Middle East Contemporary Survey: v. 20

The Middle East Contemporary Survey is the authoritative reference work on contemporary Middle Eastern affairs. Volume 20, which covers the region through 1996, is the latest in a series of annual surveys which provide a continuing record and analysis of the rapidly changing events in this complex area of the world. Some of the events that are analyzed include the future of the Arab-Israeli peace process; the change of government in Israel; the ascent of an Islamist-led coalition coalition government in Turkey (traditionally the most secular of all Middle Eastern Muslim countries); the growing discontent with the established Islamic order in Iran; and the continuing violent confrontation between the regime and the Islamist opposition in Algeria.