Civil Society in the Middle East provides, in two volumes, an unusually detailed and rich assessment of contemporary politics within the Middle East, and is, in this sense alone, virtually peerless. It offers a wealth of new material on unions, political parties and professional syndicates, and other components of civil society, as the authors weigh the prospects for political reform in the Middle East. While volume 1 (ISBN 90 04 10353 8) presents orginal studies of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza, volume 2 covers Morocco, the Sudan, Algeria, Yemen, Iran,...

Launched in 1992, the Civil Society in the Middle East program has brought together dozens of leading scholars to analyze political life through an exploration of civil society within the states of the region. This is the first of two volumes to be published by E.J. Brill; it contains original studies of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza, as well as the prospects for democratization in the Arab world, the consequences of economic liberalization and contemporary Islamic thought on civil society and democracy. This first volume offers a wealth of new material on...