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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Myth in the Desert, or not the Great Arab Revolt ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/4283869?seq=4 )


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is about the Arab Revolt and the players involved, it mostly focusses on Hussein, the Arab leader who participated in the revolt. This can be relevant to add to the topic, because it states some general facts about the Arab revolt. However, it appears to not be neutral in some parts. It talks about how Hussein was the 'bad' guy, not reflecting on the side of the British and French. This is why we will only use a short section of this article.


 * Sources
 * The most formidable critic of this mythologized historiography has been Elie Kedourie. See, for example, his: England and the Middle East. The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire 1914 - 1921 (London, 1956); The Chatham House Version and Other Middle Eastern Studies, (London, 1970); and, In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence and Its Interpretations 1914-1939 (Cambridge, 1976)
 * Most are British historians

Option 2

 * Article title
 * chapter 8 - The Rise of the Arab Imperial Dream (book) http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/Islamic%20Imperialism_A%20History_2nd%20Ed_Karsh.pdf


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article focusses on the of the Arabs and the Arab imperial dream, but it does not mention the imperial dreams of the British and the French. This is also not neutral enough to use because it does not give information about both sides.


 * Sources
 * Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987), p. 246. 9. Ibid. pp. 247, 249, 250.
 * Crone uses the term “primitive” to denote nativist movements that lack political organization: “Either they are members of societies that never had much political organization, as is true of Muhammad’s Arabia, or they are drawn from these strata of society that lack this organization, as is true of the villagers who provided the syncretic prophets of Iran. They invariably take a religious form.”

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Anderson, Betty S.(2016) History of the modern middle east: rulers, rebels, and rogues
 * Article Evaluation
 * This book has a good neutral stance in presenting the historical facts of the Arab Revolt.
 * This book has a good neutral stance in presenting the historical facts of the Arab Revolt.


 * Sources
 * Dawn, Ernest From Ottomans to Arabism: essays on the origins of Arab nationalism

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Bagatti, Fabrizia Lawrence of Arabia's secret dispatches during the Arab Revolt 1915-1919


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a useful article to give some information about how Lawrence became involved during the Arab Revolt. It gives a general information about him in the introduction.


 * Sources
 * Bidwell, Robin (1986) arab bulletin 1916-1919

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Dawn, Ernest From Ottomans to Arabism: essays on the origins of Arab nationalism


 * Evaluation
 * Gives an useful insight about what the Arab Revolt meant for Arab nationalism. Is useful to use for the conclusion.


 * Sources