cover image Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage

Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage

David Lamb. Vintage Books USA, $15 (333pp) ISBN 978-0-394-75758-2

``The Arab world167 million people in 18 countriesis, as Lamb (The Africans) reminds us, full of contradictions. . . . Here he goes a long way toward sorting them out, stripping away stereotypes to reveal the extraordinary degree to which Arabs are misjudged in the West,'' noted PW. Photos. (August)