This all-new edition of the classic Arab Society: Social Science Perspectives, containing thirty new articles by leading scholars, examines Arab society in the 1990s. Articles by scholars from many countries explore such subjects as Arab unity and identity; demographic processes; the roles of men, women, and family; rural social change; political developments; and religious change. For students, scholars, and general readers alike, Arab Society offers up-to-date analysis and discussion of the social, political, and economic transformations that face the region today.

NICHOLAS S. HOPKINS is professor of anthropology at the American University in Cairo. SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM is professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo, and is the author of Egypt, Islam, and Democracy: Twelve Critical Essays (AUC Press, 1996).