pt. 1.Social and political change: -- Social reform: factor X / by Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb -- Arab unity and Arab dissensions / by Hans E. Tütsch -- Economic and social foundations of democracy in the Middle East / by Charles Issawi -- Social awakening and economic development in the Middle East / by Saþid B. Himadeh -- The middle class in the Arab world / by Morroe Berger -- Middle Eastern development, another missing link / by A.F. Mills -- Egyptian attitudes towards land reform, 1922-1955 / by Gabriel Baer -- Pan-Arabism and British policy / by Elie Kedourie -- The great catastrophe / by G.F. Hudson -- Political trends in the fertile crescent / by W. Khalidi -- The ideology of the Egyptian revolution / by Jean Vigneau -- Arab nationalism / by Nissim Rejwan -- Sudanese nationalism and self-determination / by P.M. Holt -- Turkey and the Middle East / by Andrew J.A. Mango -- Ideological crisis in Iran / by F. Kazemzadeh -- The origins of Israel / by Sir Isaiah Berlin -- Levant dusk: the refugee situation / by Stewart Perowne -- The Arab refugees: a study in frustration / by Mizra Khan -- Development in Iraq I / by Hal Lehrman -- Development in Iraq II / from 'the Economist' -- Islam and the theory of Arab nationalism / by Sylvia G. Haim -- pt. 2. Communism, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East: -- Communism and Islam / by Bernard Lewis -- Syria: nationalism and communism / by Walter Z. Laqueur -- The Arab Socialist movement / by Gebran Majdalani -- The Islamic community and communism / by Dr. Nabih Amin Faris -- The 'national front' in communist strategy in the Middle East / by A. Bennigsen -- Recent Soviet attitudes toward Islam / by Geoffrey Wheeler -- Soviet cultural propaganda in the Middle East / by Ivar Spector -- The background of Soviet policy in the Middle East / by H. Carrère d'Encausse -- Sultan Galiev: the U.S.S.R. and the colonial revolution / by A. Bennigsen -- The Shamil problem / by Paul B. Henze -- Nationalism and communism in the Arab world: a re-appraisal / by A.V. Sherman -- The future of culture in Arab society / by Dr. Muhammad Kamel Ayyad -- The Egyptian intelligentsia / by Georges Ketman -- Two Soviet views on the Middle East: -- The growth of national consciousness among the Arab peoples (1945-1955) / by L.N. Vatolina ; -- The revolution of July, 1952, in Egypt / by v. B. Lutskii.