The unique strengths of Israel's Middle East scholarship are displayed in the annual volume from the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University. The center's vast clipping archive underpins the country studies that constitute the heart of this effort. Particularly valuable are the studies on those countries for which Western reporting is most inadequate, including Iran (by David Menashri), Iraq (Ofra Bengio), Jordan (Asher Susser), and Saudi Arabia (Joseph Kostiner). The thematic essays are no less original: Eliyahu Kanovsky's sixty-seven-page essay is the only analysis of the Syrian economy available, and Martin Kramer's annual chapter on Islamic diplomacy stands alone. This is an extraordinarily valuable reference work; and to make the good news complete, changes in the publisher mean that this volume costs well under half of previous ones.
Middle East Contemporary Survey, Volume VIII, 1983-84
Edited by Haim Shaked and Daniel Dishon. Tel Aviv: Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, 1986. Distributed by Westview Books. 900 pp. $80
Reviewed by Daniel Pipes
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