Now in its seventy-second edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world area.
Key Features:
- covers the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Yemen
- includes topical contributions from acknowledged experts on regional affairs
- accurately and impartially records the latest political and economic developments
- provides comprehensive data on all major organizations active in the countries of the region.
Calendar of Political Events
- A calendar of events provides a convenient reference guide to the years main political developmentsGeneral Survey
- introductory essays written by leading experts cover a wide range of topics relating to the region as a whole.
Country Surveys
Individual chapters on each country incorporating:
- essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economy
- an extensive and up-to-date statistical survey of economic and social indicators, which include area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, communications media and education
- a full directory with names, addresses and contact details covering the government, legislature, political organizations, election commission, diplomatic representation, judiciary, religious groups, the media, finance, trade and industry (including petroleum and natural gas), tourism, defence and education
- a country-specific bibliography, providing suggestions for further research.
Regional Information
- includes all major international organizations active in the Middle East and North Africa, their aims, activities, publications and principal personnel; a detailed survey of major commodities in the region; a directory of research institutes specializing in the region; select bibliographies of books and periodicals covering the region; and an index of regional organizations.
PART ONE
General Survey
Chinas Role in the Middle East: Navigating Geopolitical Tensions
JULIA GUROL (revised by STEFAN LUKAS)
Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa
STEFAN LUKAS
Political Islam
BARBARA ZOLLNER
Saudi Arabia and Iran: Islam, Security and Foreign Policy in the Middle
East
SIMON MABON
US Middle East Policy
PETER HAHN
The Kurdish Question in the Middle East
CENGIZ GUNES (revised by LIAM ANDERSON)
Gas Rent, Industrial Lock-in and the Political Economy of Energy Reform in
the Gulf Co-operation Council
JUSTIN DARGIN
The Religions of the Middle East and North Africa
R. B. SERJEANT (revised by the editorial staff)
PART TWO Country Surveys
Sections on geography, history and economy, as well as statistical surveys,
directories and bibliographies for each country
ALGERIA
History GIANNI DEL PANTA
Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY (revised by the editorial staff)
BAHRAIN
History MARC JONES (revised by KRISTIAN COATES ULRICHSEN)
Economy MARTIN HVIDT
CYPRUS
History ANDREAS STERGIOU
Economy Revised by ANDREAS STERGIOU
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
History
Economy
EGYPT
History VAUGHN SHANNON
Economy CHAHIR ZAKI
IRAN
History EDWARD WASTNIDGE
Economy ROBERT E. LOONEY (revised by editorial staff)
IRAQ
History LIAM ANDERSON
Economy SILVIA NICOLA
ISRAEL
History VAUGHN SHANNON
Economy CHRISTOPH LEONHARDT
Occupied Territories
East Jerusalem
The Golan Heights
JORDAN
History COURTNEY FREER
Economy MANUEL LANGENDORF
KUWAIT
History Revised by CLAIRE BEAUGRAND
Economy MÁTÉ SZALAI
LEBANON
History NATÁLIA CALFAT
Economy ALI NOUREDDEEN
LIBYA
History RONALD BRUCE ST JOHN (Based on an original essay by RICHARD I.
LAWLESS)
Economy AMIR MAGDY KAMEL
MOROCCO
History NEIL PARTRICK (Based on an original essay by RICHARD I. LAWLESS)
Economy NEIL PARTRICK (Based on an original essay by ALAN J. DAY)
OMAN
History Revised by MARC VALERI
Economy FRANCIS OWTRAM
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Recent History Revised by VAUGHN SHANNON
Economy NUMAN KANAFANI, ISLAM RABEE and ANMAR RAFEEDIE
QATAR
History DAVID ROBERTS
Economy FRANCIS OWTRAM
SAUDI ARABIA
History BRANDON FRIEDMAN (revised by editorial staff)
Economy NEIL PARTRICK (Based on an original essay by MOIN SIDDIQI)
SPANISH NORTH AFRICA
Ceuta
Melilla
SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
History JAMES REILLY
Economy OMAR S. DAHI and MOHAMMAD AL-ASADI
TUNISIA
History NEIL PARTRICK (Based on an original essay by RICHARD I. LAWLESS)
Economy NEIL PARTRICK (Based on an original essay by the editorial staff)
TÜRKIYE
History GARETH JENKINS
Economy ABDULKADIR CIVAN
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
History KRISTIAN COATES ULRICHSEN
Economy PAULINE RAABE and MARIUS PARADIES
YEMEN
History VINCENT DURAC
Economy CHARLES SCHMITZ
PART THREE Regional Information
REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
MAJOR COMMODITIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
DOCUMENTS ON PALESTINE
CALENDARS
RESEARCH INSTITUTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (BOOKS)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY(PERIODICALS)
Europa Publications regional publications are compiled by a team of editors and researchers, with introductory and country-specific material provided by specialists in their field:
Mohammad Al-Asadi. Economist specializing in international development and financing post-conflict reconstruction, Afghan Credit Guarantee Foundation, Cologne, Germany.
Liam Anderson. Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA.
Claire Beaugrand. Senior Lecturer in Sociology of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK; and CNRS Researcher at the Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (IRISSO), Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, France.
Natália Calfat. Researcher at the Laboratory of Asian Studies (Working Group on the Middle East and Muslim World), University of São Paulo.
Abdulkadir Civan. Fellow, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.Kristian Coates Ulrichsen. Fellow for the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.
Omar S. Dahi. Professor of Economics, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA; and Founding Director of `Security in Context research network.
Justin Dargin. Energy and Climate Fellow, Middle East Council on Global Affairs, Doha, Qatar; and former legal advisor to OPEC.
Alan J. Day. Former Editor of The Annual Register, London, UK; and former Joint Editor of the Political Handbook of the World, Binghamton University, New York, USA.
Gianni Del Panta. Junior Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pavia, Italy.
Vincent Durac. Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Courtney Freer. Assistant Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Brandon Friedman. Director of Research, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Cengiz Gunes. Associate Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Julia Gurol. Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair for International Relations, University of Freiburg and Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Peter L. Hahn. Distinguished University Professor of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Martin Hvidt. Associate Professor and Head of Studies, Center for Modern Middle East and Muslim Studies, Department of History, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Gareth Jenkins. Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Silk Road Studies Program, based in stanbul, Türkiye.
Marc Jones. Assistant Professor in Middle East Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.
Amir Magdy Kamel. Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), School of Security Studies, and Fellow, Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Kings College London, UK.
Numan Kanafani. Research Director, Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), Ramallah, Palestinian Territories; and Professor, Department of Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Manuel Langendorf. Senior Analyst and Editor at Middle East Minds analysis and consultancy company, Berlin, Germany.
Richard I. Lawless. Late Emeritus Reader in Middle Eastern Studies, Durham University, UK.
Christoph Leonhardt. Chief Operating Officer at Middle East Minds analysis and consultancy company, Berlin, Germany.
Robert E. Looney. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA.
Stefan Lukas. Founder and CEO of Middle East Minds analysis and consultancy company, Berlin, Germany.
Simon Mabon. Professor of International Politics, and Director of SEPAD, Lancaster University, UK.
Silvia-Lucretia Nicola. Analyst at Middle East Minds analysis and consultancy company, Berlin, Germany.
Ali Noureddeen. Independent economic researcher and writer, specializing in the Middle East and North Africa region.
James A. Reilly. Emeritus Professor of Modern Middle East History, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Francis Owtram. Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK.
Marius Paradies. Analyst at Middle East Minds analysis and consultancy company, Berlin, Germany.
Neil Partrick. Writer and analyst on the Arabian Peninsula and wider Middle East.
Pauline Raabe. Senior Analyst at Middle East Minds analysis and consultancy company, Berlin, Germany.
Islam Rabee. Assistant Researcher, Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), Ramallah, Palestinian Territories.
Anmar Rafeedie. Assistant Researcher, Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), Ramallah, Palestinian Territories
David Roberts. Reader in International Security and Middle East Studies, School of Security Studies, Kings College London, UK; Non-resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington, DC, USA; and former Director of the Qatar office of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.
Charles Schmitz. Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Planning, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA.
R. B. Serjeant. Late Professor of Arabic and Director of the Middle East Centre, University of Cambridge, UK.
Vaughn Shannon. Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA.
Moin Siddiqi. Independent economist specializing in macroeconomic developments and the banking sector in the Middle East and Africa; also advises on trends in petroleum markets.
Ronald Bruce St John. Independent scholar, specializing in the political economy of developing states.
Andreas Stergiou. Professor of European Institutions and International Relations, and Jean Monnet Chair Holder on EU Energy and Climate Policies and the Eastern Mediterranean, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.
Máté Szalai. Associate Professor, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
Marc Valeri. Associate Professor in Political Economy of the Middle East, University of Exeter, UK.
Edward Wastnidge. Senior Lecturer and Head of Politics and International Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Chahir Zaki. Chaired Professor of Economics and Research Fellow at the Laboratoire dEconomie dOrléans, University of Orléans, Orléans, France; Director of Egypts pole of EMANES (EU-Mediterranean and African Network for Economic Studies); and Lead Economist at the Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt.
Barbara Zollner. Independent scholar, specializing in Middle East politics.
