The Arab World - Forty Years of Change - Updated and Expanded

In the ten years since Anchor first published Elizabeth and Robert Fernea's award-winning 'The Arab World: Personal Encounters', vast political and economic shifts have taken place: the end of the Iran/Iraq War and the Lebanese civil war; the outbreak of the Gulf War; the historic 1993 peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians, to name just a few. Which is why the Ferneas, leading scholars in Middle Eastern studies, felt a need to return to the same towns and cities they had written about previously, to see how these changes had affected the region and the people who live in it...