Army Officers in Arab Politics and Society
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1970. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. xii, 514, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Tables. Appendices (The social origin of Egyptian Officers before 1952, and the Arab Officer Ranks). Select Bibliography. Index of Names. Preface by Walter Laqueur. Ink name inside front board, some soiling inside front flyleaf. Marginal and ink underlining throughout, DJ soiled & small tears.. A revised and updated of He-Ketzuna we-ha-shilton ba'olam ha'aravi) published by Sifriat Poalim, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1966. The author was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1914 and was educated at the University of Berlin. He moved to Israel in 1937 had has been a member of Kibbutz Hazorea. He served as the Director of the Department for Arab Workers of the Israel Ministry of Labor and as Director of the Department of Arab Affairs of the Mapam political party. He was a frequent contributor on Arab affairs to specialized periodicals. Army officers and military coups d'etat in Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Jordan, and Lebanon. This book has been translated from the original Hebrew edition and extensively revised. The author presents a detailed analysis of military coups d'etat, commencing with a survey of their history from 1936 to February 1966 in Syria. The author analyzes patterns of military coups d'etat and, in particular, the nature of military dictatorship and points of similarity and difference between coups d'etat in the Arab world and other regions. The author also attempts to define the role of army officers in the unfolding of Arab history: to what extent are they maintaining a tradition, and to what extent are they revolutionaries, or simply opportunists? Condition: Good / Fair.
Keywords: Army Officers, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Coups d'Etat, Ibrahim Abbud, Abd al-Mun'im Amir, Abd al-Salam Arif, King Faruq, Sami Hinnawi, Nasser, Mufti of Jerusalem, Qassim, Adib Shiskakli, Bakr Sidqi, Anwar Sadat, Husni Za'im
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