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About the Author
Iliya Harik, professor of political science at Indiana University, has conducted field research in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Lebanon. He is the author of Politics and Change in a Traditional Society (1968), The Political Mobilization of Peasants (1974), The Political Elites of Lebanon (1972; in Arabic), and The Illusive Path to Development: Economic Policies and Reform in Egypt (forthcoming).