Middle East Water Shortage Due to geography and population growth‚ the Middle East nations are faced with a growing demand for a shrinking water supply. Throughout most of the Middle East region rainfall is irregular and the rainy season is very short. The World Bank reports that this area (including North Africa) has 5% of the world’s population‚ but only 1% of the world’s water. Droughts have been occurring more frequently and lasting longer‚ warning of a bleaker future. Man himself has
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Washington’s ultimate prize of changing the leadership of Iraq may be tantalisingly close. But the only policies which are coordinated and focused are those of its present President Saddam Hussein. The international community is fragmented and the Iraqi opposition in disarray. Indeed‚ the tensions between those ranged against Saddam are mounting in a manner perhaps more appropriate to a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta than a conflict which will arguably influence the political future of the Middle
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Kurdistan is a region that has existed in turmoil and is the "never was" country. The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group of the Middle East‚ numbering between 20 and 25 million. Approximately 15 million live in the regions of Turkey‚ Iraq‚ Iran‚ and Syria‚ an area they called Kurdistan‚ yet they do not have a country of their own. Formal attempts to establish such a state were crushed by the larger and more powerful countries in the region after both world wars. When the Ottoman Empire
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Outline 1. What is oil 2. Petroleum industry 3. Domestic and industrial usage of oil 4. Middle eastern oil 5. OPEC 6. Role of Saudi Arabia‚ Venezuela 7. US consumption of oil - 1/4th of total oil 8. War for oil - Iraq War‚ War on terror 9. Oil as a weapon by Arabs‚ Arab Israeli Conflict‚ Central America 10. Political Greed 11. Pipeline diplomacey Baku-Tiblisi-Ceyhan 12. The politics of oil nationalization 13. New alternatives ethnol Petro-Dollar
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streets of Iraq. One of the places that were looted is the home of many ancient Iraqi artifacts including the Lady of Warka‚ the National Museum of Iraq. The theft of artifacts‚ though not always highly publicized‚ takes place quite frequently. The theft of these items is wrong as it denies people from all walks of life the chance to look into the past and understand the development and progress that humans have made. I believe that because of the instability of countries such as Iraq‚ artifacts
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And the west is against this. Iraq and Iran - Not the Same
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1. It is unfortunate that when I hear Iran or Iraq my mind instantly thinks of violence. It seems that most of the news that I hear regarding the Middle East leads me to this. Persepolis provided a different view on Iran. I think that Marjane Satrapi showed that Iran was not just about war and terrorism. She gave a look inside the country‚ a look at its people. In my opinion her family did not seem so much different than an American family. They were real people struggling with the government and
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largest ethnic group in the Middle East which numbers approximately twenty-five million. These people are spread out over a quasi state sometimes called Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”) which geographically is spread out four countries; Turkey‚ Syria‚ Iraq‚ and Iran that encompasses an area about the size of France (Refugees‚ 2005). There are also small groups located in Georgia‚ Kazakhstan‚ Azerbaijan‚ Western Europe‚ and Lebanon (Kurds‚ 2005). Due to economic and ethnic and other disparages Kurdish
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PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS‚ COMMUNICATIONS‚ AND LAW Geostrategic of Syria during the conflicts Final Term Exam Paper Anggun Desimalinda 016 2012 00057 International Relations Defense Class 2 2012 Strategic Environment Yugolastarob Khomeini July 15th 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents……………….......………………………………………………………..1 Background of Study .......................................................................................................
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informants. These trucks were then hijacked‚ driven into Iran‚ given Iranian license plates‚ and brought back into Iraq.
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