A legal adviser to the Centre and to the Egyptian People's Assembly, Alam-Eldin presents details of 34 cases that were decided by the body between April 1998 and December 2000 on supply, work and material, construction, consulting engineering, distributorship, tourism, freightage, investment, works contacts, a commercial business sale, lease contracts, sale and lease contracts, a commercial agency software contract, a management contract, insurance, and maritime cases. He points out that domestic arbitral cases relatively increase more than international cases, which he attributes to the Centre's persistent role in the few past decades to develop an arbitration culture in a legal environment in which arbitration was until recently an relatively unpopular phenomenon. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)