Communist parties in the Middle East: 100 years of history

Iran's Communist movement : reform and revolution / Yassamine Mather -- The Communist Party of Turkey : an instrument of Soviet Eastern policy? / Bulent Gökay -- The Iraqi Communist Party / Johan Franzén -- The Lebanese Communist Party : continuity against all odds / Rosa Velasco Muñoz -- The Syrian Communist Party : patrimonialism and fractures / Rosa Velasco Muñoz -- Class and nation : Arab and Jewish Communists in Palestine / Musa Budeiri -- The Communist Movement in Egypt / Bárbara Azaola -- Communism and Organizational Symbiosis in South Yemen : The People's Democratic Union, the National Liberation Front, and the Yemeni Socialist Party / John Ishiyama -- The Sudan Communist Party : "Bolshevize it, O God!" / Abdullahi A. Ibrahim -- The Communists in Algeria (1920-93) / Pierre-Jean Le Foll-Luciani -- The four faces of Morocco's Communists : PCF, MCP, PLS and PPS / Bernabé López García -- Islamists and Communists : A history of Arab convergenze parallele / Luz Gómez García -- The new left in 1960-70s Lebanon and 1917 as model and foil / Laure Guirguis -- From Marxism to anti-authoritarianism : Egypt's new left / Laura Galián -- Women and left in the Middle East : the voice of the protagonists : an interview with Azza Chararah Baydoun / Natalia Ribas-Mateos

The book has been designed to offer a unique, updated and comprehensive study of Communist parties in the Middle East, based on a theoretical framework of analysis, substantial empirical research and archive documentation.