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Both Left and Right Handed: Arab women talk about their lives. Bouthaina Shaaban, London: The Women's Press. 1988. 242pp. £5.95 In Search of Shadows: conversations with Egyptian women. Wedad Zenie‐Ziegler, London: Zed Books. 1988. 140pp. Khul Khal: five Egyptian women tell their stories. Nayra Atiya, London: Virago Press. 1988. 182pp. £7.95 Doing Daily Battle: interviews with Moroccan women. Fatima Mernissi, London: The Women's Press. 1988. 224pp. £5.95 Women of the Arab World: the coming challenge. Edited by Nahid Toubia, London: Zed Books. 1988. 168pp. Women of Marrakech: record of a secret sharer, 1930–1970. Leonora Peets, London: C. Hurst. 1988. £12.95 Gorbachev and the socialist project Getting Russia Wrong: the end of Kremlinology. Patrick Cockburn, London: Verso. 1989. 228pp. £24.95hb. £8.95pb Perestroika in Perspective. The designs and dilemmas of Soviet reform. Padma Desai, London: I. B. Tauris. 1989. 138pp. £14.95 The August Coup. The truth and the lessons. Mikhail Gorbachev, London: HarperCollins. 1991. 127pp. £13.99 Gorbachev and Perestroika. Edited by Martin McCauley, London: Macmillan. 1990. 222pp. £35hb. £14.99pb Gorbachev and Perestroika. Edited by Ronald J. Hill and Jan Ake Dellenbrant, Aldershot: Edward Elgar. 1989. 234pp. £29.50 The Long Road To Freedom. Russia and glasnost. Walter Laqueur, London: Unwin Hyman. 1989. 329pp. £16.95 The Gorbachev Phenomenon. A history of perestroika. Françoise Thom, London: Pinter. 1989. 141pp. £19.95 Gorbachev: the man and the system. Ilya Zemtsov and John Farrar New Brunswick and Oxford: Transaction. 1989. 462pp. £24.50 Second time tragedy: US policy in Panama Our Man in Panama. John Dinges, New York: Random House. 1990. Divorcing the Dictator. Frederick Kempe, New York: Putnam and Sons. 1990. Mahfouz: a great novel and a wanting translation Palace Walk. Naguib Mahfouz Translated from the Arabic by William M Hutchins and Olive E Kenny, London: Doubleday. 1990. 498pp. £12.95hb

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