Conditions of malnutrition, conflict, or a combination of both characterize many Arab countries, but this was not always so. As in much of the developing world, the immediate post-independence period represented an age of hope and relative prosperity. But imperialism did not sleep while these...

Introduction. From Arab socialism to neoliberalism : the politics of immiseration -- Arab socialism in retrospect -- The devastation of peace in Egypt -- The infeasibility of revolution in Syria -- Iraq--then and now -- The perverse transformation -- Permanent war in the Arab world