W. B. Fisher

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...

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...