Although similar in many aspects, the institution of marriage varies across the many cultures of the Middle East. ... According to cross-cultural tradition in the Middle East, marriage should never be kept secret as it leads to suspicion and troubles within the community. ... After reading the article from Everyday Life in the Muslims Middle East, I had to compare my country's marriage style to Arabia's marriage style or traditions. ... Looking at the Eastern side of the Middle East, culture has been influenced as well. ... I think there are many differences in the culture o...

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If Europeans see America as a threat, then the Middle East would clearly harbor hatred toward America because the Middle East is the region that is being bombed and occupied. ... The Middle East has become the most militarized region in the world with most arms sales headed there as a direct result of U.S military presence (Middle East). ... The dominant population of the Middle East, Sunni Arabs, were split among numerous states. ... By splitting the Middle East into many different sections, Britain also went against a promise of independence made to the Arabs in the 1910s (Border Lines Still...

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Women's Rights in Middle East impact can be understood through the culture, religion and class structure in the Middle East. The cultural importance of women's rights in the Middle East has been long-lasting. ... Middle East is the cradle and spreading ground of Islam. ... Islam has shaped Middle East culture through the law. ... People in Middle East is like worker bees, follow and fiercely protect. ...

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War in the Middle East has been apart of our news media for as long as anyone can remember. ... The way America is trying to take control of the situation in the Middle East is wrong. There have been problems in the Middle East since the times of the bible. America can not send troops over to the Middle East and expect to solve problems that have thousands of years of history. ... So why would America care about what is happing in the Middle East? ...

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The Middle East is not in the position it was in 1973 with regards to oil exports, and with natural gas and new oil finds outside the Middle East coming into play it does not have the kind of monopoly on energy that it once had. ... The control and manipulation of oil will continue not only to dominate the Middle East, but the entire world. ... Bild, Peter. 1992 "Oil in the Middle East and North Africa." in The Middle East and North Africa 1993. ... "The Saudi Economy: A Few Years Yet till Doomsday" Middle East Report. ...

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Recent military action in the Middle East has left a country in total chaos, and total anarchy has resulted from the ousting of tyrant-dictator Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. ... The United States could use its" recent military victory to solve all of the problems now facing the Middle East and acquire a profitable new investment at the same time. ... The Middle East is populated enough that it could be protected by its own National Guard unit, saving the taxpayers billions, and not even cause a financial burden, as oil output would also cover all expenses emanating from the Colin Powell N...

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How dependant do we really want to be on the Middle East? ... The top fifteen suppliers are all basically located in the Middle East. It is unfortunate that The United States has to rely on the Middle East for such a big portion of our petroleum, due to all of the issues surrounding those countries. The war we are faced with is creating deep rooted problems for our nation as a whole and the Middle Eastern area. ... I believe that if we do stop getting petroleum from the Middle East that it would be very difficult for our Nation to acquire the amount we actually need for our average consumpti...

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It changed our world by introducing an element of fear and became a catalyst for impending war in the Middle East. ... I was perturbed by the malice Americans demonstrated towards Indians, Pakistanis, and the Middle Easterners. ...

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In Korea, the Middle-East has been a keen interesting region since the oil crisis of 1973. According to the Korean advance in the Middle East, its studies and economic relations have been activated in Korea. Now the region of the Middle East is not a strange part to Koreans. The advances and studies of the Middle East, however, have been confined really to the oil-rich countries and the confronted nations with the Israeli struggle. ... Therefore RIES, Research Institute of the East-West Economy & Society, established 'Korea - Yemen Center' on December 29, 1994 in order to found a Y...

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After the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11 2001 commonly known as 9-11, the media's coverage of terrorism seemed as if to quadruple, and in that people's views of minorities, mainly those who look to originate of the Middle East, also quadrupled. People's assumptions took them for granted saying that, "the attackers of 9-11 were Middle Eastern and therefore all Middle Easterns are terrorists," which as educated humans know is to be false. There is the correlation that the attackers of 9-11 were Middle Eastern but does not fit the reversal saying that all Middle ...

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The successful outcome of the Gulf War, combined with the collapse of the Soviet Union, had left the United States in an unprecedented position of dominance in the Middle-East. ... Moreover, the United States was forced to consider that it could not afford the destabilizing impact that pressure for reform would generate in the deeply traditional and repressed societies of the Middle-East. ... (Ajami) For this reason, the al Qaeda network established by Osama bin Laden had one objective; the overthrow of the Saudi and Egyptian regimes, who made allowances for an American presence in the Middle-...

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Iraq Iraq is located in the Middle East. ... It represented the lower stratum of the middle class. ... In the 1980s, the ruling class tended to be composed of high and middle echelon bureaucrats who either had risen through the ranks of the party or had been cooped into the party because of their technical competence, i.e., technocrats. ... The impact of religion on daily life in Muslim countries is far greater than that found in the West since the Middle Ages. ...

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They heard that there was Kuwaiti gold hidden somewhere in the Middle East. ... Going in to the Gulf War, the Iraqi armies had extensive experience because they had just ended a war with other middle-eastern countries. ...

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Norway is quickly changing the widely accepted view of oil reserves. In stark contrast to the Middle East's hot climate, Hammerfest, Norway is home to the fifth largest exporter of oil and the third largest exporter of natural gas on earth. The "Snow White" undersea reservoir, 300 miles north of t...

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This is especially so in the Middle East, which lies in one of the driest regions of the world. ... It is for this reason, that seawater is used to provide the water that is necessary for drinking, irrigation, and industries of the Middle East, especially so in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) (Al Serkal, 2007). ... Water will always be a much-needed commodity in the Middle East and the UAE. ...

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The Middle-East is a case in point. Tensions in the Middle-East have often been eased by the U.N. and its international peace makers, but we only hear about the suicide bombings of psychopathic terrorists, never peace accords or amends between countries. ...

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Because oil from the Middle East is relatively cheap, it is estimated that 43 percent of the world's oil will come from the Persian Region by 2030. This would be a 50 percent increase of reliance on Middle Eastern oil from today. ... The limited and decreasing supply of cheap Middle Eastern oil would decrease the world's supply of oil and increase the production cost of finding oil from other places, leading to higher energy prices. ...

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Racism towards people from the Middle East have augmented and amplified. Middle Easters are treated disrespectfully and unfairly in many situations in which they shouldn"t because they are not the ones who caused the disaster of 9/11. ... Racism also has increased as more and more Middle Easters are treated unfair simply because of their nationalities. ...

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In the virtual café a lot of topics have been thrown around. Terrorism brings up two popular sociological ideas, troubles and issues. Both similar in definition, issues are values cherished by groups that are felt to be threatened, and troubles are situations that occur that cause and individual's ...

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OPEC 1. According to the articles the alternatives to oil in the future are going to be hydrogen powered fuel cells, which are big batteries that run on hydrogen. They are being highly researched by car companies. They can also maybe in the future be used to power other things such as elect...

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There is no way a "green mountain" could possibly exist in the Middle East. When I first heard about Al Jabal Al Akdhar or Green Mountain, I was perplexed and curious about this place. I really did not believe that such place in the desert lands in the Middle East exists. From what I know, the dese...

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UAE is a country located in the Middle East bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. ... Emergence of UAE as the haven amid turbulent parts and oil revenue of the Middle East following Arab Spring in 2011 has transformed country's banking industry into the largest and the biggest in the region. ...

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The general feeling in the Middle East and Islamic world is that it would be very difficult to maintain close allies with the United States, even in the war against terrorism, if they decided to strike on their own. ...

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Almost everything Saddam Hussein did for the world wasn't good, when the Gulf War ended in 1991, the United Nations resolved that the economic embargo on Iraq would be lifted if Iraq destroyed its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs within six months. Iraq refused to do so. So it made ...

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Life in north and east mountains was different from the sandy territories in terms of clothes, food but way of business was same among adjacent of coastline by doing trade through sea. ... There is also a great influence of Europe, East Africa and India because of immigrants from these regions went there for better opportunities and employments, they introduce different dress codes, food dishes and different activities of interests for individuals. ... Individuals with elite jobs and higher pays and high level of education are in one category, immigrants with skills and middle level of ed...

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