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"Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study"--

A review and analysis of the status of information society in the ESCWA region four years after the World Summit for Information Technology, through a follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations, resolutions and action plans adopted by the Summit, and of relevant regional and national strategies and action plans. This issue contains also an analysis of the statistical errors committed in measuring the information society and their impact on the accuracy of ICT indicators. It presents also a review of the efforts aimed at integrating women in the information society, and progress achieved in updating the Regional Action Plan for Building the Information Society in Western Asia