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The ten articles of this festschrift consider topics related to the scholarship in the history of the Middle East of Kedourie (formerly London School of Economics) and written by ten of his former students. The topics include Schiller's theory of aesthetic semblance, the concept of the "civil condition", Russian theories of the relation of Islam to Communism and Socialism, C.J. Edmonds and the invention of modern Iraq, the causes of the failure of democracy in Iran from 1941- 1953, and Arab strategy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict from 1964- 1967. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)