"Democracy, Culture, and the Grip of Arab History" is a collection of eleven essays and articles in tribute to Middle East scholar Iliya Farid Harik.

Professor Harik was a highly respected political scientist at Indiana University who devoted his career to study of the politics, economies, and societies of the Middle East. A prolific writer, he is known for his strong research and unconventional thinking on such topics as democratization and Islam, economic reform, Egyptian society, and Lebanese history and politics.

Coedited by his wife Elsa Marston Harik and Denis J. Sullivan,...