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McKay's Guide to the Middle East PDF

264 Pages·1965·34.291 MB·English
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G28m 515.6 Gellhorn 1307597 4cKayf s guide to the Middle 5ast UJ O*: o a. UJ S . U- ( | PUBLIC LIBRARY FORT WAYNE AND ALLEN COUNTY, IND. ALLENCOUNTYPUBLICLIBRARY -3H 833 00462 1477 McKay's Guide to THE MIDDLE EAST Also by ELEANOR COWLES GELLHORN McKAY'S GUIDE TO BERMUDA, THE BAHAMAS, AND THE CARIBBEAN McKAY'S GUIDE TO THE FAR EAST McKay's Guide to THE MIDDLE EAST by ELEANOR COWLES GELLHORN Maps by James MacDonald DAVID McKAY COMPANY, INC. New York McKay's Guide to the Middle East Copyright © 1965 by Eleanor Cowles Gellhorn All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or parts thereof, in any form, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. To NAN AND NED BESSELIEVRE and to our friendship which has continued and increased during the many years and many countries we have shared. library op congress catalog card number: 64-20447 manufactured in the united states op america van rees press • new york 1307597 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii FOREWORD ix PRE-TRIP DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS xi I. TRAVEL TIPS 1 II. INTRODUCTION TO THE MIDDLE EAST 39 III. ARABIAN PENINSULA 43 Saudi Arabia 45 Kuwait 53 Neutral Zones 57 Islands of Bahrein 57 Qatar Peninsula 58 Trucial Coast States 58 Sultanate of Muscat and Oman 58 Aden 58 Federation of South Arabia 59 Yemen Arab Republic 59 EGYPT IV. 61 V. IRAN 94 VI. IRAQ 114 VII. ISRAEL 129 JORDAN VIII. 170 IX. LEBANON 199 X. SYRIA 214 APPENDIX. Middle East Embassy Addresses in Washington, D.C., and U.S. Embassy Addresses in the Middle East 228 INDEX 229 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/mckaysguidetomidOOgell

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