Ethnicity, clientship, and class : their changing meaning / Richard T. Antoun -- Syrian political culture : a historical perspective / Philip S. Khoury -- Class and state in Ba'thist Syria / Raymond A. Hinnebusch -- The Alawis of Syria : religious ideology and organization / Fuad I. Khuri -- Land reform and class structure in rural Syria / Sulayman N. Khalaf -- The emancipation of women in contemporary Syrian literature / Salih J. Altoma -- Asad : between institutions and autocracy / Patrick Seale -- The nature of the Soviet-Syrian link under Asad and under Gorbachev / Helena Cobban
Notes
The product of a conference held in Apr. 1987 at the State University of New York--Binghamton, sponsored by the Southwest Asian and North African Studies Program
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-159) and index
