Middle East

In the Middle East, agriculture is the largest contributor to the Gross
Domestic Product and foreign exchange, and is the second largest employer.
Yet despite its economic importance it is largely overlooked in the development
of new technologies and in the allocation of trained human resources.

Enduring...
“Taken together, it provides more information on education in the Middle East today than can be found anywhere else. The contributions of this volume should prove enduring...”–Edwin Terry Prothro, American University, Beirut, Lebanon The likely changes of the Middle East
Education in the Middle East is in a state of unprecedented transformation.

The seminar papers compiled in this book present a good overview of
the development of democracy and its practical application in Yemen. They
also shed light on the unique features of this particular democratic experience
and will help in deciding on how to create political awareness among our
people.

"The book provides timely, topical case studies,
information and statisitcs not available elsewhere in this form. The concernsraised
in the volume should be of value and relevance to anyone alive to issues
and realities of the modern world.

Only great men are capable of great decisions. President Anwar El Sadat
was a great man and his peace initiative was, probably, the greatest decision
a statesman could have taken. His decision to break the deadlock which
had lasted for over thirty years, to telescope the aftermath of war years
and to make his trip to Jerusalem, was a step unprecedented in the history
of mankind.