Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa - A Biographical Dictionary

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. . . . This valuable work is highly recommended for large general collections as well as for scholarly libraries. Library Journal

Major Middle Eastern and North African 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. The book focuses on the period since World War II, a time that includes the formative years of many of the states, and examines the roles of these Middle Eastern/North African statesmen in the evolution of political life in their own countries or organizations and other political systems in the Middle East/North Africa and beyond. The geographical area covered is more extensive than that usually considered in works on the Middle East and includes Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Moshe Dayan, Saddam Hussein, Golda Meir, Muammar Qaddafi, Anwar al-Sadat, and Yasser Arafat are among the leaders included. They were selected because they are leaders of note who have had a substantial effect on politics in the Middle East and North Africa. 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 Africa, and the international arena. A brief bibliography of works by and about the subject follows each essay and provides sources of further research and information. Also included are a general subject index and chronology. This comprehensive work will be of interest to historians, teachers and students of Middle Eastern/North African history and politics and, because of its timeliness and relevance to current events, the general reader concerned with what's going on in the world today and why.

List 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, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, and currently serves as a consultant to various U.S. government agencies and is Chairman of Advanced Area Studies (Middle East—Fertile Crescent) at the Department of State's Foreign Service Institute and an adjunct faculty member of several defense and armed forces schools and institutes. He is a member of the Board of advisory editors of the Middle East Journal and has published widely on the Middle East. His most recent books for Greenwood Press include The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Historical Encyclopedia (forthcoming shortly),

curing the Covenant: United States Relations after the Cold War (1995), Iraeli Politics in the 1990s: Key Domestic and Foreign Policy Factors (1991) and Political Leaders of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa: A Biographical Dictionary (1990), among others.

Product details

• Authors: Reich Bernard
• Assisted by: Bernard Reich (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.1990
• EAN: 9780313262135
• ISBN: 978-0-313-26213-5
• No. of pages: 570
• Weight: 851 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Political structure & processes, Political structure and processes, Politics, Law, and Government: Comparative Politics