Report

 The sources I used are from, Bowen Library web catalogue, Amazon, website: Google and YouTube, Augus&Robertson, University of Sydney Library catalogue.

 Search Strategy

 Bowen Library Catalogue

 Most of the Middle East items provided are from Bowen Library web catalogue collection. However the library doesn’t provide reviews of the books, so in those cases I decide use other sources to complete the bibliography.

I searched the catalogue using a general keyword as Middle East, Iran, Israel etc

 Subject Heading for items about Israel/Palestine conflict

 

-Arab-Israeli conflict

- Jews-Arab relations 1949-1967

- Jewish-Government policy

 

Halper, Jeff. An Israeli in Palestine: resisting dispossession, redeeming Israel.London ; Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2008.

 

Subject Heading for items about Iran

- Iran-relations- United state

- Iran-politics and government-1941-1974

 Kinzer, Stephen. All the Shah's men: an American coup and the roots of Middle East terror.

 Subject Heading for items about Iraq

 - Iraq- history-1991

- Women political prisoners-Iraq-Biography

 Sasson, Jean. Mayada: daughter of Iraq: one woman's survival in Saddam Hussein's torture jail.

 Amazon and Augus&Robertson

 Titles as “My war at home” by Masula Sultana were finding on different websites, by title or author, also images and review of the items.

Sultan, Masula.  My war at home. United States: Washington Square Press, 2006.

 University of Sydney Library catalogue

 The State Library of New South Wales have an extensive collection of monograph the  situation of the women under the Taliban rules and I find the monograph I chose that provide substantial and details information.

        I searched the catalogue using a general keyword as Women Taliban and I locate 15 items and I found several items relevant I chose the second item The women of Afghanistan under the Taliban.

 

Subject heading

- Taliban

-  Women-Afghanistan
- Women-Afghanistan-social condition

 Skaine, Rosemaries: The women of Afghanistan under the Taliban. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c2002.

 Relevance items

 

- Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. London: Bloomsbury, 2003.

- Porter, Venetia. Word into art: artists of the modern Middle East. London: British Museum Press, 2006.

- Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis: The story of a childhood.Jonathan Cape, London: 2003.

Daniel Barenboim Video from YouTube

http://www.danielbarenboim.com/video.html

Excluded items

Hopkins, T.C.F. Empires, wars, and battles: the Middle East from antiquity to the rise of the new world. New York Forge Books, 2007.

Empires, wars, and battles: the Middle East from antiquity to the rise of the new world is a historical book of Middle East from antique civilizations until the present. I excluded this items because doesn’t have good reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/Empires-Wars-Battles-Middle-Antiquity/product-reviews/0765303272/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1