ethnographer as Ms. Elizabeth Warnock Fernea who was born in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin on October 21‚ 1927 with interest on social sciences according to goodreads.com (2013) married to Robert A. Fernea who is an anthropologist who went to the village in Iraq to study the culture. In 1950s‚ Elizabeth joined her husband in the village of Sheik where she experienced the ways and life of the women in the village‚ where her book was “commonly regarded as a pioneer for women in the field of the Middle East Studies”
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Prophet Muhammad stated in one of his hadiths is "my Ummah (community) will be fragmented into seventy-three sects‚ and all of them will be in the Hellfire except one‚" and both Sunni and Shia claim to be the rightful leaders." The current conflict in Iraq is fuelled by sectarian rivalries too‚ which embattled President Bashar al-Assad and his family members of the Shia Alawite-sect‚ while many of the insurgent groups in his country – including the Islamic State terror group – are Sunni adherents. And
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References: Bryant‚ C.‚ & Kasinof‚ L. (2010‚ October 29). Suspicious UPS‚ FedEx packages raise new concerns about Al Qaeda in Yemen. Christian Science Monitor. p. N.PAG. Retrieved from EBSCOhost CPJ. (2008‚ April 15). Iraq: Journalists Abducted 2003-09. Retrieved March 15‚ 2011‚ from Committee to Protect Journalists: Defending Journalists Worldwide: http://cpj.org/reports/2008/04/abducted.php. Gerstein‚ Josh (2010). Clinton named Al Qaeda Yemen as terror group. Politico
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controlled most of modern day Afghanistan‚ Iran‚ Turkmenistan‚ Iran‚ Azerbaijan‚ and Tajikistan. Their claim to legitimacy was because of their descent from the seventh Imam (Tucker chapter 1). The Ottomans ruled the territories of what today are Syria‚ Iraq‚ Turkey‚ Greece‚ Bulgaria‚ Egypt‚ Israel‚ Jordan; parts of Algeria‚ Tunisia‚ Libya‚ and Yemen; as well as the cities of Mecca and Medina. These people were ruled by Muslims who were mostly tolerant of other religions. Christians and Jews were allowed
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represent the largest ethnic group world-wide which does not have a home country. Overview This people lives in an area that is today known as Kurdistan‚ and it represents a region of 200‚000 miles from S-E Turkey‚ N-E Syria‚ West Iran and North Iraq. The Kurds are known to be descendents of the Medes. Since the largest population of the Kurds live in Turkey (almost 40 percent)‚ they are seen as threat to the government of this country. Turkey ’s government has tried to assimilate the Kurd population
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Title: Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence & Its Links to The Middle East. Author: Khaled Ahmed ISBN: 978-0-19-90-6593-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pages: 369 Price: PKR.550 By: Syed Haider Abbas The author of this book is Khaled Ahmed. Khaled Ahmed was in the Pakistan Foreign Service from 1969 to 1978. He left it to become a journalist of distinction in The Pakistan Times. He is a former consulting editor of Daily Times; resident editor of The Frontier Post; joint editor
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Syria Physical map You can see from the map that much of Syria is arid‚ with greener areas following rivers and other sources of water such as the Mediterranean to the east. Political map Fact file: Area Syria has an area of 185‚180 km² Population 20.82 million (2011) Resources Petroleum in commercial quantities was first discovered in the northeast in 1956. The most important oil fields are those of Suwaydiyah‚ Qaratshui‚ Rumayian‚ and Tayyem‚ near Dayr az–Zawr. The fields are a
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Libya and Syria: A Crisis Engineered The situations that occurred in Libya and are presently occurring in Syria are much distorted in majority of the population’s eyes‚ with loose details and misinformation being preached by politicians‚ reported by the mainstream media‚ and discussed internationally. One key guide to being informed and understanding the events that took place is to realize that living in a certain part of the world shifts your views and the influences apart of that culture or
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Nima Golchin Ms.Sconnyer Liturature 18 October‚ 2012 The Al Anfal campaign The operation was called “Anfal Campaign;” Anfal means “Spoils of war” in Arabic. This was a genocidal campaign that was followed by a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population and their means of livelihood – villages‚ agriculture‚ infrastructures‚ roads‚ etc. The operation was carried from early 1986 until late 1989 and it took the lives of more than 2‚150‚000 mostly women‚ children‚ and elders as most
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loosely defined. One term sometimes applied to part of this area is “Fertile Crescent‚” which was coined by James Henry Breasted in 1914 to refer to the arc of fertile agricultural zones that formed the basis for early civilizations‚ in what is now Iraq‚ Syria‚ Lebanon‚ and Israel. Scholars studying the ancient past usually use the term “Near East” for this area. Map of the Middle East Mountains and deserts divide the Middle East into six zones that are both geographically distinct and have influenced
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