VOL. XXXIV

NO. 42

22-JULY-1991

Publications Received

The Cloud Over Kuwait by Marwan Iskandar. Published by Vintage Press,516 West 34th St., New York, N.Y., U.S.A. 1991, 214 pages. On the firstanniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, Mr. Marwan Iskandar, a notedLebanese economist and author, has published a book dealing not just with theimmediate causes of the war, but also with the Kuwaiti experience of governmentover the past 30 years and the major economic and political trends in the...