 | Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Middle East; Middle East -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1969–1974; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1974–1977; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1977–1981; Arab-I; In Imperfect Strangers , Salim Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade for U.S.-Arab relations, whether at the upper levels of diplomacy, in street-level interactions, or in the realm of the imagination. Salim Yaqub is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East . |
