Middle East Test
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- afghanistan
- islamic republic, not under taliban, women have few rights, a new constitution was established in 2004
- al qaeda
- international terrorist organization
- anti-semitism
- hatred of jews
- armenian genocide
- us has contemplated passing legislation that recognized the armenian genocide, turkey is not supportive of the recognization
- at the time of muhammad's death
- islam had expanded across the middle east
- ayatollah khomeini
- created a muslim state
- children in the middle east
- faced with sexual abuse, propaganda, censorship, and lack of technology
- civil war in lebanon
- happened because of a power struggle between christian and muslims. us, israel, syria, and iran became involved
- cold war
- conflict between us and soviet union
- countries with poor economies
- iraq, lebanon, syria
- desalination
- sea water convertion
- dubai
- in uae currently has an aggressive real estate market
- gaza strip
- where most of the suicide bombers are from
- hamas
- palestinian islamic militant organization
- iaea
- international atomic energy agency
- intifida
- palestinian uprising
- iran/iraq war fought because of
- strategic waterway, oil, religion
- israel's independence/declaration of statehood
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not recognized by world
- israel's perspective v. palestinian
- israel says the conflict is occurring because the arabs are refusing to recognize israel's right to exist and the palestinian perspective says the conflict is occurring because the european jews who immigrated to palestine have taken over the land
- nuclear capability
- iran is said to be 2+ years away from having
- opec
- cartel controlling most, but NOT all, of the oil supply in the world
- opinions of suicide bombers
- some believe they volunteer and some believe they are drafted
- osama bin laden
- very wealthy owner of a massive construction business
- ottoman empire
- lasted nearly 5 centuries and conquered southeastern europe, north africa, and the middle east
- pan-arabism
- supported by osama bin laden, union of arab states
- persian gulf war
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led primarily by the us in order to liberate kuwait
- plo
- organization for palestinian state
- police state
- government controls all aspects of life, including the media. ex. iran.
- propoganda
- message to influence
- purdah
- act of covering women's bodies
- purdah promotes
- the judgment of women based on personality than beauty
- saddam hussein
- leader of iraq for over 20 years, convicted of massacre 140+ citizens, hanged december 6 in iraq, not captured by united nations
- shah of iran
- removed from power
- shariah
- islamic law
- suicide bombers
- believe they will achieve martyrdom if they die for their religion
- taliban
- sunni muslim group ruled afghanistan
- theocracy
- government ruled by religion
- westernization
- believed by many extreme muslims to undermine islam and therefore promote fundamentalism and gaining political power
- women, sports, middle east
- all women in the middle east need approval from a male to play a sport
- world war three
- threatened by bush administration to happen if iran doesn't agree to nuclear compliance
- young turks
- followed a policy of genocide that killed hundreds of thousands of armenians, distrusted armenian christians who had ties with russia
- zoinism
- movement for jewish state