Middle East Patterns: Places, Peoples, And Politics, Second Edition - Tapa dura

This is the second edition of a comprehensive study of the Middle East from both a topical and a country-by-country regional perspective. Discussion of the physical environment creates the context for a depiction of cultural-political and geographical patterns which are the essence of the volume. "Then and now" pairs of photographs illustrate the developments of recent decades, and updated tables, graphs and maps are also included.

Colbert C. Held is Retired Diplomat-in-Residence at Baylor University. He served for fifteen years as a Foreign Service Officer with assignments in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, as well as successive temporary missions in every country in the Middle East.