Arabs
Malise Ruthven, 18 February 1982
Heart-Beguiling Araby
by Kathryn Tidrick.
Cambridge, 224 pp., £12.50, July 1981,0 521 23483 2 Show More
by Kathryn Tidrick.
Cambridge, 224 pp., £12.50, July 1981,
Inside the Iranian Revolution
by John Stempel.
Indiana, 336 pp., £10.50, December 1981,0 253 14200 8 Show More
by John Stempel.
Indiana, 336 pp., £10.50, December 1981,
The Return of the Ayatollah
by Mohamed Heikal.
Deutsch, 218 pp., £9.95, November 1981,0 233 97404 0 Show More
by Mohamed Heikal.
Deutsch, 218 pp., £9.95, November 1981,
Sadat
by David Hirst and Irene Beeson.
Faber, 384 pp., £11.50, December 1981,0 571 11690 6 Show More
by David Hirst and Irene Beeson.
Faber, 384 pp., £11.50, December 1981,
“... Le Monde, is one of the few Western journalists to have received the Edward Said Seal of Approval. Irene Beeson lived for 16 years in one of the poorer districts of Cairo, and knows its people intimately, Together they have produced a masterful exercise in demythification. Sadat’s was a complex personality, but not an impenetrable one. First and ... ”