Table of Contents

Part 1: Al-Afghani's panislamic project; prolegomena to a study of secret societies in modern Egypt; notes on the introduction of ministerial responsibility in Egypt; two plans for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the Sudan early in the 20th century. Part 2: ritual murder accusations in 19th-century Egypt; the Jews in 19th-century Egypt - some socio-economic aspects; the beginnings of modernization in education - the Jewish community in Egypt as a case study; Abu Naddara - an Egyptian Jewish nationalist. Part 3: a note on the leadership of the Israeli Arabs; the Israeli Arabs in the elections to the fourth Knesset; elections in Lebanon. Part 4: Turkey from election to election; the militant right in Turkish politics.