Rethinking Civil Society: Pluralism in the Arab World

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 43-56
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About the Author

Iliya Harik, professor of political science at Indiana University, has conducted field research in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Lebanon. He is the author of Politics and Change in a Traditional Society (1968), The Political Mobilization of Peasants (1974), The Political Elites of Lebanon (1972; in Arabic), and The Illusive Path to Development: Economic Policies and Reform in Egypt (forthcoming).

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