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This masterful compilation of biographical essays on prominent Middle Eastern and North African political leaders fills a void in the current reference literature...This valuable work is highly recommended for large general collections as well as scholarly libraries. Library Journal

Table of Contents

Preface Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa Ferhat Abbas Abdallah al-Salim al-Sabah Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud Abdullah ibn Hussein Michel Aflaq Salim Rubay Ali Yasser Arafat Hafez al-Assad Sabri Khalil al-Banna (Abu Nidal) Menachem Begin Zine el Abidine Ben Ali Ahamed Ben Bella Chadli Bendjedid David Ben-Gurion Salah al-Din Bitar Houari Boumediene Habib Bourguiba Camille Chamoun Fuad Chehab Moshe Dayan Suleyman Demirel Bulent Ecevit Levi Eshkol Fahd bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Faisal bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud Farouk Allal al-Fasi Pierre Gemayel George Habash Hassan II Hussein ibn Talal Saddam Hussein Idris I Ismet Inonu Isa bin Sulman al-Khalifah Abd al-Fattah Ismail Jabir al-Ahamed Kamal Jumblatt Walid Jumblatt Rashid Karami Khalifah ibn Hamad al Thani Ruhollah Khomeni Sadiq al-Mahdi Golda Meir Adnan Menderes Mohammed V Ali Nasser Mohammad Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Mohammad Mossadegh Hosni Mubarak Mustafa al-Nahhas Gamal Abdul Nasser Jafar Mohammed Nimeiri Turgut Ozal Shimon Peres Qabus bin Said Muammar Quaddafi Abdul Karim Quasem Shukri al-Quwatli Yizhak Rabin Rashid bin Said Al Maktum Anwar al-Sadat Musa al-Sadr Nuri Said Said bin Taymur Ali Abdullah Salih Yizhak Shamir Chaim Weizmann Yahya Zayed bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan Listings of Subjects by Country Chronology Bibliographical Note Index

About the Author

BERNARD REICH is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He serves as a consultant to various United States government agencies on Middle Eastern affairs, Chairman, Advanced Area Studies (Fertile Crescent) at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Defense Intelligence College and the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management. Reich is the author of Quest for Peace, The United States and Israel, Israel, the Middle East and North Africa, Israel Faces the Future (Praeger Publishers, 1986), The Powers in the Middle East (Praeger Publishers, 1987), and Israeli National Security Policy (Greenwood Press, 1988).

Reviews

?. . . the profiles included in this volume provide detailed analyses and assessments of the careers and achievements of many of the major Middle Eastern and North African political leaders of the post-World War Two period. The volume is an invaluable reference guide for students of the region, and a must addition to the library of anyone interested in learning about the people who shaped and continue to shape the political landscape of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.?-Middle East Focus

?In public and academic libraries these essays will be a valuable counterweight to the impressionistic information one can cull about the region's living leaders from the media. Both the biographies of active politicians and those out of power or deceased should be useful to anyone who wants to understand the present political situations in these countries.?-Booklist

?Major Middle Eastern and North Afrrican political leaders are profiled in this biographical reference volume. It is one of the few systematic examinations of the political personalities and leaders in this area of the world and focuses on the period since World War II. The profiles include basic 'who's who' information but reach far beyond that to explore the personal and political evolution of the individuals, their methods, programs, and goals, and their contributions to the political past, present, and probable future of their own countries, the Middle East and North African, and the international arena. A brief bibliography of works by and about the subject follows each essay and provides sources of future reserach and information.?-Shofar

?This masterful compilation of biographical essays on prominent Middle East and North African political leaders fills a void in the current reference literature. The essays, of substantial length and written by experts, cover 70 persons who have made an impact on world events since World War II. Designed to be used as a basis for further research, the subjects are cross-referenced and indexed by country and topic. A detailed chronology of events is included, and each entry is followed by a list of works by and about the person. . . . This valuable work is highly recommended for large general collections as well as scholarly libraries.?-Library Journal

?This volume profiles 70 men and women who have had a significant impact on the political development of the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa, Iran, Israel, and Turkey, since WW II. The entries are in alphabetical order and include biographical details, analyses of the individuals' personal development and impact on the political evolution of their countries, and short bibliographies of works by and about the entrants (the latter category largely in English). The personalities included were chosen by surveying major works about the region and by querying specialists about potential subjects. Essays, by 52 scholars and other specialists range in length from 4 to 12 pages. The volume also includes a chronology of events from 1869 to 1989, a short bibliography of general works on the political elite of the region, notes on each contributor, an index by country of the personalities included, and a general index listing each person profiled as well as events, other persons mentioned in the entries, organizations, and places. This title is strongly recommended for libraries of all types, as it not only provides succinct analyses of leaders well known in the West, but also synthesizes information that may otherwise be difficult to locate and in languages other than English on political figures whose names are not immediately recognized by the general reader.?-Choice

." . . the profiles included in this volume provide detailed analyses and assessments of the careers and achievements of many of the major Middle Eastern and North African political leaders of the post-World War Two period. The volume is an invaluable reference guide for students of the region, and a must addition to the library of anyone interested in learning about the people who shaped and continue to shape the political landscape of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa."-Middle East Focus

"In public and academic libraries these essays will be a valuable counterweight to the impressionistic information one can cull about the region's living leaders from the media. Both the biographies of active politicians and those out of power or deceased should be useful to anyone who wants to understand the present political situations in these countries."-Booklist

"Major Middle Eastern and North Afrrican political leaders are profiled in this biographical reference volume. It is one of the few systematic examinations of the political personalities and leaders in this area of the world and focuses on the period since World War II. The profiles include basic 'who's who' information but reach far beyond that to explore the personal and political evolution of the individuals, their methods, programs, and goals, and their contributions to the political past, present, and probable future of their own countries, the Middle East and North African, and the international arena. A brief bibliography of works by and about the subject follows each essay and provides sources of future reserach and information."-Shofar

"This masterful compilation of biographical essays on prominent Middle East and North African political leaders fills a void in the current reference literature. The essays, of substantial length and written by experts, cover 70 persons who have made an impact on world events since World War II. Designed to be used as a basis for further research, the subjects are cross-referenced and indexed by country and topic. A detailed chronology of events is included, and each entry is followed by a list of works by and about the person. . . . This valuable work is highly recommended for large general collections as well as scholarly libraries."-Library Journal

"This volume profiles 70 men and women who have had a significant impact on the political development of the Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East and North Africa, Iran, Israel, and Turkey, since WW II. The entries are in alphabetical order and include biographical details, analyses of the individuals' personal development and impact on the political evolution of their countries, and short bibliographies of works by and about the entrants (the latter category largely in English). The personalities included were chosen by surveying major works about the region and by querying specialists about potential subjects. Essays, by 52 scholars and other specialists range in length from 4 to 12 pages. The volume also includes a chronology of events from 1869 to 1989, a short bibliography of general works on the political elite of the region, notes on each contributor, an index by country of the personalities included, and a general index listing each person profiled as well as events, other persons mentioned in the entries, organizations, and places. This title is strongly recommended for libraries of all types, as it not only provides succinct analyses of leaders well known in the West, but also synthesizes information that may otherwise be difficult to locate and in languages other than English on political figures whose names are not immediately recognized by the general reader."-Choice