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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• Egypt: A fine line between patriotism and chauvinism

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  From  ferocious marketing campaigns to  Facebook wars, the hacking of websites, and owl burning, the November 14th football match between Egypt and Algeria has turned into  an ugly war which got worse after Egypts defeat on November 18 in Sudan. Egyptian and Algerian youth got sucked into a  Twitter war and ...
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• Lebanon: The Plural of ‘Anecdote

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  “The plural of “anecdote” is not “data.”" remarks Gregg Carlstrom at The Majlis , in response to FP s article on temporary marriage in Lebanon.
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• The Drobo

  
  news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs — Authority: 161
  Just ordered the Drobo backup system along with 4×1.5TB drives from Amazon. I currently have 3TB of storage that’s a combination of 5 external drives and it’s fine except for the fact if I lose one of those drives I lose everything that’s on it and its happened to me before. So I’ve been [...]
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• The Latest on Iran (28 November): Turning Attention Back to Tehran

  
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• Netanyahu says Hamas prisoner deal may not happen

  
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  An Israeli prisoner exchange with Hamas has not yet been agreedand may not happen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said onTuesday, after a senior cabinet colleague predicted a breakthroughwithin weeks. "There is still no deal, and I do not know if there will beone," Netanyahu, whose reticence on the state of the ...
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• Iran’s Nukes: Obama’s Team Buys Time for Engagement

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 616
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• Hunger Strike: Activist Protests Ahmadinejad’s Visit to Bolivia

  
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• Turkey – Rally of Turkey moves to Istanbul – Autosport Online

  
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  Rally of Turkey moves to Istanbul – Autosport OnlineRally of Turkey organisers have confirmed the event will move to Istanbul for 2010, as predicted by AUTOSPORT. After five years in the holiday resort of Kemer, the shift to the world’s fifth largest city – with a population of 12 million people Istanbul Stock ...
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• Jeffrey Jolson, Publisher and Editor-in-chief at Hollywood Today, Responds to Absence of Source Attributions at Tareq Salahi ATFB Story

  
  American Power — Authority: 708
  I just received an e-mail, titled "Libel," from Jeffrey Jolson, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, at Hollywood Today . He responds to my post, " Did Hollywood Today Plagiarize American Power on Tareq Salahis Palestinian Ties? " Mr. Jolson writes (available publically in the comments here ) that hed never ...
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• China’s Backing on Iran Followed Dire Predictions

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  The Washington Post reports on the negotiations that preceded President Obama’s request that China support his stance against Iran’s nuclear proliferation: The Chinese were told that Israel regards Iran’s nuclear program as an “existential issue and that countries that have an existential issue don’t ...
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• Derisionist History

  
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  Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations By Avi Shlaim (Verso, 392 pp., $34.95) Avi Shlaim burst upon the scene of Middle Eastern history in 1988, with the publication of Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine . Before that, as a ...
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• Afghan children ‘die from neglect’

  
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• Did Hollywood Today Plagiarize American Power on Tareq Salahis Palestinian Ties?

  
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  Look, the New York Times first broke the news that Tareq Salahi, the White House gate-crasher now under investigation for the massive state dinner security breach , had ties to Palestinian rights organization, ATFP. After I saw that, I looked into it, and published my report, " Tareq ...
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• Middle East News – Jordan and Dubai, parallel universes collide (Times Online)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 165
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• Iraq – Iraq war based on ‘questionable legitimacy,’ says former UN envoy (EARTHtimes.org)

  
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• Torture Renders Suspects Unfit for Trial

  
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  In a tragic piece of irony: When five defendants are brought before a New York federal judge to face charges for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the first question may be whether some of them are competent to stand trial at all. Military lawyers for Ramzi Binalshibh, an accused organizer of the 9/11 plot, and ...
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• Whats Really Wrong with the Middle East by Brian Whitaker | Book review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  A lively survey of the Middle East calls for far-reaching reform The problems of the Middle East are always somebody elses fault. Arabs blame their problems on centuries of foreign interference; their critics retort that the Arabs must shoulder responsibility for their own failures. The argument is about the ...
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• Dubai: Who says the bubbles burst?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  It will take more than bad debt to stop the partying in Dubai, as Collette Lyons found out when she took a job on a magazine in the hedonists paradise This morning, the expats in Dubai have woken up on the last day of their Eid long weekend a little poorer, but probably not in the way you think. Chances are drinks at ...
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