The countries in the Middle East and North Africa involved in the Arab Spring find themselves at the forefront of lived experience of injustice and repression. ... That said, Islam, both as a religion and culture, is and will always remain an integral part of any emerging political order in the Middle East. ... Although the Arab Spring's main goal was to improve the livelihood of Arab citizens, the economy of the Middle East has suffered greatly since the start of the Arab Spring movement. The Arab Spring significantly impacted the economic activity in North Africa and the Middle East. ....

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The truth of the matter is that even though such groups have their epicenter in the Middle East, their atrocities are meted out on people who often are in different regions of the world. ... This essay discusses the threat of radical Islam in the Middle East and why the US should worry over the ability of domestic terrorists to collaborate with terrorists from the Middle East. The Threat of Radical Islam in the Middle East Radical Islam in the Middle East poses a threat on peace not only in the region but to the Western world since jihadists view the West as enemies of their fundamentalist i...

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Looking at Middle Eastern states such as Saudi Arabia and Iran; it would be easy to say that Islam paints a picture of gender inequality from a broad perspective. ... It could be argued that there are other factors behind the reason why the rate of gender inequality has been high in Middle Eastern countries. ... The main point being said is that Islam itself does not promote gender inequality; though it has been seen as a tool of "promotion" of gender inequality, but one can add that even if muslims have wrongfully promoted gender inequality in the name of Islam, that is not solely r...

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He was most effective in creating interest by awakening Victorian morality concerning the still active slave trade occurring in east Africa. ... The British had been present in Nigeria since the middle of the 19th century with many small companies involved in the palm oil and coco industries in 1879 these small companies were merged together through the leadership of George Goldie producing The Royal Niger Company. ... France was moving east from Senegal. ... Salisbury spent much of his time hyping this idea and in the process found McKinnon and his British East Africa Company. The British Eas...

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Israel stopped its armoured vehicles sixteen kilometers west of the Suez Canal, yet Egypt, who was ordered to immobilize sixteen kilometers east of the Suez Canal, refused to comply with the British. ... Nevertheless, peace could not be maintained in the Middle East. ... By 1967 the Middle East erupted once more. ... After all these actions, Israel turned into the super power of the Middle East, with "its forces sitting on a large expanse of territory extending from the banks of the Suez Canal to the Jordan River and the Golan Heights" . ... The U.N operations that took place in the Middle ...

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And terrorists "are Islamic extremists aggregating in the Middle Eastern and North African regions; devising plans to wreak terror in the lives of innocent people. ... Furthermore, governments in the Middle East and North Africa have for many years adopted laws and policies in the name of combating violence or "terrorism-, which are not in consistency with their obligations under human rights law and standards. ... Since the September 11th attacks in the US several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have taken or stepped up measures presented as "efforts of combating terroris...

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Due to it's proximity to these important resources, Turkey is in a perfect position to host a large pipeline (Nabucco Gas Pipeline) that will carry gas from the Caspian Sea to the Middle East. ... With EU's dependence on external oil supplies rising to 90% by 2020 with imports derived substantially from politically unstable areas, notably in the Middle East and Russia, whose share of Europe's import market has been growing in recent years. ...

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The Definition of Israel Before we begin, let me remind you of the definition of Israel. Israel considers itself to be a Jewish state (formally codified in its 1948 Declaration of Independence), which means that its entire purpose is to provide what is commonly referred to as a "Jewish homeland". Why a race or religion must have a singular nation-state forcibly created for it is something of a mystery; my sons are white/Asian interracial, so they have no "racial homeland"; should this be considered a crisis? The natives of the Americas have no distinct "homeland" either; should families be di...

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The term, "Orientalism," has been used for centuries by scholars, historians, and librarians alike in reference to the Middle East and the Near East. ... The area(s) that can be included under the term ˜Orient' can of course be debated, but for the simplicity sake of this paper, will refer mainly to the Middle East and North Africa. ... Educationally, the domination has been so complete for such an amount of time that Said goes as far as to say that even supposed outwardly objective Western texts and literary works on the East have been long-permeated with bias that it was unrecogn...

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First the author explains that the French politicians were impressed by the idea of having some part of east in short-term (some land from a very developed agricultural society-Turkey-), the thought of capturing the Ottoman Empire's lands that include the middle-east which the French politicians can't wait to get a part from. ... As time passes the British War Council decided to send the famous 29th Division to the East from Europe and General Sir Ian Hamilton is appointed as commander-in-chief for the operation. ...

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The extremely argument in the middle of vote based system and imperialism recognizes Europe. ... The European Left is, in any case, right: private enterprise has fizzled pretty much as the extreme state vicinity of Communism in the East failed liberty. ... The immense divider in the middle of European and American philosophies, the political watershed of the 20th century. ... Also, in any case, some Europeans wonder, what is the distinction today in the middle of Left and Right? ... The destruction of Communism in East Europe does not imply that ideas of Right and Left are dead. ...

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Very few exceptionally tall buildings are located in this area; mostly five or six story, narrow brick buildings with a longer east to west diameter than north to south, making each storefront quite narrow and seem as though one is intimately connected to the other. ... A few homeless people also are taking up space near the basketball court to the east of Mulberry. ... Not surprisingly, it was a Native American tribe called 'Lenapes ("the people")'4 who began settling New York City in the middle of the 14th century. ... The buildings were structurally unsound, the decayi...

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The purpose here has simply been to determine whether Russian and Western observers and officials are justified in arguing that the U.S. government, and perhaps some of the other NATO governments, made a ' 'pledge'' to Gorbachev in 1990 that if the USSR consented to Germany's full membership in NATO after unification, the alliance would not expand to include any other East European countries. ... Americans started preparation to take their part in the war in Near East with almost full support of most western countries including (at least formally) Russia. ... In numer...

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The Roots of Reformasi in Indonesia Indonesia, from Acheh to Irian Jaya, is equivalent in distance from London to Moscow. It has a population of more than 200 million, which is nearly twice the population of Japan. Its archipelago layout, rather than making communications more difficult, ma...

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The terrorists responsible for the atrocity came from the Middle East, some from Saudi Arabia and others from the countries around Afghanistan, countries previously considered by the West to be so far off that they were not a immediate danger or threat. ... If he did possess weapons of mass destruction, then he could single-handedly start a war involving the entire Middle East. ... So now is Saddam really the greatest evil in the Middle East? ...

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The Middle East has always been a volatile region, with multiple wars and armed conflicts over the last 10 years. ... We all know that social media has been around for quite some time now, but the marriage of political activism and social media in the Middle East rea...

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After eight years of hardline, ultraconservative and anti-Western leadership by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, drastic presidential change has occurred in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Hassan Rouhani's somewhat unexpected but highly optimistic election has turned heads in the west. The big question now is h...

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President Obama's speech confirmed the second standard because he addressed ISIS as being accountable for the deaths of thousands of Iranians and posing a threat to the United States when he said, "At this moment, the greatest threats come from the Middle East and North Africa, where radical groups exploit grievances for their own gain. ... Hitler's statement is similar to how the media has depicted a war on terrorism since the attacks on the World Trade Center and used this impersonal force as the backbone for gaining public support for intervention in the Middle East. ...

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The programme is set in Walford, a fictitious borough of London's East End. ... They're all attractive, white, middle class. ... Looking at the active and passive audience of soaps, the active audience will presumably know that Eastenders does not really reflect east end life. Whereas the passive audience assume that what is shown in soaps reflect a certain place it is presenting as for example people from the east end will think that Coronation Street reflect northerners and northern life. ...

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Gerry Lane is shown briefly to be a loving and loved father and husband before the localized part of the zombie apocalypse begins in downtown Philadelphia with Lane and family stuck in the middle. ... The fear of Middle Eastern terrorists for those who still believe in America's righteous crusades in the Middle East and the atheists, agnostics and the like who appreciate anything that mocks or derides religious fever of any type. ...

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When the London merchants of what became the East India Company first sent ships to the East in 1601, they were not bound for India at all but for the Spice Islands of the Dutch East Indies, and the English traders who set foot on the subcontinent a little later actually sought to avoid conquest. ... The East India Company was originally conceived in September 1599, when a group of London merchants resolved to raise 30,000 for sending ships to the East to collect silks, spices and jewels "upon a purely merchantile bottom." ... By 1639, English traders were established on the east coast, too, l...

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Australia at Vietnam War In the years following the end of the Second World War, colonies of the Western Powers throughout Africa and Asia were clamouring for self-determination and nationhood. The means by which they sought to achieve these goals ranged from peaceful negotiation to armed insurre...

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Also, Murhaf Jouejati, a Middle East Institute scholar-in-residence contends Syria views the State of Israel as a rouge state at best and still has no formal diplomatic relations with them. ... With Damascus being the longest continually inhabited city in the world and Beirut one of the cultural centers of the Middle East, Syrian government has long understood that the region of Lebanon has been a large asset to them both militarily as well as economically. ... After shots were fired at a church, gunmen in Christian East Beirut ambushed a busload of Palestinians. ...

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Introduction The region of West Africa has a long history in the international drug trade. However, in recent years its role has increased into a major hub for the trafficking, manufacture, and use of drugs. In this paper I will discuss the history of West Africa and it's role in this drug trade, an...

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The key research questions will focus on what parental involvement strategies are being implemented in middle schools. ... Teachers and parents at the middle school level will be surveyed and interviewed in one rural district. ... It has been found that parental involvement tends to decrease at the middle school level. ... "Research links family involvement in middle and high school to students' positive academic and social outcomes" (Bouffard and Steffen, p2, 2007). ... Bouffard and Stephens (2007) reported that research connects the involvement of family in middle school re...

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