The Arab World

  • The Arab World: Personal Encounters
    By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Robert Alan Fernea, Elizabeth W.

    Beyond considering the history, religion, leadership, and current social trends in the Arab world, the authors closely examine the lives of its people to portray the realities of daily life in the Arab nations

  • The Arab World
    By Elizabeth Warnock Fernea, Robert A. Fernea

    Allison, our overall production assistant, was the one who pointed out that these former enemies in the joint patrols were bunking in the same buildings, on opposite sides, of course. But they had planted trees in the middle of their ...

  • The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State
    By Halim Barakat

    One dismisses the relevance of class analysis , asserting that the key to understanding Arab and other Middle Eastern societies is the mosaic nature of a society constructed on communal cleavages . Another admits that class analysis may ...

  • The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State
    By Halim Barakat

    Saint George, Khidr, and Elijah share a common identity, representing the popular deity of fertility and the cults of Baal of ancient Syria. Their penetration into all three monotheistic religions and survival and popularity to the ...

  • The Arab World
    By Allan M. Findlay

    This introductory text assesses how agricultural, industrial and urban development has evolved in the Arab region.

  • The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State
    By Halim Isber Barakat

    Presents an analysis of Arab culture and society.

  • The Arab World: Nation, State, and Democracy
    By Fawzy Mansour

    A particularly trenchant political economy of the Arab world, set within the dual contexts of the historical development of the Middle East and the evolving world economic system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR