, a peasant girl becomes an apprentice to the court physician and it is not long before she is treating Ramses III  himself. So impressed is the pharaoh with her, he makes her his concubine, a position of great power, but court life is full of intrigue.

Harrison, Payne. Black Cipher. Crown,   1994.

Faisal Shaikh, a cryptographer with the British government, deciphers a plot to kill a visiting Arab (Saudi) diplomat. He warns the police but nothing is done. The diplomat dies and Shaikh is fired from his job. He decides to learn why.

Ignatius, David. The Bank of Fear.  London: Headline, 1994. New York: Avon, 1995.

Sam Hoffman, an American financial investigator, and Lina Alwan, an Iraqi citizen working in London, set out to find the fortune of a dead Iraqi dictator.

Jahn, Michael.  Murder at the Museum of Natural History: a Bill Donovan Mystery. 1st Ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1994.

Mohammed Akbar is an Arab who is suspected of stabbing a billionaire who raided half the world for his Treasure of the Silk.

James, Deana. Beloved Rogue.  New York: Kensington Pub. Corp., 1994.

In Victorian London, Maria Thorne, a high-class lady, hires Jacko Walton, a thief, to find her sister, Melissa.  She has disappeared and may have been sold into slavery and shipped to Arabia.

Kinsale, Laura. The Dream Hunter.  New York: Berkley Books, 1994. 

In 1838, Lord Winter who is exploring North Africa hires a Bedouin boy to serve as a guide. The two are captured and in the course of their confinement Winter discovers the boy is in fact a  woman. They fall in love, are separated in an escape, and after  many adventures are reunited in England.

Kotzwinkle, William. Game of Thirty.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Bantam, 1995.

A wealthy New York antique dealer is murdered while playing the Game of Thirty, a game played by Egyptian pharaohs. PI Jimmy McShane is hired to find the killer, only to discover the killer is playing the Game of Thirty with him and Manhattan is the board on which they make their moves.

Marsella, Anne. The Lost and The Found and Other Stories. New York: New York University Press, 1994.

Immigrant experiences in Europe and America. The protagonists--some legal, some illegal--come from such places as Turkey, Nigeria, Mexico and Morocco.

Patterson, Andrew M.  The Hypocrites : an Epic Novel About the Middle East From 1959-1989.   1st Ed. [S.l] :A.M. Patterson, 1994.   Includes bibliographical references (p. 237).

Peters, Elizabeth . Night Train to Memphis. New York:  Warner Books, 1994, 1995. Blackstone Audio Books, 1996.

On learning of a plot to rob the treasure-filled Cairo Museum, Vicky Bliss, the assistant curator of the Munich National Museum, joins a Nile cruise to prevent the burglary by identifying the burglar..

Pineiro, R. J. Ultimatum. New York: Tom Doherty Associates,   1994.

Navy lieutenant Kevin Dalton teams up with a beautiful Israeli spy and her band of Kurdish rebels to thwart Sadaam Hussein's revenge for the defeat in the Gulf War. It proves a difficult assignment because this time Iraq has the A-bomb.

Pope, Liston.  Redemption;  a Novel of War in Lebanon. 1st Ed. New York: N.A. Gilbert & Sons, 1994. 

The author who has been a World Council of Churches correspondent in Lebanon, draws upon his own experience of the civil war in Lebanon.

 

Wouk, Herman. The Glory; a Novel. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

The Glory carries on the struggle of memorable characters of The Hope in the post-67 fighting: the Yom Kipper War, the Entebbe Rescue, and the bombing of Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981.

1995

Belarmi,  Rabah.  Shattered Vision .  New York: Holmes & Meyer, 1995. 

An Algerian boy tries everything to prevent advancing blindness,  something which happened to the author at the age of 15. The story is told against the background of the war of independence from France and the post-revolutionary disappointments.

Collin, Richard.  The Man with Many Names. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

An American intelligence officer, known only as “The Advisor” is helping the British army in Oman. He meets a little girl after he has killed her parents. Ironically, she becomes the means of his redemption from the dehumanization of war.

Dann, Jack. The Memory Cathedral: a secret history of Leonardo da Vinci : a novel. New York : Bantam Books, 1995, 1996.

Leonardo da Vinci ‘s dream to build a flying machine becomes true, albiet in Syria not in Italy. The 15th Century artist and inventor is military adviser to the caliph, in Syria,  in a war with the Turks.

Drury, Allen.  A Thing of State : a Novel.  New York : Scribner, 1995.

A U.S. Secretary of State is forced to confront the leader of an oil-rich Middle East country that has obtained nuclear weapons and threatens to invade a neighboring nation.

Feder, Harriet K.   Mystery of the Kaifeng Scroll : a Vivi Hartman adventure.   Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., c1995.

Fifteen-year-old Aviva travels to Istanbul to vacation with her mother. She finds her mother missing and Vivi must trust an Arab girl, as well as her own knowledge of Torah, to unravel the mystery.

Gardner, John. Confessor. New York, NY: Bantam, 1995. Warner,   1996. 

British secret service agent Herbie Kruger investigates the car-bomb death of a fellow spy. He uncovers a new terrorist organization made up of Iraqis and the Irish Republican Army.

Gordon, Graeme. Bayswater Bodycount. New York:  Serpent's Tail, 1995.

A Jew's son is found tortured to death in the meat locker of an Arab-owned business in London. The Jew embarks on a campaign of revenge and the Arabs reply with more killings.

Graham, Winston. Tremor. London: Macmillan, 1995.  Thorndike Press, 1997. 

An earthquake strikes Morocco. It  affects the lives of a group of European guests staying at the ritzy Hotel Saada in Agadir.

Low, R. G. 69.  Washington, D.C.; London: Minerva Press, 1995. 

Marcinko, Richard and John Weisman. Rogue Warrior: Green Team. New York; London:  Pocket Books, 1995,1996.

A former U.S. Navy SEAL who fights terrorism leads his team against Muslim fundamentalists in Cairo.

Masters, Anthony.   Hidden Gods: the Doorway.  London: Constable, 1995.

McGehee, Nicole. No More Lonely Nights: a Novel. 1st Ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1995.

The daughter of a French planter in Egypt is searching for true love.

Muller, Marcia. A Wild and Lonely Place. New York: Mysterious Press, c1995.  Warner, 1996.

PI Sharon McCone of San Francisco goes after a terrorist who is bombing diplomatic posts in the U.S. He is threatening to bomb the consulate of an Arab country. In arranging protection, Sharon becomes involved in kidnaping as well.

Nance,  John J. Pandora's Clock. New York: Doubleday, 1995. St. Martin's Press, 1996.

An airliner whose passengers have been infected with a deadly virus is ordered to land in the Sahara. As everyone on board will die anyway, the CIA decides to shoot it down and blame the Arabs.

Peel, Collin D. Dark Armada.  Bath, England ; Chivers Press, 1995.

Intelligence agencies from several countries, including Arabs and Jews, battle each other for a secret weapon which uses dust particles to create huge explosions.

Pineiro, R. J. Retribution. New York: Tom Doherty Associates,   1995.

Iraq's president Saddam Hussein has managed  to assemble  three atom bombs to drop them on American cities. An American aviator and a beautiful Israeli agent team up to stop him but not before Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is attacked with nuclear weapons.

Reid, MacDonald.  Jihad: World War in 2036.  Edmonton, AB, Canada: Commonwealth Publications, 1995.  1996.

The Faithful, a group of North African Islamic nations, are plotting to bring the world to its knees by seizing the oil resources of the Middle East. Then, when the entire world is kneeling, the Faithful of Allah will read to them from the Koran, preaching the message of Islam.

Robinson, Lynda S. Murder at the God's Gate. New York: Walker Pub. 1995. 1st Ballantine Books Ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. 

Lord Meren, the Pharaoh's security chief, combats priests scheming within the walls of the court.

Roscoe, Patrick. The Lost Oasis. Toronto: [New York]: McClelland & Stewart ; Distributed by St. Martin's Press in the U.S., 1995.

After the mother is confined to a mental home, the children follow the father's teaching jobs to Asia, Africa, Latin America. Without a mother for an anchor they grow up rootless, unable to stay in one place. The story is told by a son, searching for his father in Morocco.

Saylor, Steven.  The Venus Throw. New York: Thorndike, Maine : G.K. Hall, 1995. New York: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996.

In ancient Rome, Gordianus-the-Finder investigates the murder of Dio, an Egyptian envoy who came to Rome to protest the rule of the Egyptian king.

Tarr,  Judith. Pillars of Fire. 1st mass market ed. NewYork: TOR, 1995, 1997. 

After failing to impose monotheism on his people, Pharaoh Akhenaten fakes his death and reemerges under a new name, Moses, the one of the Ten Commandments. The story is told through the eyes of a slave girl.

Wilson, Jonathan. The Hiding Room. New York: Viking, 1995.  New York: Penguin Books, 1997.

In Cairo during World War II, a British intelligence officer, falls in love with a Jewish woman suspected by the British of being a Zionist terrorist. He loves her, then betrays her, then tries to save her. The story is told by their son, now a grown man.

1996

Bury, Stephen . The Cobweb. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.

As the Gulf War approaches, Iraqi agents in the U.S. prepare biological terror. The plot is discovered by Sheriff Clyde Banks as he investigates the murder of an Arab student in an agricultural college in Iowa.

Cawood, Chris. [666 plus 666 plus 666 equals 1998] : The Year of the Beast   Kingston, Tenn. : Magnolia Hill Press, 1996.  NOTES: Title presented as an arithmetic problem.

New Orleans reporter Brad Yeary investigates the assassination of U.S. vice-president Samuel Harrot during the 1998 Sugar Bowl. Leads are scarce but Arab terrorists are suspects.

Chafets, Zev. Hang Time. Warner Books Ed. New York: Warner Books, 1996, 1997.

In Israel, Arabs kidnap three visiting American  basketball players and start chopping one to pieces.

Easterman, Daniel. The Final Judgement   New York: Harper Paperbacks,  1996, 1997.

A former Israeli Special Forces man helps his brother in Sardinia find his kidnapped son. In the process he discovers a plot by ex-Nazis intent on reviving the Third Reich. He destroys the plotters with the help of a beautiful Arab interpreter.

Frey, Stephen W. The Vulture Fund. New York: Dutton, 1996, Signet,   1997.  Penguin Audio Books, 1996

A CIA director with presidential ambitions, but not the cash, hires Arabs to launch a campaign of terror to precipitate economic chaos in the U.S. This will enable him to buy property at a cheap price and sell later at a profit.

Gedge, Pauline. House of Illusions. Toronto, Ont., Canada : Viking, 1996. Penguin,  1997.

In ancient Egypt, a banished royal concubine seeks revenge on the people who framed her.

Glenowen, Owen.  Death of a Nation.  Ravenshead :Nostalgic, 1996. 

Holland, Cecelia.  Jerusalem.  New York: Forge, 1996, 1997.

In the Holy Land in 1187 A.D., the Knights Templar, ferocious warriors who took vows to live like monks, confront war and political intrigue while battling the forces of Saladin.

Horan, Hume A. To the Happy Few : a Story of Death, Love, and Loss in the Sudan. Washington, D.C : Electric City Press, 1996.

Johansen, Iris. Lion's Bride . New York: Bantam, 1996.

In 12th Century Syria, a silk weaver is on  her way to Damascus when her caravan is attacked by brigands. The knight who saves her  takes her to his castle and will not let her go.

Kaminsky, Stuart. Lieberman's Law. 1st Ed. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.  Recorded Books, 1996.

Arab militants and white skinheads are creating trouble in ethnic Chicago.

Kiteley, Brian. I Know Many Songs, but I Cannot Sing.   New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1996.

In modern Egypt, during the last week of Ramadan,  Gamal takes his American friend  to visit cafes, family, country, and jail. Tension between fundamentalists and pro-Westerners is at its worst.

Lawhead, Stephen. Byzantium. New York: Harper Prism, 1996.

Irish monk Aidan Mac Cainnech is hired by the Holy Roman Emperor to spy for Byzantium on the Arabs. Aidan is enslaved and more importantly loses his faith, but he will regain it.

Levin, Lee. King Tut's Private Eye. 1st Ed. New York: St. Martins Press, 1996.

In ancient Egypt, Eye, the grand vizier of Thebes, is given seven days by Pharaoh Tutankhamen to find out who killed the pharaoh's father. Time is not enough, especially as the pharaoh has banned torture.

Mackin, Jeanne. Dreams of Empire. New York: Kensington Books, 1996, 1997.

An illustrator has deserted her husband to accompany Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Luckily,  he has followed her to Cairo because when she is accused of attempting to poison the emperor, he is the only man she can trust.

Mayne, Elizabeth. The Sheik and the Vixen.  New York:  Silhouette Books, 1996. 

McMahon, Barbara.  Sheik Daddy. New York: Silhouette Books, 1996.

Moreau, C. X. Distant Valor. 1st Ed. New York: Forge, 1996. 

A fictionalized account of the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut in which 300 men were killed.

Peters, Elizabeth. The Hippopotamus Pool. New York: Warner Books, 1996. Recorded Books, 1996.

The 19th Century archeologists, Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson, arrive in Egypt with children to explore the site of Queen Tetisheri's tomb in Thebes. All goes well until their son, Ramses, is kidnaped.

Raj Bond, Larry. The Enemy Within. New York: Warner Books, 1996. Warner Vision Books, 1997.

An Iranian general grabs power and attempts to annex the oil fields of the Arabs. An American expert in counter-terror, leads a Delta Force on a raid to assassinate the general.

Robinson, Lynda S. Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing. New York: Walker & Co., 1996. 1st Ballantine Books Ed. New York: Ballantine Books, 1997.

In ancient Egypt, Lord Meren, advisor to the boy-king Tutankhamen, is a busy man. While investigating the murder of a woman found in a granary; he has to arrange for the secret transportation of royal bodies to another tomb, safe from vandals.

Rosenberg, Robert.   House of Guilt: an Avram Cohen Mystery.   New York:  Scribner,  1996. 

In Jerusalem, the former deputy police commander, Avram Cohen is hired to locate a rich man's missing grandson. He finds him dead on the West Bank. Everyone blames the Hamas Arab extremists, but Cohen thinks Jewish extremists are the more likely killers.

Shelton, Dan. Assault on the Venture.   Angel Fire, NM: Intrigue Press, 1996. 

An Arab boards an American aircraft carrier with 5,000 men on board. Tom Barnes of the National Security Council's crisis intervention team has to get the  bomber before he destroys the plane with a nuclear device .

Smith, Cynthia. Noblesse Oblige. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1996.

On holiday in Belgium, PI Emma Rhodes thwarts the kidnaping of a member of the royal family by Arab terrorists. The terrorists now target her in revenge.

Smith, Wilbur. The Seventh Scroll.  Bath, England: Chivers Press Limited, 1996.

In Ethiopia, Royan Al Simma, a beautiful Egyptologist searches for a pharaoh's treasure. When her map is stolen and her  husband murdered by a German villain, Royan enrolls the services of an adventurous English nobleman.

Sofer, Barbara. The Thirteenth Hour. New York: Dutton, 1996. New York: Signet, 1997. 

Two women from the United States fight on opposite sides in the Arab-Israeli conflict. One is Deborah Stern, a biologist enrolled by the Israeli secret service; the other is psychologist Raba Alhassan who joins a Palestinian organization.

Tarr, Judith. King and Goddess. 1st Ed. New York: Forge, 1996.

A strong-headed queen becomes ruler of 2,000 BC Egypt. Already as a bride, Hatshepsut wants her husband to be taught about love. The novel also tells the story of the commoner who became her servant, architect and paramour.

Temple, Frances.  The Beduins' Gazelle.  New York: Orchard Books, 1996.

In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become separated by political intrigue between warring tribes.

Wood, Barbara. The Prophetess. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. New York: Warner Books, 1997.

An American archeologist in Egypt discovers papyrus scrolls that  clearly establish women priests existed in early Christianity. The archeologist, a feminist, smuggles the scrolls to California, pursued by the Egyptians and the Vatican. The latter are afraid to lose male dominance.

Wood, N Lee. Looking for the Mahdi. New York: Ace Books, 1996, 1997.

An American woman agent, Kay Munad, is assigned to deliver an android to a sheikh in the Middle East to serve as his bodyguard. The pair are intercepted by enemies and  become involved in a revolution.

1997

Alexander, Meena. Manhattan Music: a Novel. 1st Ed.  San Francisco:  Mercury House, 1997.

An Indian woman marries an American to get away from her tradition-bound culture. However, she learns that boundless freedom is not enough. In New York, she has an  affair with an Egyptian.

Briley, John. The First Stone: a Novel.  1st Ed. New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1997.

On orders from the Israeli secret service, Lisa Cooper accepts a proposal of marriage from Le'ith Safadi, a rich Saudi Arabian. Both are students at the University of California. Fifteen years later the service orders Lisa to betray her husband. She does but  with a heavy heart.

Chapman, Vera. The Notorious Abbess. Chicago, IL : Academy Chicago Publishers, 1997.

Twelve adventures featuring a 12th century nun with magical powers at the time of the Crusades. In one, a mermaid asks her for a soul, in another she meets the devil, in a third she arouses the jealousy of a Muslim wife.

Clancy, Tom.Tom Clancy's Op-Center : Acts of War.  New York: Berkley Books, 1997.

Syrians have attacked a dam inside the borders of Turkey, threatening the water supply of their very homeland. Their plan is to force an all-out war in the Middle East.

Cochran, Molly and Warren Murphy. The Broken Sword. 1st Ed. New York: Tor, 1997.

The legendary King Arthur is reborn in our time as Arthur Blessing of Chicago. So are Merlin and Galahad, the latter as an FBI agent. They are joined by knights who travelled forward in time and everyone sets out to recuperate the Holy Grail from an evil man in Morocco.

De Rosa, Peter. Pope Patrick. 1st Ed. New York: Doubleday, 1997.

In the year 2009, when tension is so high between the West and Muslim fundamentalists who now control the oil of Saudi Arabia, a new pope at the Vatican issues an astonishing decree which condemns the lending of money. This decree which accords with Islam’s prohibition of usury causes total chaos in world financial markets.

Dickey, Christopher. Innocent Blood. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 

A former U.S. Army soldier becomes a Muslim terrorist. The son of Yugoslav immigrants, Kurt Kurtovic of Kansas first meets the terrorist, Rashid, during the Gulf War. He meets him again in Bosnia while investigating his family's Muslim roots and agrees to  help the cause with a terrorist act in New York.

Freeman, David.  One of Us. 1st Carroll & Graf Ed.  New York:  Carroll & Graf Publishers,   1997.

In Egypt, just before World War II, a beautiful Englishwoman is at the center of a triangle involving the British high commissioner and  Farouk, the prince who will be the last king.

Freemantle, Brian. Bomb Grade. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

In Moscow, British agent Charlie Muffin joins forces with operatives of the Russian ministry of interior to retrieve plutonium stolen by local gangsters. The plutonium is destined for Iraq and there is enough of it to make three dozen atom bombs.

George, Margaret. The Memoirs of Cleopatra: a Novel. 1st Ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.  

Cleopatra VII, queen of Egypt tells it all in this book; from her earliest memories, to her final days as she prepares to commit suicide by snake bite.

Gilman, Dorothy. Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist.  Doubleday Direct large print Ed. New York: Fawcett Columbine,    1997.  Recorded Books,   1997.

Part-time CIA operative Emily Pollifax flies to the Middle East to pick up a novel written by an executed Iraqi dissident. On arrival she sees no sign of her contact, only dead bodies, Arab terrorists and Iraqi spies.

Givón, Talmy. Running Through the Tall Grass : a Novel.  1st Ed. New York: Regan Books, 1997. 

Two French soldiers join a terrorist organization trying to keep Algeria a French colony. One of the two is made to attack a hospital. Revolted, he decides to quit, but the other forces him to continue and eventually they go to the Congo for more mayhem.

Howard, Stephanie.  Amber and the Sheikh.  Surrey, England: Mills & Boon, 1997. 189 p. 

Kleier, Glenn. The Last Day.   New York: Warner Books, 1997. 

Following a huge explosion a woman emerges from the Negev Desert, claiming to be the Messiah.  She calls for the abolition of organized religions. But is she for real or a robot produced by a military laboratory? Jerusalem reporter John Feldman decides to find out.

Land, Jon.  The Walls of Jericho; a Novel .  1st Ed.  New York: Forge,   1997. Audio Books, 1997.

A Palestinian police inspector and an Israeli policewoman join forces to hunt for a serial killer in Jericho. Their investigation, which leads to  romance, is played out against the background of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Marcinko, Richard and John Weisman. Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold. New York: Pocket Books, 1997.  Includes index.

A soldier of fortune battles a plot to restore the Soviet Union to its former glory. The mission takes him to Moscow, Paris and finally into Syria to neutralize a nuclear arms factory.

Mason, Connie.  Sheik.  New York:  Leisure Books, 1997.

Princess Zara who had been raised as a warrior is always at her father’s side in battle against the Arabs who had stolen their land. She is taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal Abd Thabbit during a raid. 

Mayle, Peter. Chasing Cezanne. London: Hamish Hamilton,   1997. 

In Paris, New York photographer Andre Kelly puts aside photography to destroy a black market in paintings. The villain is using photo shoots of art works as an occasion to substitute forgeries for the real thing. Then, he sells the originals to Japanese and Arab collectors.

Maxim,  John R. Haven. 1st Ed. New York: Avon Books, 1997.

Enjoying a romantic reunion in the U.S., a former East German spy and a beautiful Israeli agent stumble on a ring which smuggles abducted Muslim girls. This in turn leads them to uncover a plot to supply Islamic terrorists with nuclear weapons.

Peters, Elizabeth.  Seeing a Large Cat. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1997. 

While digging in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, English archeologist  Amelia Peabody discovers the mummified body of a recently dead  woman. The victim was the fourth wife of a famous archeologist and she disappeared five years earlier, supposedly eloping with a  lover.

Robinson, Lynda S.  Eater of Souls: a Lord Meren Mystery.  New York:  Walker,  1997.

A historical mystery in which Lord Meren, the chief of security to the pharaoh of Egypt investigates the death by poison of Queen Nefertiti. It's a dangerous probe as the killer might be an important person and take revenge on Meren.

Robinson, Patrick. Nimitz Class. 1st Ed.  New York: HarperCollins, 1997.  Recorded Books, 1997.

In 2002, an American aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea is sunk by a nuclear torpedo with the loss of 6,000 hands. The U.S. retaliates with an attack on an Iranian submarine base, but as Lieutenant Commander Billy Baldridge discovers the real culprit is a lone Iraqi submariner.

Simon, Frank.  Walls of Terror. Wheaton, Ill. :Crossway Books, 1997.

Stevenson , Robert Louis. Torchlight. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997.

A terrorist organization is recovering gold from a ship wreck to finance Iraq's missile program. Two CIA agents pose as deep sea divers to find the same treasure.

1998

Anderson, Scott. Triage. New York: Scribner, 1998.

A young war photographer returns from Iraq  to New York.  He is traumatized by his experience in a war between Iraqis and Kurds. He finds himself increasingly disturbed about his role in the war.

Bond, Larry. Day of Wrath. New York: Warner, 1998.

Arabs who bought a nuclear weapon from Russia are  planning to use  it to destroy Washington. An FBI agent and a U.S. Army colonel discover the plot and have to stop them.

Flem-Ath,  Rose.  Field  of Thunder.  Toronto: Stoddart, 1998.

August Riley of the CIA is on a mission to destroy Iraqi biological weapon. He receives the needed help from Zuleika Maher, the estranged wife of the scientist who developed it.

Foote, Tom. Undertow. Chester Springs, Pa: Dufour editions, 1998.

An Irish yachtsman whose family have been killed by the IRA terrorists becomes a British spy to revenge himself on IRA.  He undertakes to captain a gun-running ship, a mission which takes him to Libya and leads to a face-to-face with the terrorist chief.

Herman, Richard. Against All Enemies. New York:  Avon,  1998.

Captain Bradley Jefferson of the U. S. Air Force, who is black and a Muslim, is charged with treason after the failure of an air strike against terrorists in Sudan. But as the prosecuting lawyer discovers, the officer is a scapegoat in a game of high American politics.

Kadish, Rachel. From a Sealed Room. New York: Putnam,  1998. 

An American woman in Jerusalem has an abusive love affair with a former Israeli soldier who is haunted by memories of pacifying Arabs. These memories cause him to explode in violent rages at her expense. 

Lichtman, Charles. The Last Inauguration. Hollywood, Fla.: Lifetime Books, 1998.

In retaliation for an attempt on his life, the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein orders the assassination of the U.S. president. The job is given to Carlos-the-Jackal, but a former CIA agent will make sure he won’t succeed.

Peters, Elizabeth. The Ape Who Guards the Balance. New York: Avon, 1998.

Suspecting that the Master Criminal is behind their problems, Sleuth Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family travel to Egypt to continue excavating in the Valley of Kings. They experience various adventures and their digging is interrupted by several mysterious murders which they attempt to solve. The villain seems to follow them there.

Simon, Beaufort. Murder in the Holy City. New York: St. Martin’s, 1998.

In 12th century Jerusalem, occupied with the Crusaders and simmering with intrigue, Sir Geoffrey de Mappestone investigates a series of murders to discover a plot by a Christian faction to grab power.

Stewart, Chris. The Kill Box. New York: Evans, 1998.

After ex-president George Bush dies, a victim of Iraqi germs, an airborne operation is mounted to abduct from Iraq the man responsible. From him, the government hopes to learn the location of hidden germ sites in the U.S.

Stone, Robert. Damascus Gate. Houghton, 1998.

Jewish and Christian terrorists unite in a scheme to blow up Islamic mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The plot is discovered by  a Jewish American who has a romance with an Arab nightclub dancer.

Wilkinson, D. Marion. The Empty Quarter. Albany, Calif: Boaz Pub, 1998.

Despite constant clashes of culture, race, religion and nationality,Arabs, Americans and Indians are forced to work as a team in one of the most isolated situations possible. No matter how they feel about each other, workers on an oil rig in the Empty Quarter need each other to survive the Arabian “Waste Land”.

Conclusion

In sum, this study makes clear a number of interesting points. First, it indicates that there has been an increase in the publication of such novels. While the seventies and  the eighties claim sixty two and sixty three novels respectively, the eight years of the nineties have produced a hundred and thirty nine novels. The increase in the number of books printed suggests a growing interest in the Arab world. However, the fact that more novels of this kind are read means that the dark picture of the Arabs will get even darker in the minds of the Western readers. In other words, the increase in the number of books defaming Arabs in the nineties accords with the “Clash of Civilizations” philosophy. In the late eighties the communist world collapsed and the cold war came to an end. Thus, it is possible that these novels may have been pushing for establishing “Islam” or the “Arabs” as the new Universal Enemy. For the purposes of this paper I would say the Arabs because the general public in the West often uses the two terms interchangeably

The second point made clear by this study is the tremendous amount of distrust and fear that these novels must have created in the minds of their readers in the West.  Reading at least synopsis of these works show that the picture is much darker than we suppose. The novels of the seventies, for example, are dominated by the Arabs’ aggressive acts of terror. A closer look at the annotations of the novels of the seven years of this decade proves the dominance of verbs like “hijack, “assassinate”, “kidnap”, and “blow up”. It is worth noting that while the culprits are always the Arabs,  it is often the Israelis who foil the plots and save the victims. One can imagine the Western readers’ apprehension at the possibility of these brutal Arabs getting united and then laying their hands on nuclear weapons. This study has shown that the novels of the eighties are dominated by the idea of a nuclear united Arab world. This decade, for instance, witnessed the birth of four novels about the Mahdi who symbolizes the unity of not only the Arabs but also the whole Muslim world. In some of the novels which do not have the Mahdi, the writers use a political Arab figure to pose as the evil director of Arab terrorism against the West. While the eighties present Qaddafi as the worst of enemies, the nineties introduce Saddam Hussein as the main cause of alarm and fear in the West. The eight years of the nineties saw the publication of fifteen novels portraying Saddam as an on going menace to the West. Whether the villain is called  Qaddafi, Almahdi or Saddam what remains in the minds of the general public is the nightmarish nature of the so-called Arab culture.

Finally, this study proves that the most persistent theme in all the three decades is the West’s great concern for the safety of Israel.  Naturally all the millions who have read these novels would pressurize their governments to stand by Israel in the face of its cruel and blood thirsty neighbors. On the other hand, the novels always assure the readers that Israel is  a competent ally because it is far more advanced than the Arabs. Thus, maintaining the political stability of Israel as a super power in the Middle East allays the fears of the Western readers: Israel would prevent the unity of the Arabs, demolish their nuclear capabilities, and ensures the continuation of Arab oil supply to the West.

It is up to the Arabs, in particular, and the Muslims in general to take some more positive steps towards adjusting these distortions. The Arab intelligentsia may make better use of satellite channels and the Internet to present the Arabs and their issues in a more favorable way.  More importantly, we should realize the vital role literature plays in the shaping of public thinking. Hopefully, this bibliography will draw the attention towards the fact that literature does not only imitate but also sometimes creates life.

End Notes

1 Meredith Jones, “The Conventional Saracen Song of Geste, Speculum 17 (1942), p. 204-05.

2 Edmund Ghareeb, ed., Split Vision: The portrayal of Arabs in the American Media, Washington, D. C., American-Arab Affairs Council, 1983. p.iii.

3 Quoted in Shaheen, Jack, The TV Arab, Bowling Green, Ohio, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984. p.14.

4 Reeva, Simon, The Middle East in Crime Fiction: Mysteries, Spy Novels and Thrillers from 1916 to the 1980’s, New York: Lilian Barber Press, INC. 1989. p.v.

5 Janice J. Terry, Mistaken Identity: Arab Stereotypes in Popular Writing, Washington, D.C.: American-Arab Affairs Council, 1985. p.2

6 Fiction Catalog, yakov juliette and the gneeufieldt Eds 10th Ed. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company1983  P.364.

7 Ibid, P.  568.

8 Ibid., . P. 216.

9 The Middle East in Crime Fiction, 168.

10 Ibid.,   p.149.

11 Ibid.,  p.150.

12Ibid., p.152.

13 Ibid.,  p. 150.

14 Ibid.,  p. 154.

15 Published in the U.s. as Lady of the Reeds. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Soho Press, 1995

16  Juliette Yaakov, and John Greenfieldt, Eds., Fiction Catalog, 13th Ed. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1996, P.294.

17 Robert Brown, Library Journal v.121 (Jan.’96), p. 143.

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Author Index

 

Abrahams, Peter, 16

Kiteley, Brian, 28

Alan, Ray, 15

Kleier, Glenn, 31

Alexander, Meena, 30

Kloepfer, Marguerite, 16

Anderson, Scott, 32

Koppel, Ted, 13

Arathorn, D., 16

Kotzwinkle, William, 24

Aricha, Amos, 15, 19

Land, Jon, 31

Baldwin, Alex, 18

Landu, Eli, 15

Banks, Lynne Reid, 23

Lapierre, Dominique, 16

Barber, Noel, 17

Lawhead, Stephen, 27

Bar-Zohar, Michael, 17

Le Carr, John, 17

Belarmi. Rabah, 25

Leib, Franklin, 20

Benedictus, David, 13

Levin, Lee, 28

Black, Lionel, 12

Levin, Meyer, 14

Bond, larry, 32

Lichtman, Charles, 33

Bowles, Paul, 12,20

Lovejoy, Bahija, 17

Briley, John, 30

Low, R., 26

Brown, Dale, 19

MacEwen, Gwendolyn, 17

Brown, George, 22

Mackin, Jeanne, 28

Buchan, James, 18

MacLean, Alistair, 14

Bulliet, Richard, 18

Marcinko, Richard, 31

Bury, Stephen, 27

MacKinnon, Collin, 19

Caputo, Philip, 17

Mannin, Ethel, 12

Carter, Nick, 14, 15, 18

Mantel, Hilary, 19

Cartland, Barbara, 13

Marcinko, Richard, 26

Cawood, Chris, 27

Markstien, George, 14

Chafets, Zev, 27

Marsella, Anne, 24

Chapman, Vera, 30

Mason, Colin, 12

Charles, Robert, 12

Mason, Connie, 31

Christian, John, 12

Mason, David, 22

Clancy, Tom, 30

Masters, Anthony, 26

Clarkson, Geoffrey, 16

Mather, Berkely, 13

Clifford, Allan K, 23

Maudsley, Jere, 18

Cochran, Molly, 30

Mayle,Peter, 31

Cohen, Barbara, 17

Mayne, Elizabeth, 28

Collin, Richard, 25

Maxim, John, 31

Collins, Larry, 16

McGehee, Nicole, 26

Cook, Nick, 22

McInerny, Ralph, 15

Coonts, Stephen, 19,23

McKelvy, Natalie, 20

Coppel, Alfred, 12, 16, 19

McMahon, Barbara, 28

Coyle, Harold, 20

Meiring, Desmond, 18

Crowder, Herbert, 20

Melheim, Richard, 21

Cullen, Robert, 23

Mews, Webster, 14

D’Alpuget, Blanche, 19

Moreau. C.X, 28

Dan, Uri, 13

Morell, Jane, 20

Dann, Jack, 25

Muller, Marcia, 26

Davis, Lindsey, 23

Murphy, Warren, 30

Davis, Maggie, 13

Nance, John, 26

Deighton, Len, 21

Nelson, Walter, 15

De Rosa, Peter, 30

Oko, Atabo, 19

Dewar, Evelyne, 11

Ondaatje, Michael, 21

Dickey, Christopher, 30

Osmond, Andrew, 13

Dickinson, Peter, 12

Patterson, Andrew, 24

Drury, Allen, 25

Pearce, Michael, 20, 24

Durrell, Lawrence, 12,17

Peele, Collin, 26

Easterman, Daniel, 18, 21,27

Peters,Elizabeth,16,20,22,24,28,31,33

Eisenberg, Dennis, 14

Pineiro, R. J., 25, 26

Elkins, Aaron, 23

Pope, Liston, 25

Elliott, Richard, 18

Portugali, Menachem, 16

Epton, Nina, 12

Poyer, David, 20

Erdman, Paul, 11, 13

Price, Reynolds, 19

Evans, Kenneth, 9

Quinnel, A., 16

Faith, Barbara, 11

Radley, Edward, 13

Farhi, Moris, 17

Raj Bond, Larry, 28

Feder, Harriet, 25

Rathbone, Jullian, 22

Fishman, Hal, 15

Reid, MacDonald, 26

Fitzimons, Christopher, 14

Rhodes, Evan, 14.

Flem-Ath, Rose, 32

Riis, David, 15

Follett, Ken, 15, 16

Robbins, Tom, 20

Foote, Tom, 32

Robinson Lynda, 26, 28, 32

Forbes, Colin, 12

Robinson, Patrick, 32

Forsyth, Frederick, 23

Roscoe, Patrick, 26

Frankil, Sandor, 14

Rosenberg, Robert, 29

Freeman, David, 30

Ross, Frank, 14

Freemantle, Brian, 30

Rothstein, Raphael, 15

Freud, Esther, 21

Rubinstein, Paul, 13

Frey, Stephen, 27

Saylor, Steven, 27

Gardner, John, 25

Schiff, Barry, 15

Gedge, Pauline, 13, 18,24,27

Seymour, Gerald, 19,22

George, Margaret, 31

Shagan, Steve, 18

Ghosh, Amitav, 19

Shelton, Dan, 29

Gilbert, Michael, 11

Simon, Beaufort, 33

Gilman, Dorothy, 31

Simon, Frank, 32

Givon, Talmy, 31

Sinclair, Clive, 20

Glenowen, Owen, 27

Sitkin, Patricia, 17

Goldreich, Gloria, 17

Skinner, Michael, 21

Gordon, Graeme, 25

Smith, Cynthia, 29

Gordon, Noah, 15

Smith, J., 22

Graham, Winston, 26

Smith, Maggi, 14

Grover, Wayne, 22

Smith, Wilbur, 22, 29

Haddad, C., 12

Sofer, Barbara, 29

Harel, Isser, 14

Stein, Benjamin, 14

Harris, Leonard, 13

Stein, Herbert, 14

Harris, Rosemary, 17

Steiner, R, 19

Harris, Thomas, 12

Stevenson, Robert, 32

Harrison, Payne, 24

Stewart, Chris, 33

Hartov, Stephen, 21

Stone, Robert, 33

Herman Richard, 32

Sugar, Andrew, 13

Hild, Jack, 19

Tannous, Peter, 13

Hoffman, Andrew, 21

Tarr, Judith, 27, 29

Holland, Cecelia, 27

Temple, Frances, 29

Holt, Robert, 19

Thomas, Michael, 16

Holt, Victoria, 11

Thompson, Anne, 13

Horan, Hume, 28

Trevanian,, 15

Howard Stephanie, 31

Tyler, W., 16

Hylton, Sara, 22

Tsiras, Strates, 12

Ignatius, David, 19, 24

Uris, Leon, 18

Ing, Dean, 19

Victor, Barbara, 21

Irwin, Robert, 17

Warren, Christopher, 16

Jahn, Michael, 24

Warren, Murphy, 30

James, Deana, 24

Webster, Mews, 14

James, Leigh, 15

Weisman ,John, 26,31

Johansen, Iris, 28

Weizman, Ezer, 13

Jones, Harry, 21

Whitaker,Rodney,15

Kadish, Rachel, 32

Whittemore, Edward, 14

Kalb, Marvin, 13

Wilkinson, Marion, 33

Kaminsky, Stuart, 28

Williamson, Tony, 14

Kane, Henry, 11

Willis, Damon, 19

Kaplan, Howard, 13, 19

Wilson, Jonathan, 27

Keller, Beverly, 11

Wood, Barbara, 23, 29

Keneally, Thomas, 20

Wood, Lee, 29

Kennedy, Richard, 17

Wouk, Herman, 23, 25

Kinsale, Laura, 24

 

 

Title Index

 

666 plus666plus666 equals 1998, 27

Kamal, 16

A Clash of Hawks, 12

key to Rebecca, 16

A Parish of Rich Women, 18

Khamsin, 16

A Rich Way to Die, 11

Kill Box, 33

A Talk with the Angels, 18

King and Goddess, 29

A Thing of State, 25

King Tut’s Private Eye, 28

A Thousad Days for Mukhtar, 20

Last Act in Palmyra, 23

A Wild and Lonely Place, 26

Last Assassin, 18

Against all Enemies, 32

Last Camel Died at Noon, 20

Agents of Innocence, 19

Last Day, 31

Aggressor, 21,

Last Heroes, 18

Aleph Solution, 14

Last Inauguration, 33

Alexandros Expedition, 17

Last of Days, 17

Ali and the Golden Eagle, 22

Lieberman’s Law, 28

Allah Conspiracy, 16

Lion of the Desert, 20

Amber and the Sheikh, 31

Lion’s Bride, 28

Ambush at Osirak, 20

Little Drummer Girl, 17

An Army of Children, 14

Looking for the Mahdi, 29

Ants of God, 16

Lost and the Found, 24

Ape who Guards the Balance, 33

Lost Oasis, 26

Apocalypse Brigade, 16

Lying There, 15

Arabian Nightmare, 17

Mamur Zapt and the Girl in the Nile, 20

Arafat is Next, 12

Mamur Zapt and Night of the Dog, 20

Assault on the Venture, 29

Mamur Zapt and the Spoils of Egypt, 21

At Close Quarters, 19

Man with Many Names, 25

Baghdad Defection, 11

Manhattan Music, 30

Bank of Fear, 24

Masada Plan, 13

Bayswater Bodycount, 25

Memoirs of Cleopatra, 31

Beduin’s Gazelle, 29

Memory Cathedral, 25

Beehive, 21

Message From Absalom, 13

Beirut Pipeline, 15

Minstrel Code, 15

Beloved Rogue, 24

Mission to Beirut, 12

Billion Dollar Sure Thing, 11

Mona and the Arabs, 20

Black Cipher, 24

Monsieur, 12

Black Sunday, 12

Moroccan, 12

Blood of Scimitar, 18

Mrs. Pollifax, 31

Bomb Grade, 30

Murder at the Feast of Rejoicing, 28

Boxer at the Center of the Universe, 17

Murder at the God’s Gate, 26

Bright Star, 20

Murder at the Museum of Natural History, 24

Broken Bridge, 23

Murder in the Holy City, 33

Broken Sword,30

Mystery of the Kaifeng Scroll, 25

Bullets of Palestine, 19

Name of the Beast, 21

Burning Harvest, 17

Night Train to Memphis, 24

Burning Heart, 12

Nimitz Class, 32

Byzantium, 28

Ninety-Second Tiger, 11

Caliph Intrigue, 15

No More Lonely Nights, 26

Chasing Cezanne, 31

Noblesse Oblige, 29

Child of the Morning, 13

Notorious Abbess, 30

Circle of Reason, 19

On Eagles Wings, 13

City of Gold, 21

On the Brink, 14

Cobweb, 27

One of Us, 30

Crash of ’79, 13

Operation Uranium Ship, 14

Confessor, 25

Pandora’s Clock, 26

Constance, 17

Perfumes of Arabia, 11

Cosmetic Effects, 20

Petrodollar Takeover, 13

Cover Story, 23

Phoenix, 15

Cradle of Fire, 21

Pillars of Fire, 27

Curse of the Kings, 11

Pinpoint, 21

Curse of the Pharaohs, 16

Poison Oracle, 12

Damascus Cover, 13

Pope Patrick, 30

Damascus Gate, 33

Quest for the Red Prince, 15

Dark Armada, 26

Rabbi’s Wife, 13

Day of Wrath, 32

Red Horseman, 23

Dead Men’s Hearts, 23

Redemption, 25

Dead runner, 14

Retribution, 26

Death of a Nation, 27

River God, 22

DelCarso’s Gallery, 17

Rogue Warrior: Designation Gold, 31

Discovery, 18

Rogue Warrior: Green Team, 26

Distant Valor, 28

Rogue Warrior: Task Force Blue, 25

Doomsday Contract, 14

Running Through the Tall Grass, 31

Dread, 19

Sakkara,16

Dream Hunter, 24

Saladin, 13

Dreams of Empire, 28

Sand Blind, 22

Drifting Cities, 12

Scimitar, 20

Early Warning, 14

Secret of the Sheikh, 19

Eater of Souls, 32

Seeing a Large Cat, 31

Eichman Syndrome, 13

Seven daughters, 17

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, 19

Seventh Scroll, 29

Empty Quarter, 33

Shadow in a Weary Land, 21

Enemy Within, 28

Shadow Over Babylon, 22

English Patient, 21

Shattered Vision, 25

Fatherland Files, 23

Sheik and the Vixen, 28

Field of Thunder, 32

Sheik Daddy, 28

Fifth Horseman, 16

Sheik, 31

Fighting Man, 22

Shibumi, 15

Final Flight, 19

Show me a Hero, 19

Final Judgment, 27

Siege of Buckingham Palace, 15

Finding Hoseyn, 19

Silver Bears, 13

Fire Arrow, 20

Silver Tower, 19

First Air, 21

Sixty Nine, 26

First Stone, 30

Skinny Legs and All, 20

Fist of God, 23

Skins of Dead Men, 19

Five Gates to Amageddon, 12

Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog, 21

Flying Camel, 19

Sons of the Sheik, 13

Flying Hero Class, 20

Sword of Allah, 18

Friends, Lovers, Enemies, 21

The Glory, 25

From  a Sealed Room, 32

The Gulf, 20

Game of Thirty, 24

The Hope, 23

Georing Testament, 14

The Hypocrites, 24

Good Friday, 19

The Mahdi, 16

Good Hearts, 19

The Prophetess, 29

Goodbye California, 14

The Score, 20

Green Monday, 16

The Sheikh, 13, 14

Gulf Scenario, 18

Thirteenth Hour, 29

Haj, 18

Thirty-Four East, 12

Hand of Fatima, 15

Three Tales, 12

Hang Time, 27

Thunderstrike in Syria, 15

Harvest, 14

To the Happy Few, 28

Haven, 31

Tom Clancy’s op-center: Acts of War, 30

Heart and the Scarab, 16

Tongues of Fire, 16

Heat of Ramadan, 21

Torchlight, 32

Hidden Gods, 26

Tremor, 26

Hideous Kinky, 21

Triage, 32

Hiding Room, 27

Triple, 15

Hippopotamus Pool, 28

Tripoli Documents, 13

Honeydrum, 17

Trouble in paradise, 14

Hostage, 12

Turkish Bloodbath, 15

House of Dreams, 24

Twelfth Transforming, 18

House of Guilt, 29

Ultimatum, 25

House of Illusions, 27

Undertow, 32

Hunter, 18

Unfinished Business, 21

I know my Songs, 28

Vatican Target, 15

In the national Interest, 13

Venus Throw, 27

In the Shadow of the Nile, 22

Virgins of Paradise, 23

Innocent Blood, 30

Vulture Fund, 27

Israeli Commandos, 13

Walls of Jericho, 31

Jihad:World War in 2036, 26

Walls of Terror, 32

Jerusalem Conspiracy, 15

Wild and Lonely Place, 25

Jerusalem Diamond, 15

Winter in Jerusalem, 19

Jerusalem Poker, 14

With Extreme Prejudice, 13

Jerusalem, 27

Year of the Golden Ape, 12

Jihad , 14,16,19

Zed, 17

Jihad Ultimatum, 19

Zero-Hour Strike Force,18

 

Location Index

 

Location

Page (s) mentioned

A

Agadir

26

Algeria

22,25,31

Arabia

11,12,13,14,16,18,19,20,22,24,30,33

B

Baghdad

23

Beirut

12,15,19,21,28

C

Cairo

12,16,20,21,23,26,27,28

D

Damascus

13

E

Egypt

12,16,17,20,21,22,23,24,26,27,30,

Ethiopia

29

I

Iraq

12,22,24,25,26,27,30,31,32,33

Israel

12,13,14,15,16,17

J

Jericho

31

Jerusalem

14,19,20,21,29,32,33

K

Kuwait

23

L

Lebanon

12,17,25

Libya

15,16,18,19,20,23,32

M

Makkah

16

Madinah

16

Marrakech

21

Morocco

12,18,24,26

N

Negev

31

O

Oman

25

P

Palestine

19,29,31

S

Sahara

26

Sinai

12

Sudan

16,32

Suez

13

Syria

13,15,18,23,25,28,30,31