In 1980 Iraq invaded Iran‚ I distinctly remember this because we were in the U.S. when we heard the news. My Father decided we had to get back to Baghdad. We found out that the Baghdad airport had been bombed. This meant we had to fly to Amman in Jordan and went for a torturous overnight drive‚ on wooden plank seats in a vehicle that was more like a truck than a bus‚ from Amman to Baghdad. Saddam Hussein started this war‚ but before the war‚ Baghdad was actually prospering‚ yes he ruled with an iron
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countries where Arabic is the dominant language. • Arab countries are religiously and ethnically diverse with Islam being the dominant religion in most countries. • 22 Arab countries/areas: Algeria‚ Bahrain‚ the Comoros Islands‚ Djibouti‚ Egypt‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ Kuwait‚ Lebanon‚ Libya‚ Morocco‚ Mauritania‚ Oman‚ Palestine‚ Qatar‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Somalia‚ Sudan‚ Syria‚ Tunisia‚ United Arab Emirates‚ and Yemen. • Iran and Turkey are not Arab countries. ARAB GEOGRAPHY The Arab “homeland” stretches some 5‚000
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status as a caliphate‚ it claims religious authority over all Muslims across the world and aspires to bring most of the Muslim-inhabited regions of the world under its political control beginning with territory in the Levant region which includes Jordan‚ Israel‚ Palestine‚ Lebanon‚ Cyprus and part of southern Turkey. The group has been described by the United Nations and Western and Middle Eastern media as a terrorist group and has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States
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Sidon‚ present day Lebanon and Syria.|Trade‚ farming | Hebrews |Each tribe set up separate governments connected by their customs.|2000 BCE|King David|Hebrews migrated to a region known as Canaan‚ roughly corresponding to present-day Israel‚ western Jordan‚ southern Syria‚ and southern Lebanon.|Free religion| Babylonians |Highly-developed court system. One of its greatest rulers‚ Hammurabi‚ developed a code of laws that is now known as Hammurabi’s Code. This major collection of laws gives insight into
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interactions allows animals to share scattered shade trees under which they may spend 8 of the daylight hours in the summer heat. Around 1800 the Arabian oryx was thought to have occurred over most of the Arabian Peninsula (which includes modern Israel‚ Jordan‚ Syria‚ Iraq‚ portions of Egypt (Sinai Peninsula)‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Oman‚ Yemen‚ United Arab Emirates‚ Bahrain‚ Kuwait and Qatar). By 1970 it was found only in the southeastern regions of the Rub’ al Khali desert on the Arabian Peninsula. The last one
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World War I has a considerable impact on the geopolitical development of the world. After the end of World War I‚ spheres of influence of leading world powers have changed consistently‚ reducing the impact of Germany and its allies and destroying the Ottoman Empire as the dominant power in the Middle Eastern region. However‚ the effects of World War I on the Middle East had proved to be quite different from what the local population had expected because instead of liberation and expanding the territory
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Book Reviews Water as a Source of Contention and Cooperation Water Resources in the Middle East: Israel-Palestinian Water issues — From Conflict to Cooperation edited by Hillel Shuval and Hassan Dweik. Berlin: Springer‚ 2007. 454 pp. Olli Ruohomäki Dr. Olli Ruohomäki. former deputy representative of Finland to the Palestinian Authority‚ is currently .senior advisor with the Ministiyfor Foreign Affairs. Finland. The arid landscape ofthe Middle East and the expanding human settlements suggest
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Why was Israel so successful in dealing with threats to its survival in the years 1948-73? Israel’s success in dealing with the treats it came across was due to many factors. These included Israel’s military tactics; which is one of the most important ones. Israeli determination for an independent state‚ the disunity between the Arab people‚ territory and the role of the US all played a part in the triumph of Israeli survival in the years 1948 – 73. Israeli military tactics were a long-term
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1982 Lebanon War After the 1948 Arab-Israeli war‚ Lebanon became home to more than 110‚000 Palestinian refugees‚ after their settlements in Palestine and Israel had been depopulated as a result of the war. The large influx of Palestinians from Jordan after "Black September" caused an additional demographic imbalance within Lebanon. By 1975‚ the refugees numbered more than 300‚000 and the PLO in effect created an unofficial state-within-a-state‚ particularly in Southern Lebanon. These rapid demographic
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person who decided the family needed to live in Israel. Mr. Shelby decides he doesn’t want his daughter growing up as a spoiled uncaring princess. Mustapha‚ other important character‚ is an Arab boy who Lesley watches abuse his donkey across the Jordan River. All the Jews are not supposed to hate Arabs‚ but Lesley however comes in contact with Mustapha by the river and talks to him as a person not as an enemy. Mustapha made Lesley a more understanding person towards different kinds of people.
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