Marriage is also viewed as crucial to the social structure in the Middle East. ... The phenomenon of women in the Middle East developed a lot because of economic structures. ... This arrangement still affects women's roles in the modern day Middle East (Keddie, 16). Lastly we will see the social aspects of women in the Middle East. ... The history of women's rights in the Middle East started with the voice of males over women. ...

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In the six centuries before the Mongols, Islamic culture had dominated the Middle East. After the Mongols, much of the Middle East also had Mongolian features, including much of its government and economic systems. ... Genghis khan was arguably the starting factor in what made the Mongols so significant in the Middle East. ... This led to the Mongols coming into direct influence of Islamic and Christian states in the Middle East. ... Hulagu himself even had a very deep hatred for everything attached to Islam furthering the significance of the Mongol impact on the Middle East due to invasion of...

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Women who should have equal status with men, have been degraded and disregarded in numerous ways in the Middle East. ... In the Middle East, there are periodic fatwas (diktats) which are issued by the Islamic clergy. ... In the extremely conservative Middle East, domestic violence is widely prevalent. ... This real life case is a true example of how men in the Middle East take advantage of the laws to overpower women. Underlying this basic ideology of woman suppression in the Middle East is power and insecurity. ...

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However, in the Middle East it is a different issue. ... Homosexuals themselves in the Middle East will not be willing to admit it. ... All religious patriarchs in the Middle East unanimously believe it is one of the most horrible sins. ... There are many similarities in the ways that homosexuality is perceived in the U.S ,and the Middle East. ... What actually lies as a big difference in dealing with homosexuality between the U.S and the Middle East is looking at the type of the pederasty. ...

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What is a Middle Easterner? What is a Middle Easterner American? ... Since the emergencies in the Center East. ... There have been about twenty standard changes, official requests and laws influencing settlers or non-foreigner guests, 15 of which predominately target Bedouins (Cainkar 2002 Center East Report). ... Moreover, the Middle East Studies Association, along with the Middle East Outreach Council, have studied history and geography textbooks where they found that, in the smaller chapters that discuss the Middle East, there was an exaggerated depiction of "deserts, camels and nomads. " T...

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Through their military prowess and technological advances they were able to create one of the largest empires which stretched across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and even Europe. ... This began to brew more commercial motives in the region and thus shaped Ottoman policy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. ... Since Ottoman Empire controlled much of the global trading, the Europeans were forced to deal with the Turks if they wanted to trade with the East. The East was the source of Asian spices and luxury goods and therefore the Europeans became dependent on dealing with the Turks. ...

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I am currently majoring in international relations focusing in the Middle East. The Middle East is a hot topic and seems to always be in the media, but I believe the media has created a different interpretation of the Middle East. ... Islam is known to be a monotheistic religion that developed in the Middle East. ...

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If it followed the pattern of Middle Eastern history up to that point, Islam would have been virtually discarded after its leader's death. Instead, the Rashidun, the "rightly guided" Muslim leaders who were closest to the prophet, namely Umar, Uthman and Ali, took the reins of Islam, beginning a campaign that would, within two centuries, make Islam the dominant religion in the Middle East. ... Middle Eastern leadership, prior to Mohammed, was capricious at its best. ...

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As time changes, people, societal norms and taboos change along with it. What was once in vogue one day, can be viewed as old fashioned or absurd the next. Both "Palace Walk," by Naguib Mahfouz And and "Layla and Majnun," by Nizami depict very distinctive times in the Middle East where societal acce...

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The Middle East is the birth place of the world's three major religions. These three major religions; Christianity, Judaism and Islam, share the belief of one god, the same god and because of this they are referred to as monotheistic. In the Islamic and Jewish religions, strict monotheism is practic...

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In the Middle East, the three great world religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam had both share some similarities and differences. ... The Catholic Church during the Middle Ages played an all-encompassing role over the lives of the people and the government. ... Mon-archies, at the close of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renais-sance, did not so much seek the guidance of the church as much as it sought their approval. ... However, only three prayers are mentioned in the Qur'an: morning, evening, and middle prayer in the afternoon. ...

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Islamic Fundamentalism, can be seen as the emergence from US interventions made in the Middle East states, that embedded is anti-western sentiment against Americans. ... All of these are main causes of anti-western fundamentalism that is spread throughout the entire Middle East. ... Further more, Islamic Fundamentalism grew mainly from the middle class (Wahhabi) who were for the antinationalist struggle. ... Islamic Fundamentalism, can be seen as the emergence from US interventions made in the Middle East states, that embedded is anti-western sentiment against Americans. ... All of these a...

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Saudi Arabia contains a population of less than twenty million people and is the largest country located in the Middle East. ... The geography of the country varies from the humid western coastal region to sandy lowlands in the east although located in the southwestern region there are mountains as high as ten thousand feet. ... While many Americans do not fully understand Saudi Arabian culture, Saudi Arabia is perhaps one of the United States' closest allies in the Middle East, a relationship that the United States has solid interest in maintaining. They rely on Saudi Arabia to help a...

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It is because of a conflict in the Middle East: a religious conflict. ... The United States has put itself in to the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not for trade, wealth, or any other reason, but because of what the Old Testament says about Jerusalem and the second coming of Christ... This religious fundamentalist belief is helping to fuel the conflict in the Middle East- (Seneviratne). ... Since when did public opinion justify human right violations in the Middle East? ... Perhaps it is the tyranny boiling in the Middle East, forcing its citizens to do what they want, for whate...

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It is because of a conflict in the Middle East: a religious conflict. ... The United States has put itself in to the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not for trade, wealth, or any other reason, but because of what the Old Testament says about Jerusalem and the second coming of Christ... This religious fundamentalist belief is helping to fuel the conflict in the Middle East- (Seneviratne). ... Since when did public opinion justify human right violations in the Middle East? ... Perhaps it is the tyranny boiling in the Middle East, forcing its citizens to do what they want, for whate...

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Turkmenistan is a country located in the Middle East and somewhat in central Asia. ... The Shia Sunni clash consists of almost all of central Asia, the middle east, and northern Africa. ... Turkmenistan is located in the Middle East and central Asia. ...

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And given the legacy of Western intervention in the Middle East, it is better off for Muslims to form a democratic government in the absence of Western intervention. ... He utilized the current situation of the Middle East in an attempt to explain the lack of Islamic democracies. According to Quandt, Abou El Fadl is right in the sense that Islam itself cannot explain the dearth of democracies in the Middle East and he takes a further step in adressing the factors inhibiting democratic-Islamic reform. ...

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After the Post-Arab Spring, fundamental changes came to the entire Middle Eastern region. ... However, a new terroristic power was soon to attempt a run at power within the Middle East. ... This mindset is being used by the group to recruit more people to join, and not only from Iraq and the Middle East. ...

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(Khatiwada) The differences between roles of Asian Islamic, Middle East and western exist not in small scale but vastly. The general views are that western women are more independent while Middle East women are least while Asian Islamic societies are more lenient towards allowing its women to contribute to the economic growth. For instance, the women in the country drive the labor force of Indonesia while most Middle East countries are not in favor of allowing women to work apart from inside house. ...

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"The Seljuqs were less welcoming than the earlier Muslim rulers had been to Catholics who wanted to visit these holy sites," (Ellwood) "At the same time, the Muslim religion was gaining followers throughout North Africa and what is now the Middle East As these two religions grew, there was conflict between their followers over areas of the Middle East that were sacred to both religions," (Doherty) In addition, the advance of the Seljuqs posed political and economic threats to the Latin-speaking parts of Western Europe....

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Judaism originated in the Middle East, but Jewish communities have existed at one time or another in almost all parts of the world, a result of both voluntary migrations and forced exile or expulsions. ... Distinctive features of the Christian East contributed to its increasing alienation from the West, which finally produced the Great Schism, traditionally dated from 1054, when Rome and Constantinople exchanged excommunication's. The separation of east and West has continued into modern times, despite repeated attempts at reconciliation. ...

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The Middle East is in turmoil and terrorist attacks like September 11th, 2001 are performed in the name of Islam. ... While the Christians were pillaging Europe, the Moores had won the Middle East and came back up Africa slowly taking over the continent. ... After centuries of death and war the Moores finally settled for the Middle East and Africa leaving the world in a religious division that has changed very little to this day. ...

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"True ... not all Muslims are terrorists, but every single terrorist is a Muslim" was a comment of Native Grossnass on a YouTube video of a Muslim guy explaining that Muslims are not terrorists. Islam, the religion that considers killing single innocent human being more significant than demolishing ...

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In the east as well, Muslim armies pushed the boundaries of the Empire farther, reaching the Indus river by 750. As the Empire grew to include more urbanized, cosmopolitan parts of the middle east such as Syria and Iraq, the Arabian peninsula came to be thought of as a desert wasteland once again, and began to recede in importance. ... In the far east, Turkish nomads did the same. ...

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Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access to or a desire for Westernization react and try to nurture their local cultures and traditional identities, thus leading to non-Western habits becoming more popular there, such as the "re-Islamization of the Middle East" (Huntington, 1993). ... This occurs especially when people become impotent in the face of overwhelming military might, as in the case of when the Middle East countries faced the US during the Persian Gulf War with America. ... Ral...

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