King Abdullah of Jordan and Nasser of Egypt both responded to British influence and colonialism by creating a nation‚ separate from Britain‚ that run on the same western and modernized principles with the hope of creating a reputation for themselves as a nation equal to Britain and other western nations. The British presence and control in Egypt caused Nasser to oust this foreign presence in attempt to create his own Egyptian nation‚ run only by the people of Egypt. Similarly‚ King Abdullah‚ after
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Articles Seliktar‚ O (2005) ‘Turning Water into Fire: The Jordan River as the hidden factor in the Six Day War’ Vol Books Bowen‚ Jeremy (2004) ‘Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East’ London: Pocket Segev‚ Tom (2007) ‘1967’‚ New York: Metropolitan Books‚ pp. 150-151 Gat‚ Moshe (2006) ‘Britain and the Occupied Territories after the 1967 War’‚ Lowi‚ Miriam (1995). ‘Water and Power: the politics of a scares resource in the Jordan River basin’. Cambridge University Press Oren‚ Michael B (2003)
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this war was the Balfour Declaration‚ which granted a home to Jewish people‚ and in this case it was Palestine. However‚ the British designated a land to the Arabs under the Hashemite Family rule‚ which‚ in 1917 was known as Trans-Jordan. The designation of that Trans-Jordan land to specifically Arabs was found in the Transjordan memorandum‚ which the Council of the League of Nations mandated in 1922. There was a significant migration rate to that land of Palestine‚ and the Arabs didn’t take it too
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September Black September is both the name of Jordan’s war on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the early seventies and the name of Palestinian terrorist movement created in revenge of the aftermath of Palestinian losses of the war in Jordan. Black September was a movement created by a break away Palestinian faction of Fatah. Fatah Is a Palestinian political party and the largest faction of the PLO. In Palestinian politics it is a more liberal group on the left wing of the spectrum‚ it
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Khulood al-Zaidi provides the most rational and structural perspective in her understanding of how the U.S. invasion of Iraq led to the displacement of Iraqi citizens. She describes the best cultural perspective through her experience working with Iraqi refugees‚ and understanding how their hardships resulted from the war. Prior to the invasion of Iraq‚ the region’s government operated on an elaborate patronage system in which most every employee‚ from senior staff down to the steward who brought
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The Fertile Crescent west of the Mediterranean and on the east by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers‚ and includes all or parts of Israel‚ the West Bank‚ Jordan‚ Lebanon‚ Syria‚ and Iraq. This is the birth place of the ancient world. The Fertile Crescent is a bow-shaped tract of land in South-west Asia stretching from Jordan northwards to southern Turkey‚ then swinging southwards to the borders of Iraq and Iran. Along its route it incorporates parts of Israel‚ Lebanon and Syria. The physical characteristics
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have to be successful. People of different cultures have to work together and come to a profitable solution. Often the value systems of the people have big differences. For example in China you have a complete difference behavior than in Germany or Jordan. If people of two cultures meet each other‚ there can be huge problems. A bad preparation‚ insufficient interest for the foreign culture‚ misunderstanding or conflicts can be causes a competitive disadvantage for the company and therefore increases
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Described as the "crossroads of western Asia" the Levant surrounded by Turkey to the North‚ Egypt to the south‚ Mediterranean Sea to the west‚ Iraq and northern Saudi Arabia to the east. The Levant consists of the countries of Cyprus‚ Israel‚ Jordan‚ the northeastern tip of Egypt‚ Lebanon‚ Palestine‚ and Syria. Geographically‚ this area became divided between the coastal plans of the west and the hill country of the East. As a result of rainfall‚ which decreases from the north to the south‚ the northern
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dependence can give rise to suspicion and conflict‚ which unsurprisingly has plagued this area of the world for centuries. The population in the Middle East has been growing rapidly‚ both from an increased birth-rate and immigration. For example‚ the Jordan River basin population has quintupled since 1940‚ to 15 million people‚ creating detrimental damage to both the amount and quality of water. More and more water is needed to keep up with the population growth‚ and the current consumption in the Middle
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Jerusalem‚ Jordan‚ Ramallah‚ Lebanon and Gaza. The pictures give an idea and reality to his readers about the problems that most Palestinians are facing in everyday life. Many people don’t understand how the life in other countries and how it’s too different from western culture. When there is a picture it makes the readers more into the subject because for a people it can relate to them in anyhow. Some of the photographs relate to me and reminded me of my life when I was a refugee in Jordan. Edward
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