8vo. xviii, 569 pp., 2 folding colour maps at rear, tables, cloth, title gilt on spine, appendices, index, copy clean & in very good condition, Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Oxford University Press, London, third edition, 1958.

Synopsis

First published in 1950. A number of specialists contributed to this useful compendium of political, social and economic information on Arabia, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Israel, the Sudan, Syria and Lebanon, Transjordan and Turkey.