Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278) and index.
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The Middle East / David L. Long, Bernard Reich -- Peoples and cultures of the Middle East / Colbert C. Held -- The roots of Arab bitterness / Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., Lawrence Davidson -- The Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty / David W. Lesch -- The Palestinians / Ann Mosely Lesch -- The United States and Israel / Bernard Reich -- Israeli-Palestinian relations since the Gulf War / William L. Cleveland -- Ethnicity and nation-building in the state of Israel / Calvin Goldscheider -- Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? / Samih K. Farsoun -- The land and people of modern Iraq / Phebe Marr -- The Iranian revolution / David W. Lesch -- The Iranian revolution and the rebirth of political Islam / Anthony Shadid -- The US occupation of Iraq / David L. Phillips -- The role of the Persian Gulf region / Shibley Telhami -- The kingdom of Saudi Arabia / David E. Long -- Fissures in the façade of amity between the United States and Saudi Arabia / Thomas W. Lippman -- Egypt under Mubarak / Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr. -- Egypt : the community of Muslims / Mark Huband -- Islamist perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Haddad -- American power and the Middle East / Mark Huband -- The contemporary Middle East : some questions, some answers / Shibley Telhami.