TY - BOOK AU - Pipes,Daniel TI - The hidden hand: Middle East fears of conspiracy SN - 0312176880 (pbk.) : AV - DS63.1 .P56 1998 PY - 1998///, c1996 CY - New York PB - St. Martin's Griffin KW - Conspiracies KW - Middle East KW - Politics and government N1 - Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - As the first full-length study of conspiracy theories in the Middle East, THE HIDDEN HAND reveals how such theories play a powerful role in the political life of the region. Placing conspiracy theories in their historical context, Daniel Pipes shows how the idea of conspiracy has come to suffuse life in the Middle East ER -