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Foreword to paperback edition. Khair el-Din Haseeb -- Foreword to hardback edition. Khair el-Din Haseeb -- Part One: Historical Ties Between Arabs and Iranians -- Chapter 1: Arab-Iranian Relations: Historical Background. Abdul Aziz ad-Duri -- Chapter 2: Arab-Iranian Ties: Historical Precedents, Present and Future Confluences. Ahmad Luwasani -- Part Two: Arab-Iranian Economic Ties: Current Situation and Future Prospects For Devleopment -- Chapter 3: Geo-Economics of OPEC Members in the Middle East. Ali Shams Ardekani -- Chapter 4: Contemporary Arab-Iranian Economic Relations. Jassem Khaled al-Saadoun -- Part Three: Mutual Awareness between Arabs and Iranians -- Chapter 5: Mutual Awareness between Arabs and Iranians. Wajih Kawtharani -- Chapter 6: Mutual Awareness between Arabs and Iranians. Hadi Khesroshahi -- Part Four: The Political and Media Message of Governments and Elites and its Impact on Arab-Iranian Ties -- Chapter 7: The Media and Arab-Iranian Relations. Fehmi Houwaidi -- Chapter 8: The Iranian and Arab Elites and the Evolving Rationality. Mashaallah Shams al-Waezin -- Part Five: The Image of Arabs and Iranians in Schoolbooks -- Chapter 9: The Image of the Arabs in Iranian Schoolbooks. Ghoulam Ali Haddad Adel -- Chapter 10: The Image of the Iranians in Arab Schoolbooks. Talal Atrissi -- Part Six: The Status of Arab and Iranian Women -- Chapter 11: The Status of Women in Contemporary Iran: Trends and Prospects. Massoumeh Ebtekar -- Chapter 12: The Status of Women in the Arab World. Mariam Selim -- Part Seven: Border and Territorial Disputes between Arabs and Iranians -- Chapter 13: The Dispute Between the United Arab Emirates and Iran over Three Islands. Shimlan el-Issa -- Chapter 14: Iraq-Iranian Boundary and Territorial Disputes. Sayyar al-Jamil -- Chapter 15: Arab-Iranian Territorial Disputes: Cooperation in the Region, not Confrontation. Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh -- Part Eight: The Kurdish Question -- Chapter 16: Arab and Iranian Positions on the Kurdish Que