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”

• The coffins will keep coming until we conquer our amnesia on Afghanistan | Jonathan Freedland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Barack Obama is about to make his most crucial military decision. He should remember what took us to war in the first place This is remembrance week, when we are supposed to wear a poppy or stand in silence and remember those who have fallen. And yet we seem to have a problem with memory – especially when it comes ...
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• Strong man trying to avoid whiff of the dictator | Charles Tripp

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  A Baghdad court has found against the Guardian and awarded the prime minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, 100m Iraqi dinars [£52,000] in damages for an article by its correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, published in April of this year. It was an extraordinarily interesting and well sourced analysis of Malikis power as he ...
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• Emanuel: Settlement issue should not block Mideast peace

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 849
  Emanuel filled in for President Barack Obama, who canceled his scheduled appearance to attend the Fort Hood memorial service. Washington (CNN) - The White House chief of staff Tuesday reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to Israel and said the dispute over settlements should not keep the Israelis and Palestinians ...
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• Women worked to death in Lebanon

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Four Ethiopian domestic workers are thought to have killed themselves in three weeks. Lebanon must protect these women They mop floors, take out the rubbish, walk the dog, buy groceries and care for the children, the elderly or disabled. Many a well-to-do and lower middle class Lebanese family relies on migrant ...
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• Lebanon Crisis Monitor – UN coordinator congratulates on Lebanon’s newly-formed cabinet (People’s Daily)

  
  Global News Blog Headlines — Authority: 532
  UN coordinator congratulates on Lebanon’s newly-formed cabinet (People’s Daily) UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams on Monday night congratulated Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and the new Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on the formation of a national unity cabinet, state-run NNA news ...
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• United Airlines adds flights to Africa, the Middle East and Europe

  
  Gadling — Authority: 700
  Filed under: Africa , Europe , North America , Ghana , Bahrain , United States , Airlines , Transportation , News , Middle East Starting May 2, 2010, United Airlines fans can fly the carrier from the US to Africa for the first time in the companys history. United will offer flights from DC to Accra, ...
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• Introducing the Concept of Hydro-Diplomacy, or, Can Water Bring Peace to the Middle East?

  
  Green Prophet — Authority: 523
  The Middle East as a region does not need any help fueling conflicts.  Unfortunately, it does that pretty well on its own.  Which is why the future threat of water scarcity in the region is not only an environmental concern, but a scary political scenario as well.  Water scarcity in a geographic area notorious for ...
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• Iran: The Mousavi Interview with Jamaran (9 November)

  
  Enduring America — Authority: 627
  The Latest from Iran (10 November): Uncertainty and Propaganda Receive our latest updates by email or RSS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FEED Buy Us A Cup of Coffee? Help Enduring America Expand Its Coverage and Analysis Mir Hossein’s interview with Jamaran website , published on Monday: Some have ...
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• The Middle East Gets It’s Own Social Platform for Start-ups

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 775
  Recently, I’ve become increasingly convinced that the Middle East is going through its dotcom boom. Today, the brilliant folks at ArabCrunch , a site I admittedly check every morning, launched a tool that we’ve been desperately in need of. ArabCrunch.Net is the first social network focused at fostering ...
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• Five Jordan policemen to face trial over death of civilian

  
  The Earth Times Online Newspaper — Authority: 723
  Amman - Five Jordanian police officers are to face trial in connection with the death of a civilian, who died of injuries allegedly sustained from torture, the Ammon news agency reported Tuesday. Minister of State for Information Affairs and Communic...
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• One Day, One Struggle: A Campaign for Human Rights in Muslim Societies

  
  LGBT asylum news (formally Save Mehdi Kazemi) — Authority: 134
  Source: Bitch By Mandy Van Deven, November 9 over twenty organizations in eleven countries held "simultaneous events and public demonstrations on topics like protesting customary practices such as honor killings and FGM/C, overturning discriminatory and life threatening laws like stoning or lashing of women, and ...
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• Green November

  
  Middle East Progress — Authority: 430
  Thirty years ago, the world was mesmerized by pictures of 52 blindfolded Americans being taken hostage in their embassy in Tehran by Iranian students. [Last] week’s anniversary provided more gripping scenes, as Iranians used the official celebration of that event to take to the streets once again, this time to ...
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• Iran and the West at a Crossroad

  
  Middle East Progress — Authority: 430
  Iran’s tactic of insisting that its “nuclear file” is closed took a severe blow when the country was forced to reveal in September the existence of a secret enrichment facility near Qom. Until then, Iran had avoided serious consequences by dividing China and Russia against France, the UK and the U.S.. The ...
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• Iran’s Politics Stand in the Way of a Nuclear Deal

  
  Middle East Progress — Authority: 430
  Iran’s leadership has once again equivocated after agreeing to a deal that would ease its nuclear standoff with the West. But this time, that may be as much a product of the nation’s smoldering political crisis as it is a negotiating tactic, political analysts and Iran experts said. Tehran has yet to state ...
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• US major contacted radical cleric

  
  bibisi news — Authority: 462
  US officials knew the US Army major accused of killing 13 people had contacted a Yemen-based cleric sympathetic to al-Qaeda.
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• Exploring India’s Incredible Palaces and Forts

  
  RatesToGo Travel Blog — Authority: 129
  India is a country rich with history and culture. One of the best ways to uncover the area’s incredible history is to visit some of its astounding forts and palaces, all of which have their own unique history that contributes to the overall state of the country as it stands today. 7. Amber Fort Located in ...
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• Department of meaningless gestures

  
  Stephen M. Walt — Authority: 598
  Two eminent mainstream journalists -- Tom Friedman and Joe Klein -- recently called for United States to disengage from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, on the grounds that Palestinians were too divided to make a deal and the Israelis were not interested in one. Friedman couldnt bring himself to draw the ...
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• Is Obama bungling the Middle East?

  
  The Other McCain — Authority: 754
  Sammy Benoit thinks so : President Obamas Middle East policy is in ruins. While the U.S. continues to press Israel for a settlement freeze (and a freeze on Jerusalem), Obamas strategy is falling apart piece by piece. He has turned the Israeli populace against him and strengthened the hand of Prime Minister ...
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• Journalism roundup

  
  The Best Defense — Authority: 646
  Theyre roundingup reporters again in Iran. Since the June 12 "election," "Atleast 100 journalists and bloggers have been arrested ... and 23 are stillbeing held," states a group that tracks journalistic freedom. "At the sametime, around 50 have been forced to flee the country to escape the relentlessrepression." ...
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• The Kirkuk primary begins

  
  The Best Defense — Authority: 646
  The Kirkuk primary begins -- with the assassination of a Sadristleader. In other Iraq news, two guys planting a bomb inMosul blew themselves up. Poetic justice, right? Sort of. But it reminds me of a dayin Baghdad when  some guys who had beenfiring mortar shells to near where I was were killed when a shell ...
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