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The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University is the institution's focal point for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on international affairs, societies and cultures around the world. The center seeks to make understanding the world outside the borders of the US and the country's in the world an integral part of liberal education and professional training at Yale University. The MacMillan Middle East Studies Papers address developments in the region, US involvement and the relations between Israel and its neighbors.

Publishers: MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies
Publications: The Archaeologist’s Spade and the Apologist’s Stacked Deck
American Palestine: Mark Twain and the Touristic Comodification of the Holy Land
America, the Second 'Ad: Prophecies about the Downfall of the United States
"Drying up the Euphrates": Muslims, Millennialism, and Early American Missionary Enterprise
"Benevolent Supremacy": Biblical Epic Films, Suez, and the Cultural Politics of U.S. Power
An Early Arab Encounter with America: The Story of Mikhail Nuayma
"A Grave for New York" and "New York 80": Formulating an Arab Identity Through the Lens of New York
Observing the Birth of a Nation
Ecclesiastic Warfare: Patriarch, Presbyterian, and Peasant in Nineteenth-Century Asyut
Ottoman Official Attitudes Towards American Missionaries
Representations of the Middle East at American World Fairs 1876 – 1904
When Palestine Played the Palace: Vaudeville Interprets the Balfour Declaration
The United States and the Specter of Islam
US-Iranian Relations, 1911–1951
Friction from the Sidelines: Diplomacy, Religion and Culture in American-Egyptian Relations, 1919-1939
US Advisory Aid to Turkey
The State Department's "Anti-Zionist stand"
The United States and Great Britain Navigate the Anglo-Iranian Oil Crisis
The Riddle of Islam: American Images and Interpretations, 1945-1969
The Eagle and the Sphinx: America and the Arab Nationalism, 1945-1970
Contesting Arabism
Black Gold, White Crude
Yale and the Study of Near Eastern Languages in America, 1770-1930
Hamas: Tha Agony of Victory
Al Qaeda as a Dune Organization: Toward a Typology of Islamic Terrorist Organizations
Apocalypse and Violence: The Evidence from the Reception History of the Book of Revelation
Eschatology, Violence, and Suicide: An Early Rabbinic Theme and its Influence in the Middle Ages
The End is Near: Minor and Major Signs of the Hour in Islamic Texts and Contexts
The Unholy Uses of the Apocalyptic Imagination: Twentieth Century Patterns
Symmetric Dualism: Bush and bin Laden on Oct 7, 2001
Political Expectations and Cultural Perceptions in the Arab-Israeli Peace Negotiations
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