Itamar Rabinovich is Professor of Middle Eastern and African History and Head of the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University.Haim Shaked is Professor of Middle Eastern and African History and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center. They are coeditors of The Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies.Ami Ayalon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University.

• Preface -- Transliteration -- List of Sources -- Current Issues -- The Middle East in Perspective -- The Middle East in 1987: A Year of Kaleidoscopic Change -- The Middle East and World Affairs -- The United States’ Middle East Policy in 1987 -- The Soviet Union and the Middle East in 1987 -- Arab-Israeli Relations -- The Middle East Peace Process -- Armed Operations -- Intraregional and Muslim Affairs -- Inter-Arab Relations -- Islam’s Enduring Feud -- The Iraqi-Iranian War -- Palestinian Issues -- The Palestine Liberation Organization -- The West Bank and the Gaza Strip -- Middle East Economic Issues -- Middle East Oil Developments -- Arab Labor Mobility in the Middle East in a Period of Economic Recession, 1982-87 -- Country-By-Country Survey -- Middle East Countries -- The Arab Republic of Egypt (Jumhuriyyat Misr al-'Arabiyya) -- The Gulf States -- Bahrain -- Kuwait -- Oman -- Qatar -- The United Arab Emirates -- Iran (Jumhuriyye Islamiyye Iran) -- Iraq (Al-Jumhuriyya al-‘Iraqiyya) -- Israel (Medinat Yisrael) -- Jordan (Al-Mamlaka al-Urdunniyya al-Hashimiyya) -- Lebanon (Al-Jumhuriyya al-Lubnaniyya) -- Libya (Al-Jamahiriyya al-‘Arabiyya al-Libiyya al-Sha‘biyya al-Ishtirakiyya al-‘Uzma)1 -- The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (Jumhuriyyat al-Yaman al-Sha‘biyya al-Dimuqratiyya) -- The Saudi Arabian Kingdom (Al-Mamlaka al-‘Arabiyya al-Sa‘udiyya) -- The Republic of Sudan (Jumhuriyyat al-Sudan) -- The Arab Republic of Syria (Al-Jumhuriyya al-‘Arabiyya al-Suriyya) -- Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) -- The Yemeni Arab Republic (Al-Jumhuriyya al-‘Arabiyya al-Yamaniyya)

Itamar Rabinovich is Professor of Middle Eastern and African History and Head of the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University.Haim Shaked is Professor of Middle Eastern and African History and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center. They are coeditors of The Middle East and the United States: Perceptions and Policies.Ami Ayalon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History and Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University.

• Preface -- Transliteration -- List of Sources -- Current Issues -- The Middle East in Perspective -- The Middle East in 1987: A Year of Kaleidoscopic Change -- The Middle East and World Affairs -- The United States’ Middle East Policy in 1987 -- The Soviet Union and the Middle East in 1987 -- Arab-Israeli Relations -- The Middle East Peace Process -- Armed Operations -- Intraregional and Muslim Affairs -- Inter-Arab Relations -- Islam’s Enduring Feud -- The Iraqi-Iranian War -- Palestinian Issues -- The Palestine Liberation Organization -- The West Bank and the Gaza Strip -- Middle East Economic Issues -- Middle East Oil Developments -- Arab Labor Mobility in the Middle East in a Period of Economic Recession, 1982-87 -- Country-By-Country Survey -- Middle East Countries -- The Arab Republic of Egypt (Jumhuriyyat Misr al-'Arabiyya) -- The Gulf States -- Bahrain -- Kuwait -- Oman -- Qatar -- The United Arab Emirates -- Iran (Jumhuriyye Islamiyye Iran) -- Iraq (Al-Jumhuriyya al-‘Iraqiyya) -- Israel (Medinat Yisrael) -- Jordan (Al-Mamlaka al-Urdunniyya al-Hashimiyya) -- Lebanon (Al-Jumhuriyya al-Lubnaniyya) -- Libya (Al-Jamahiriyya al-‘Arabiyya al-Libiyya al-Sha‘biyya al-Ishtirakiyya al-‘Uzma)1 -- The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (Jumhuriyyat al-Yaman al-Sha‘biyya al-Dimuqratiyya) -- The Saudi Arabian Kingdom (Al-Mamlaka al-‘Arabiyya al-Sa‘udiyya) -- The Republic of Sudan (Jumhuriyyat al-Sudan) -- The Arab Republic of Syria (Al-Jumhuriyya al-‘Arabiyya al-Suriyya) -- Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti) -- The Yemeni Arab Republic (Al-Jumhuriyya al-‘Arabiyya al-Yamaniyya)