Tawfic E. Farah is the editor of the Journal of Arab Affairs and president of the Middle East Research Group, Inc. He edited Political Behavior in the Arab States (Westview, 1983) and co-authored Survey Research in the Arab World (Westview, 1985). James A. Bill is a professor of political science at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Foreword/Tames A. Bill -- Preface -- Introduction: A New Arab Man: Transformation and Change in the Arab World/Tawfic E. Farah -- 1 Arab Nationalism: A Bibliographic Essay, Elie Chalala -- 2 The Concerns and the Challenges, Saad Eddin Ibrahim -- 3 The Issue of Identity in Selected Arab Gulf States/Faisal Al-Salem -- 4 Islam, Pan Arabism and Palestine: An Attitudinal Survey/Stewart Reiser -- 5 The End of Pan-Arabism/Fouad Ajami -- 6 The Arab Road/Fouad Ajami -- 7 Arab Nationalism: A Response to Ajami's Thesis on the "End of Pan-Arabism," Hassan Nafaa -- 8 The Dying Arab Nation/William R. Brown -- 9 Stress and Disintegration in the Arab World/Abdul-Monem Al-Mashat -- 10 The October War and Arab Students' Self Conceptions/Paul D. Starr -- Postscript: The World Beyond the Words, Fouad Ajami -- Contributors -- Index.