8vo. 631 pp., Arabic text, b/w photographs, introduced by Yousef Chouweiri, edited by Yumna Osseily and Ahmad Asfahani, hard back in d/w, index, copy in mint condition, new, Kutub Publishing, Beirut, first edition, 2005.

Synopsis

Papers selected from the archive of the ex-head of the Lebanese security Emir Farid Shehab. Reports covers internal Lebanese politics, the communist movement in the Arab World, Soviet influence, Nasser and Arab nationalism, the Syrian military cops, the Palestinian refugees, the smuggling of Arab Jews through Lebanon to Palestine, the radical Islamic movements, the Armenian secret army, the popular front for the liberation of Oman and the gulf, and opposition and conflicts inside the Royal family of Saudi Arabia.