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Middle Eastern Politics & Culture: Today & Yesterday

… and religious power battles in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. And the book also examines … How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt A Fresh Start for Pakistan? Alawites and the Fate of … The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years …
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin Book Cover

Byzantium for Dummies

Review of Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, by Judith Herrin (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2008)
… half of the Mediterranean, at varying times, from Greece to Egypt and extending over Persia. Eventually, it fell to the …

Original Origins

… The Many Faces of Islamic Fundamentalism: A Profile of Egypt   (revised 2023) [PDF] American Internationalism in …
Dome of the Rock

Religions of the Middle East

Grade Level
9-12
Teaching Area
World History since 1500
… How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt ” By Elizabeth Perego 4.      “Syria’s Islamic …
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.

A New View of West African Empires

Review of African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa, by Michael A. Gomez (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)
… of West African slavery related to Islamic states such as Egypt and Syria, which were the major purchasers of West …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

… oppressors. An American editorial cartoon from 1977 depicts Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister … a Palestinian state . Begin signed a peace agreement with Egypt in 1979 which involved Israeli withdrawal from the … ; the Alawites and Syria ; ISIS ; Islamic Politics in Egypt ; The Religious Divide in Iraq ; The Sunni-Shi'i …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… in Jordan. The fourth, a Pan Am 747, ended up in Cairo, Egypt. A Pam Am crew member successfully led the rapid … shortly after the last of the crew exited the aircraft. Egyptian police arrested the hijackers. At Dawson’s Field, … the hijackers also planned to destroy the aircraft. As in Egypt, they allowed the evacuation of all passengers and …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… and inspired by revolutionary leader Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, overthrew the king in a bloody coup d'état and … sought political influence among Arab states and contested Egyptian dominance of the Arab community of nations. Iraq …
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.

Who are the Taliban?

… and early 1970s, and they drew inspiration from radicals in Egypt , Pakistan , and Iran . They believed that Islam was a … Soviet forces. Funded by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and others, as well as by the opium trade , the …
The Course of Empire: Destruction, Painted by Thomas Cole, depicts a highly dramatic, catastrophic image of Rome's end.

Political Economy in the Late Roman Empire

Review of The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to The Destruction of Roman Italy, by Michael Kulikowski (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… in the East (the Eastern Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt). Even as it is part of the recent trend of declension …
Engraving of Robespierre.

The New Species of Terrorism

… never came. In the mid-20th century, native peoples from Egypt to Vietnam rebelled against colonial regimes. They, … the Middle East. Starting in 1979 — the year of the Israel-Egypt peace agreement, the Iranian revolution and the Soviet …