The Mountain Arabs: A Window on the Middle East (1968)

Format: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good 

There are small scuffs and tears around the edges of the dust jacket. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

What Sykes has done for Finland, he now does for Lebanon, and Lebanon in the midst of crisis, for the author wrote this book while living in a country experiencing the drama of last year's six-day war with Israel. The Lebanon Sykes got to know is prlete with contradictions. Half Moslem, half Christian, the country is equally oriented or hostile to the United States and the Soviet Union; mixed with pro-Nasser fanaticism he found sympathy for, or at least a realistic understanding of, the Israeli position; with reverence for the past and respect for tradition he found an eagerness to share in the twentieth century. - from the inside flap