public agencies and private institutions
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard Univ., 1737 Cambridge St., Cam-
bridge, Mass. 02138.36 pp. $4.95. Authors: Mark Heller and Nadav Safran
The history of Middle Eastern politics since World War I1 has shown that tra- ditional monarchies fall when a res- tive, secular middle class reaches a "critical mass." That has happened in Egypt (1952)- Iraq (1958), Yemen (1962), Syria (1963), and Libya (1969). Saudi Arabia could well be next, ac-...