The Middle East and North Africa 1971-72 [antikvár]

Foreword The Middle East and North Africa was first published in 1948 under the title The Middle East, in which form it continued for ten editions. The eleventh edition included for the first time chapters on eleven countries of the northern half of Africa, and Afghanistan was added for the fifteenth edition in 1968. With the eighteenth edition Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia and the French Territory of the Afar and Issa have been excluded from the book, so that the area designated by "North Africa" has been restricted to the Maghreb, Libya and Sudan, in addition to the U.A.R. The countries not covered in this new edition are dealt with fully in a new companion volume, published in February 1971, Africa South of the Sahara. The pace of political change in the Middle East and North Africa when this edition was being prepared during May-July 1971 has made it extraordinarily difficult to keep the information presented here up to date. However, the incipient or abortive coups in the U.A.R., Morocco and Sudan and the purges which followed, the suppression of the Palestinian liberation movement by the Jordánián Government, the announcement of agreement on a form of federation for six of the Gulf states, the settlement of the dispute between Algéria and the French oil companies, not to mention the sudden heightening of tension in Cyprus, have all been taken into account in preparing this edition of The Middle East and North Africa. Once again we would like to thank the numerous individuals and organizations who have sent us both revised and new information for inclusion in this edition of The Middle East and North Africa. Without their assistance the book could not have become a recognized authority on this important and rapidly changing part of the world. August 1971