This volume examines the impact of clandestine and overt political organizations in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq after World War I.

This book, concluding the Tauber trilogy which examines the political development on the Fertile Crescent examines the impact the clandestine and overt political organizations had in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq in the post-First World War Period. This includes analysis of Amir Faysal's short lived state in post war Syria, the development of relations between Syrians Iraqi's and Palestinians and the nationalist activity within Iraq.