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promoting democracy while supporting tyranny may be the most damaging thing we do. From
the standpoint of democracy, Saudi Arabia looks much worse than Iran. We use the term
“Islamofascism”—but we're supporting it in Saudi Arabia, with Mubarak in Egypt, and
even Jordan is a police state. We don't have a strategy because we don't have a clue
about what motivates our enemies."
“Because of the strategic position of the
Moslem world and the restlessness of its peoples, the Moslem states
constitute a potential threat to world peace. There cannot be permanent
world stability, when one-seventh of the earth’s population exists under the
economic and political conditions that are imposed upon the Moslems”.
- The United States’ War Department first Intelligence Review
– 14 February 1946.
They're not blind. Our
actions are not in sync with our words, which is why they don't believe us when we talk
about freedom and democracy.
The term "Middle
East" originates with the American Rear Admiral, Alfred Thayer Mahan, who is
the first to use the term, in a 1902 article "The Persian Gulf and
International Relations", published in September in the National Review.
SCARLETT: I don't want
Tara, plantations don't mean anything when...
Mr. O'HARA: Do you mean to toll me Katie Scarlett O'Hara that Tara, that land doesn't mean
anything to you?
Why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for. Worth fighting for, worth
dying for.
Because it's the only thing that lasts. |
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world's Muslims |
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| The current catastrophic economic
situation in these societies is not merely the responsibility of their own elites. We have
to share the responsibility, because all this has been made possible through political and
economic policy of the European nations; and now we have to move to another way of dealing
with this situation. This is the point, I think. Western Europe is more responsible for
Arab countries than for eastern Europe. Eastern Europe had its own history with its
communism. It is a part of Europe but it had its own history and Western Europe was not
responsible for the establishment of communist regimes. Communism itself is a product of
European industrialization and thought. They cannot come to France or England or Germany
and say, "You are responsible for what has happened." After the Second World
War, there was a division of the world, but they had their own history under their own
responsibility. They had to speak with Stalin, but the Mediterranean countries, North
Africa, for example, since the 19th century, these societies didn't have the sovereignty
to decide their own history. Other people decided on their history even after
independence. It is totally different. This cannot be neglected. (Prof. Mohammed Arkoun) |
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- Lawrence of Arabia
- Munich
- Paradise Now
- Syriana
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| Great Projects |
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- Berlin to Baghdad Railroad
- Red Sea Desalination
- Suez Canal
- Two Seas Canal
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History |
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- Ashmolean Museum
- British Arab Bureau
- British Israelites
- Iran-Contra Affair
- Iranian Revolution
- King David Hotel Bombing
- Oil Shocks
- Operation Babylon
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- Ottoman Empire
- Six Day War
- Suez War
- Temple Mount
- USS Liberty
- Wailing Wall
- Yom Kippur War
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Influential People |
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- Abraham Isaac Kook
- Anwar Sadat
- Ayman al Zawahiri
- Gamal Nasser
- George Curzon
- Gertrude Bell
- Harry St. John Philby
- Hassan al Banna
- Herbert Kitchener
- Ibn Sina
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
- Lawrence of Arabia
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- Maulana Muhammad Ali
- Osama bin Laden
- Rabi'a al-Adawiyya
- Rumi
- Sayyid Qutb
- Theodor Herzl
- Vladamir Jabotinsky
- Winston Churchill
- Yasser Arafat
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Zvi Yehuda Kook
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Languages |
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- Arabic
- Aramaic
- Armenian
- Assyrian
- Azeri
- Balochi
- Circassian
- Dimli
- English
- Farsi
- French
- Georgian
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- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indian Dialects
- Kurdish
- Luri
- Persian
- Russian
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Yezidi
- Zaza
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| Regional Statistics |
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- Cities Above 500,000
- GDP, Per Person
- Gross Domestic Product
- Land Size
- Life Expectancy
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- Literacy
- Median Age
- Population
- Water
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Religion |
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- Baha'i
- Christianity (Maronite Catholic,
Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Apostolic, Armenian Orthodox, Maronite, Syrian
Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Chaldean,
Assyrian, Copt, Protestant)
- Hindu
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