Political Parties Of The Middle East And North Africa

This major reference provides comprehensive coverage of the political parties and movements in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Frank Tachau and a group of prestigious scholars and internationally acclaimed experts on the region's political history describe the formation, evolution, and impact of parties in each of the 19 countries that are surveyed, and they also discuss Palestinian and Kurdish political groups.

Bibliographies accompany each chapter. The two appendixes are chronologies of important dates in the political developments in the various countries and in the region and information about the genealogies of parties where country histories are particularly complex. A general index and internal cross-references make the data about the parties easily accessible to the political scientists, historians, and Middle Eastern students, teachers, and professionals for whom the survey is designed.

Review: .,. is a handy guide to a broad spectrum of political associations that emerged in the various parts of the Middle East and North Africa in the twentieth century. ...It will be especially useful to those of us who do research and teach courses on the politics and recent history of the region. -MESA Bulletin