TY  - BOOK
AU  - PRYCE-JONES David
TI  - The closed circle: an interpretation of the Arabs 
SN  - 1566634407 (pbk) :
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Chicago IL
PB  - Ivan R.Dee
KW  - ARAB SOCIETY
KW  - ARABS
KW  - LIFE AND CUSTOMS
N2  - First published by Harper & Row 1989, this edition includes a new preface by the author, the rest of the text is unchanged. The book sets out to understand Arab society using historical evidence to explain why the Middle East is in the state that it is and why participative civil society has not taken root there
ER  -