Australia and the Middle East : a front-line relationship / edited by Fethi Mansouri. - London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2011. - ix, 259 p. ; 22 cm.

1--Exploring the Australia-Middle East connection /--Fethi Mansouri and Sally Percival Wood ----2--Perilous Encounters : Australia, Asia and the Middle East /--David Walker ----3--From Sudan to Suez : strategic encounters /--David Lowe ----4--Arab Migration from the Middle East /--Trevor Batrouney ----5--Muslims in Australia /--Abdullah Saeed ----6--Middle Eastern refugees in 'Fortress' Australia /--Fethi Mansouri ----7--Australia and globalized Islam /--Greg Barton ----8--The Israel-Palestine conflict since 9/11 /--Scott Burchill ----9--Military intervention in the Middle East /--William Maley ----10--Australia and North Africa : the missing link? /--Benjamin MacQueen ----11--Economic interests and the human rights challenge /--Fethi Mansouri and Jamal Sankari.

Traces the nature of the Australia-Middle East relationship, from an insular White Australia ideology through to the global impact of September 11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the new and menacing terror on its own doorstep. F Mansouri, Deakin University, Australia.

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