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The Greater Middle East
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Globalization from Mesopotamia to McArabia
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Plate tectonics
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Maghreb
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Levant
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Global pressure and wind belts
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Orographic precipitation
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(as of 2002)
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Salinization, Tunisia
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Salinized soil
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Population map
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Ethnic groups in Southwest Asia
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Distribution of Religions
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Mesopotamia
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Jericho
Jericho
Dead Sea
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Jericho
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Catal Huyuk
shrine
figurine
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Ancient cities
Ur
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Demographic transition model
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Saudi Arabia population pyramid for 2005
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Alluvial fan
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Alluvial fan
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Qanat system
Only the mother well is a true well
chain wells admit air and maintenance workers
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View inside a qanat
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Qanats
Qanat holes seen from air
Qanat exit
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Aswan High Dam
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Lake Nasser
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Lake Nasser
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Schistosomiasis worms, eggs in tissues, and
victim
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Libyas Great Man Made River
Constructed in the 1990s, the 600-mile aqueduct
brings water from vast groundwater supplies in
southern Libya to the north coast
(Colonel Mu'ammar Abu-Minyar al-Qadhafi)
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Worlds largest desalination plant (Saudi Arabia)
800 million gallons/day
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Sudd Swamp
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Sudd swamp, Sudan
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Cairo
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Cairo
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Cairos City of the Dead
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City of the Dead
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City of the Dead
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Islam as an urban religion the Islamic City

• Main mosque, with minarets
• Suqs (markets) surrounding main mosque
• Citadel (or casbah), the governors palace
• Residential quarters
• Street network emphasizing privacy
• Surrounding wall

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Blue Mosque, Istanbul
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Grand Mosque, Bur Dubai, UAE
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Moroccan suq
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Fes medina
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Casbah, Algiers
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Traditional Islamic house courtyard
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Mecca
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The Kaaba in the Great Mosque, Mecca
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Jerusalems Old City
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Oasis plantation, Tunisia
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Ottoman Empire, 1580
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British and French mandates
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Armenian clergy make crosses from bones of
genocide victims
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Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916
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Balfour Declaration 1917
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Palestinian refugee camp
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West Bank Jewish settlements
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West Bank settlements
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Intifada
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Kibbutzes
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Cyprus
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Kurds
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Oil!
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Ghawar Oil Field
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Palm Island, Dubai
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Agassi vs. Federer on the helipad of the Burj al
Arab hotel, Dubai
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Fiery Furnace (Daniel 3)
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Moorish architecture, Spain
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Iraqis environmental warfare in Kuwait
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Intifada
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Common crops in the Middle East
frankincense
licorice
wheat
coffee
olives