Syria : society, culture, and polity

The product of a conference held in Apr. 1987 at the State University ofNew York--Binghamton, sponsored by the Southwest Asian and North African Studies Program.

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 incontemporary Syrian literature / Salih J. Altoma -- Asad : between institutionsand autocracy / Patrick Seale -- The nature of the Soviet-Syrian link under Asad and under Gorbachev / Helena Cobban.