West emerging from East/ Ruth Nanda Anshen.- Ancient Near East: cradle of history/ E.A. Speiser.- Judaeo-Christian heritage/ Jack Finegan.- World-center of Islam/ Edwin E. Calverley.- The desert and the land/ Carleton S. Coon.- Mid-land, mid-sea, mid-air/ Ernest Jackh.- World-center of oil/ Harold B. Hoskins.- Political institutions/ George Lenczowski.- Economic and social conditions/ Charles Issawi.- Woman/ Nabia Abbott.- Education/ Taha Hussein.- From religious to national law/ Majid Khadduri.- Language/ Louis Massingnon. Art/ Mehmet Aga-Oglu.- Science/ George Sarton.- Nationalism and imperialism/ Hans Kohn.- Communism and Islam/ Bernard Lewis.- The example of Turkey/ Ernest Jackh.- The phenomenon of Israel/ Samuel Hugo Bergman.- West returning to East/ Ru