Book reviews

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The Middle East Oil Decade and Beyond by Gad Gilbar. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xvi + 123, notes, index. £35.00 (hardback). Business and Economic Development in Saudi Arabia edited by J.W. Wright, Jr. London: Macmillan, 1996. Pp.xviii + 207, notes, index. £14.99 (hardback). Population Dilemmas in the Middle East by Gad G. Gilbar. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1997. Pp.xix + 141, bibliography, index. £27.50 (hardback); £13.50 (paperback). Eden, Suez and the Mass Media: Propaganda and Persuasion during the Suez Crisis by Tony Shaw. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. Pp.268, bibliography and index. £39.50. The Egyptian Theatre in the Nineteenth Century by P.C. Sadgrove. Ithaca Press, 1996. Pp.214, appendices, bibliography and index. £35.00. Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt by Walter Armbrust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp.275, bibliography and index. £45.00 (hardback); £15.95 (paperback). Redefining the Egyptian Nation 1930–1945 by I. Gershoni and J. Jankowski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp.280, bibliography and index. £37.50. Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival by Martin Kramer. USA and London: Transaction Publishers, 1996. Pp.297, index. £34.95. Anwar Sadat, Visionary Who Dared by Joseph Finklestone. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 1996. Pp.297, index and illustrations. £29.50/$39.50 (hardback); £15.00/$22.50 (paperback).