R. B. Serjeant

Foreword As Professor W. B. Fisher has pointed out in his survey of the past year in the Middle East, two items have dominated the area since the appearance of the last edition of The Middle East and NoKth Africa. The first was the revolution in Iran, which reached its climax in early 1979, and...

FOREWORD The election of a new Israeli Prime Minister in May 1999 and the unexpected reactivation of the Wye River Memorandum (through September's 'Wye Two' agreement) contributed to a mood of cautious optimism towards the end of a year which had begun so uncertainly for the region, with the...