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  Middle East Maps - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection - UT Library Online
Kurdish Areas in the Middle East and the Soviet Union 1986 (254K)
Middle East - Desert Locusts From Issues in the Middle East, Atlas, 1973 (124K)
Middle East - Mean Annual Rainfall From Issues in the Middle East, Atlas, 1973 (120K)
www.lib.utexas.edu /maps/middle_east.html   (391 words)

  
 Welcome to Middle East Electricity
Middle East Electricity 2007 showcased over 850 exhibitors from 55 countries making it the leading energy event of its kind in the world.
With the Middle East labelled as one of the fastest growing regions in the world, the 41% year on year increase in the number of visitors is set to further increase for 2008.
This really underlines the power and effectiveness of Middle East Electricity in attracting the region's key decision makers and further strengthens the international standing of the show, which is ranked as the leading energy event of its kind in the world".
www.middleeastelectricity.com   (661 words)

  
 Middle East :: Travel to Middle East :: Middle East Journey :: Middle East Travel Guide
The Middle East is a political and cultural subregion of Asia, or of Africa-Eurasia.
History of the Middle East The Middle East is the birthplace and spiritual center of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Introducation of Middle East The Middle East is a political and cultural subregion of Asia, or of Africa-Eurasia.
middle-east.travel-chronicle.com   (990 words)

  
 MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project
This question, though predating 1967 and not the only one left unresolved by the war, is nearly synonymous with “the Middle East” in the global media.
Middle East Report asked six critically minded scholars and analysts for their reflections on what has been missing from the conversation about Israel-Palestine occasioned by the passage of 40 years since that fateful June.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice concluded her second trip to the Middle East in a month with little to show for her efforts.
www.merip.org   (1285 words)

  
  Middle East Geography Quizzes - Fun Map Games
Islam was born in the Middle East, and is now the second largest religion in the world.
Camels are traditionally used in the Middle East as beasts of burden.
Dates are native to the lands of the Middle East.
www.sheppardsoftware.com /Middle-east_Geography.htm   (431 words)

  
  Middle East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Middle East is a loosely defined term for the historical and cultural subregion of Africa-Eurasia traditionally held to be countries or regions in Southwest Asia together with Egypt.
The corresponding adjective is Middle-Eastern and the derived noun is Middle-Easterner.
The Middle East is the birthplace and spiritual centre of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Middle_East   (1474 words)

  
 Middle East - MSN Encarta
Middle East, geographic and cultural region located in southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa.
The geopolitical term Middle East, first coined in 1902 by United States naval officer Alfred Thayer Mahan, originally referred to the Asian region south of the Black Sea between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and India to the east.
The first civilizations of the Middle East, which grew in the valleys of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, are among the oldest in the world.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579298/Middle_East.html   (1101 words)

  
 Middle East Regimes and Terrorism
The Middle East includes 7 out of 19 of the most repressive regimes in the world and their weapons of mass destruction.
It takes only a cursory glance at the history of the Middle East to realize that for the most part, neighboring dictatorships have ruthlessly exploited the Palestinians for their own ends with callous indifference to the consequences.
The freest Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East
www.middle-east-info.org /gateway.html   (2958 words)

  
 Middle East
The most limited version of what the Middle East includes is set to Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Jordan.
In some cases, the Middle East is extended to include countries in North Africa with clear connection to Islam, like Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia.
The Middle East has in periods housed some of the most advanced cultures of its time, like the Ancient Egyptian culture, the Muslim Caliphate, and the early stages of the Ottoman empire.
i-cias.com /e.o/middle_east.htm   (499 words)

  
 WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--Middle East
Encyclopaedia of the Orient-- Alphabetical compendium of information on North Africa and the Middle East, which "covers all countries and cultures between Mauritania in the west and Iran in the east, Turkey in the north and Sudan in the south," from the LexicOrient directory for the Middle East and North Africa.
Middle East Studies Association of North America-- An academic group for the study of the Middle East since the rise of Islam, principally from the viewpoint of the humanities and the social sciences.
Middle East Virtual Library-- Excellent searchable information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies, to provide "access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media," sponsored by a multinational European library consortium.
www.etown.edu /vl/mideast.html   (1491 words)

  
 Middle East Vacations, Middle East Tours, Luxury Honeymoon Vacations and Exotic Middle East Travel Packages
The term Middle East refers collectively to Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Yemen, and the states and emirates along the southern and eastern fringes of the Arabian Peninsula, namely, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
You may call our Middle East Travel Specialists, but first...we'd really appreciate it if you complete our Middle East planners so we have all your requirements beforehand and are prepared to present you with the latest options and up-to-the-minute specials.
Disclaimer: We've worked hard to make all the Middle East vacations, cruise and travel packages information on this web site as accurate as possible, but it is provided 'as is' and we accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by anyone resulting from this information.
www.travelwizard.com /middleeast   (494 words)

  
 Middle East Vacations, Middle East Cruises, Middle East Tours, Middle East Wedding & Honeymoon Guide
The Middle East is best described as a glorious crown composed of the most magnificent, exquisitely rare jewels definitively placed throughout the region to preserve the relics of ancient, yet meaningful history.
History in the Middle East is rich and dazzling, dating back thousands and thousands of years.
Our Middle East Vacation Specialists are well versed with the region, which will save you time, money and stress when planning your vacation.
www.middleeastvacationguide.com   (470 words)

  
 Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
The U.S., the EU and Middle East Reform
The CSIS Middle East Program covers all aspects of U.S. policy toward the region, concentrating especially on identifying new voices, framing emerging challenges, and developing opportunities for positive change in the Middle East.
In addition, the Middle East Program pursues an active, "traditional" think tank agenda of concentrating on key states (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran) and key conflicts (Arab-Israeli, U.S.-Iranian, U.S.-Iraqi), holding periodic meetings and seminars, appearing on leading national and international news outlets, and publishing in both the academic and popular press.
www.csis.org /mideast   (332 words)

  
 Middle East Newspapers and News Sites
Publishes Middle East Quarterly dealing with strategic and internal political developments in the region.
Washington based publisher of the Middle East Report Magazine providing in-depth analysis of events and developments in the region.
Cyber magazine devoted to the world affairs in general and the Middle East in particular.
www.world-newspapers.com /east.html   (385 words)

  
 Middle East - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment announces the opening of its new Middle East Center to be located in Beirut, Lebanon, and the appointment of leading Lebanese scholar and public figure, Paul Salem, as its Director.
The Carnegie Middle East Center will help to better inform the process of political change in the Arab Middle East and deepen understanding of the complex economic and security issues that affect it.
Paul Salem, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, writes how the region is coping with the aftereffects of the Israeli-Hizbollah War in this chapter due to appear in a book being published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies in Beirut, Lebanon, under the auspices of Dr. Khayr el-Din Hassib.
www.carnegieendowment.org /programs/global/index.cfm?fa=proj&id=107&proj=zme   (1890 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Middle East: Books: Bernard Lewis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A noted Middle East historian, Lewis (Islam and the West, LJ 5/1/93) has written a 2000-year history of a region stretching from Libya to Central Asia.
The Middle East is a fitting capstone to his long career, surveying with broad strokes so many of the topics he has previously written about in more detail.
Lewis is the Daniel Boorstin of Middle East historians.
www.amazon.com /Middle-East-Bernard-Lewis/dp/0684832801   (2612 words)

  
 Peace in the Middle East
This argument rests on a false assumption, that the Middle East was stable to begin with.
In a Middle East that grows in freedom and democracy, people will have a chance to raise their families and live in peace and build a better future.
In a Middle East that grows in freedom and democracy, the terrorists will lose their recruits and lose their sponsors, and lose safe havens from which to launch new attacks.
www.whitehouse.gov /infocus/mideast   (2261 words)

  
 Middle East Program :
The Middle East Program was launched in February 1998 in light of increased U.S. engagement and the profound changes sweeping across many Middle Eastern states.
The Middle East Program's conferences and meetings assess the policy implications of long-term political, social, and economic developments in the region and individual states; the Middle East’s role in the international arena; American interests in the region; the threat of terrorism; and strategic threats to and from the regional states.
Recent events in the Middle East, including Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and the results of Israeli and Palestinian elections, generated varied reactions among panelists at a May 10 conference, which featured current and former government officials from the region.
www.wilsoncenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=topics.home&topic_id=1426   (810 words)

  
 Middle East travel guide - Wikitravel
The Middle East is a world region that is skirted by South-Eastern Europe, across south-western Asia and North Africa.
Sudan is, for instance, not considered part of the Middle East, although the country was in union with Egypt until the 1950s and share language, values and religion with other countries in the region.
The Middle east is thus not simply a geographical term, it is also a political one.
wikitravel.org /en/Middle_East   (233 words)

  
 map of the middle east and map of the middle east countries landforms rivers and information pages
The countries of the Middle East are all part of Asia, but for clarity reasons we geographically show them here as a separate landmass.
Historically, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been long associated with the Middle East, but in recent years, some sources now consider them to be more closely aligned with Europe based on their modern economic and political trends.
The African country of Egypt is still thought (by some) to be in the Middle East, as well as the northern African countries that border the Mediterranean Sea.
www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/me.htm   (341 words)

  
 Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
Nothing is as it seems in the Middle East, and author Parsi sheds light on the dark, back-door wheeling and dealing among supposed enemies - Israel, Iran and the US - going back decades.
The US military's assessment is sure to reflect its "can do" ideology, given that the future of the war and of the US position in the Middle East hinges on the reports and their reception.
Fueled by petrodollars amid the political tensions that arose after September 11, 2001, Middle Eastern movers and shakers are increasingly turning to Singapore as an alternative for their investments and commerce.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East.html   (7910 words)

  
 The Middle East - Global Issues
Given the vast energy resources that form the backbone of western economies, influence and involvement in the Middle East has been of paramount importance for the former and current imperial and super powers, including France, Britain, USA and the former Soviet Union.
Even in the 1990s, those ideas continued, where the bad guy is often a despotic Arab from one of the “rogue states” and as a result of the terrorist attacks against the US in September 11, 2001 and the resulting “War on terror”, such imagery is likely to continue.
The Middle East is the most militarized region in the world and most arms sales head there.
www.globalissues.org /Geopolitics/MiddleEast.asp   (1225 words)

  
 middle east map and map of the middle east countries landforms rivers and information pages
The countries of the Middle East are all part of Asia, but for clarity reasons we geographically show them here as a separate landmass.
Historically, Armenia and Azerbaijan have been long associated with the Middle East, but in recent years, some sources now consider them to be more closely aligned with Europe based on their modern economic and political trends.
The African country of Egypt is still thought (by some) to be in the Middle East, as well as the northern African countries that border the Mediterranean Sea.
worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/me.htm   (339 words)

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