Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s

by Salim Yaqub

In Imperfect Strangers, Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. In those years, Americans and Arabs came to know each other as never before. With Western Europe's imperial legacy fading in the Middle East, American commerce and investment spread throughout the Arab world. The United States strengthened...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801448832
• ISBN13: 9780801448836
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher