Politics and Government in the Middle East and North Africa

by Tareq Y. Ismael, Jacqueline S. Ismael

"A concise and accessible introduction to the area, suitable for students of politics, history or international relations and a useful source of chronological and factual information for anyone interested in the region."-- Cambridge Review of International Affairs Contents
Foreword by Tim Niblock
Part I.  The Dynamics of the Region
  1. Introduction, by T. & J. Ismael
  2. The Burden of History, by T. & J. Ismael
  3. The Heritage of Islam, by T. & J.  Ismael
  4. The Legacy of Nationalism, by T. & J. Ismael
Part II. The Northern Belt
  5. The Republic of Turkey, by Walter Weiker
  6. The Islamic Republic of Iran, by Marvin Zonis and Cyrus Amir Mokri
Part III. The Fertile Crescent
  7. The Republic of Iraq, by T. & J. Ismael
  8. The Arab Republic of Syria, by R. Hrair Dekmejian
  9. The Republic of Lebanon, by Nassif Hitti
  10. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, by Kamel S. Abu Jaber
  11. The State of Israel, by Walter Weiker
  12. Palestine and the Palestinian Question, by T. & J. Ismael
Part IV. The Nile Valley
  13. The Arab Republic of Egypt, by T. & J. Ismael
  14. The Republic of Sudan, by Ann Mosely Lesch
Part V. The Arabian Peninsula
  15. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by Richard H. Pfaff
  16. The Republic of Yemen, by Manfred W. Wenner , Tareq Ismael, and  Jacqueline Ismael
  17. The Arab Gulf States, by T. & J. Ismael
Part VI. North Africa
  18. Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Great Jamahiriyah, by T. & J. Ismael
  19. The Maghrib, by Bahgat Korany Tareq Y. Ismael is professor of political science and Jacqueline S. Ismael is professor of social welfare at the University of Calgary.

589 pages, Hardcover

First published June 20, 1991

About the author

Tareq Y. Ismael is Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. He is Secretary General of the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies and founding co-editor of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies. His research interests and numerous publications centre on ideologies in the Middle East and international and domestic politics in Middle Eastern countries, with focus on Iraq.