Middle East

The Middle East is a loosely defined area that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. The most current CIA map of the area, as of April 2009, can be found here.

The history of the Middle East is diverse, depending on the country or territory. A good beginning source is the CIA World Fact Book.

The BBC has ongoing coverage of The Middle East. Major news magazines carry blogs about The Middle East, as do many major newspapers. Universities and colleges are a good source for comprehensive information, and there are a lot of personal blogs by people from The Middle East, Rantings of a Sand Monkey is one example.

You can search for information on The Middle East as a whole and by individual country, or look for blogs from The Middle East, by placing the word or words of our inquiry into the technorati search bar.

Tourism is big in The Middle East. If traveling from the United States check the Department of State travel advisories.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Middle East”

• Iraqs January election could be delayed, warns official - Summary

  
  The Earth Times Online Newspaper — Authority: 723
  Baghdad - Iraqs planned election for January was again in doubt Tuesday, after an election official said that the vice presidents rejection of an electoral law governing the poll left little hope of the vote taking place on time. It will be imposs...
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• Feeble excuses for Egypts football riots | Joseph Mayton

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  Dont point the finger at deeper ills. The violence in Cairo was just thuggery cynically fomented by President Mubarak It really is about football. Local and international media can argue about the underlying reasons for the violence in Cairo that saw the Algerian embassy attacked, hundreds of riot police on the ...
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• Palestinians: Shalit negotiations hang on exile for Barghouti

  
  The Earth Times Online Newspaper — Authority: 723
  Cairo/Damascus/Gaza City - - Negotiations between Israeli officials and Hamas over a possible deal to release captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit now hinge on whether two imprisoned Palestinian leaders would be freed but allowed to remain in the oc...
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• Another Warning on Turkeys Islamist Slide

  
  Legal Insurrection — Authority: 707
  Last January, I warned of a dangerous slide by Turkey into the Islamist orbit, Turkey Looking Like The Next Iran . About a month ago, I further noted Caroline Glicks excellent article about Turkeys coziness with Iran and anti-democratic Islamism, Turkey is Lost to Islamists . In response to Glicks article, with a ...
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• Car thieves in Lebanon using women as bait

  
  The Earth Times Online Newspaper — Authority: 723
  Beirut - Beirut police warned Tuesday of a possible new method employed by car thieves - using women as bait. Police told of the case of Mohammed Wafik al-Safawi who was in Beiruts Christian Badaro district around midnight Monday when two women stop...
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• Raider’s of the Lost Iraq Treasures Restored

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Treasures lost in Iraq Invasion restored and soon on Google Google CEO Eric Schmidt has announced Google will be displaying the lost treasurers of Iraq next year on the Internet. Many priceless artifacts were lost from the “Cradle of Civilization” during the 2003 invasion by the US. Looters took advantage of ...
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• Afghan president to form new cabinet in near future

  
  India eNews — Authority: 177
  The new cabinet for President Hamid Karzai, who was re-elected in a poll marred by massive fraud, is expected to be announced in a near future, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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• Interrogated About The Daily Show in Iran

  
  The Lede — Authority: 699
  Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian reporter for Newsweek who was detained for 118 days in Iran after Junes disputed election, writes that his surreal interrogation included questions about an appearance in a fake news report on "The Daily Show."
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• The 1967 War and the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 560
  The 1967 War and the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Did the Egyptians actually start the 1967 war, as Israel originally claimed? "The former Commander of the Air Force, General Ezer Weitzman, regarded as a hawk, stated that there was no threat of destruction but that the attack on Egypt, Jordan ...
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• ANALYSIS: Effects of probable Israeli-Palestinian swap already clear

  
  The Earth Times Online Newspaper — Authority: 723
  Tel Aviv - A prisoner swap involving Palestinians and Arab- Israelis in Israeli jails being freed in return for a soldier held in the Gaza Strip for more than three years, has yet to be completed, but its probable effects are already apparent. The Is...
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• How Israel Duped US into Fighting their Wars

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 560
  Hindsight is 20/20 - How Israel Duped US into Fighting their Wars By now, it should be glaringly obvious to everyone that US foreign policy in the Middle East is directed by - and for the benefit of - israel. But, just in case - heres a blast from the past, for those whose miniscule minds need further convincing . . ...
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• Latest Iran Video: Protest at Qazvin University (23 November)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 618
  Click here to view the embedded video. Iran Video: Maziar Bahari Tells CBS of His Detention and Post-Election Conflict The Latest from Iran (24 November): A Larijani-Rafsanjani Alliance?
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• Qatar to propose for a regional development bank

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 516
  Qatar is planning to propose that the Gulf states create a regional development bank during the GCC rulers summit in Kuwait in December, Abdulrahman al-Attiyah, secretary-general of the GCC told Al Arabiya TV. He said the aim was “establishing a development bank for the GCC, similar to the European development ...
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• Oman estimates oil price at $70-$80 per barrel in 2010

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 516
  Oman expects to see oil prices ranging between $70 and $80 a barrel in 2010, Ahmad Mekki, Oman’s national economy minister said on Tuesday. “The 2010 budget has been set for production of 870,000 barrel per day and we see oil prices in the range of $70-$80 per barrel,” he said. Oman is basing its 2010 budget ...
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• Google to put pictures of Iraqi artefacts online

  
  bibisi news — Authority: 171
  Google says 14,000 images of the precious artefacts kept in Iraqs National Museum will be available online early next year.
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• Major al Qaeda figure may be detained in Pak

  
  Creeping Sharia — Authority: 590
  Of course, he was supposedly killed in a drone strike a few months ago too, then gave a few interviews. Time will tell. We profiled Ilyas Kashmiri here , described as al Qaeda’s ‘guerrilla chief’. Kashmiri was named in the indictment with two Chicago Muslims who planned to blow up the publisher of the ...
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• Abbas confirms Palestinian vote to be postponed

  
  Talk Vietnam — Authority: 510
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential andlegislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed,confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote. Abbas, speaking to BBC Arabic, said the Palestinian leadershipwould take measures to avoid a constitutional vacuum -- although hedid ...
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• Iraqs January election could be delayed, warns official

  
  The Earth Times Online Newspaper — Authority: 723
  Baghdad - Iraqs planned election for January was again in doubt Tuesday, after an election official said that the vice presidents rejection of an electoral law governing the poll left little hope of the vote taking place on time. It will be imposs...
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• Towards Resolving Thanksgiving Contradictions

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 135
  Years ago, a friend of mine, when we were discussing goodness and malevolence, casually mentioned that even the worst criminals nearly always thought that whatever they were doing was constructive and the problem, then, became one in which different people hold radically different outlooks concerning whatever stands ...
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• Iran Rejects the Uranium Deal

  
  Canada Free Press — Authority: 165
  By Ephraim Kam Since early October 2009, the talks between Iran and P5+1 (the five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany) have focused on the proposal for a circular deal:
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