Middle East Patterns, Student Economy Edition

Preface and Acknowledgments to the Sixth Edition -- A Note on Transliteration -- Physical and Cultural Geography -- Tricontinental Junction -- The Face of the Earth -- Patterns of Time -- Patterns of Peoples, Cultures, and Settlements -- The Desert and the Sown -- Riches Beneath the Earth -- Manufacturing and Transportation -- The Earth and the State -- The Earth and the State -- Regional Geography -- Syria -- Lebanon and Cyprus -- Jordan -- Israel and Palestine -- Iraq -- Saudi Arabia -- Three City States Along the Gulf -- The Horn of Arabia -- Yemen -- Egypt -- Turkey -- Iran -- Geological Time Chart