Middle East History Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (379) essays
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Middle Eastern History essays:
"Living with the man" Speaks of the instability due to Saddam Hussein
... Hussein stays in power, the future looks bleak for the Gulf region. Iraq used to be a prosperous country. Oil was the main source of income for the area. During the Iran-Iraq War (Gulf War 1), which was from September 1980 to August 1988, Iraq ...
The Palace of the Russian Tsar.
... studying architecture. Quarenghi had been deeply influenced by the Palladian style he saw in around Venice during his youth. He was also impressed by the latest trends in Neo-classical architecture being built in France and the earlier designs of the English architect, Indigo Jones. Catherine ...
Describes the traits of alexander the great as decribed by the ancient authors, plutarch, arrian, and pliny
... of Alexander during his war campaign and how he led his army of men with endurance, self control, and management. Pliny talks about Alexander's ambitiousness, diligence, and intelligence though his desire to learn and know science and nature. The honorable traits that Plutarch, Arrian , and Pliny ...
Anwar Sadat
... Middle East. Two, peace in the Middle East. Three, peace in the Middle East." Anwar Sadat made some major changes in the Egyptian government. In July 1972 Anwar ousted most of ...
Isarel and palestine terrorism
... of at least 1,820 total people killed), hostage taking and other false arrest, indiscriminate attack on civilians, and the destruction of homes. Actions by Israeli allies The Sabra and Shatila massacre occurred on September 16th to 18th, 1982, during the Lebanese civil war ...
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict -- Brief history of the conflict in the Middle East.
... of the Middle East. In 1920, the San Remo conference largely endorsed the 1916 Anglo-French Sykes-Picot Agreement, allocating to Britain the area of present day Jordan, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea and Iraq ...
History of Arafat and the PLO. Argues that Arafat doesn't represent the best interests of the Palestinian people.
... Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, Arafat was one of the few Arab leaders to support him. Any respect that the Palestinians gained by their persistence of the intifada had been eroded by their support for Saddam Hussein. (Bennis, 212) The results of the Gulf War and the situation in the Middle East ...
The Byzantine Empire
... Middle Ages with a population of about one million people. (Encarta) Constantine the Great had established a criterion for the empire to follow throughout its history. It included the harmony of the church, the leaders and the teachers of ...
What do you think were the main features of the Arab Islamic civilisation of the Abbasid Period, and what made that civilisation so vibrant?
... of the greatest students of optics of all time with his theories flourishing up to the seventeenth century (Schacht & Bosworth: 1979:483). The intense efforts of Islamic experts on ophthalmology might be explained by the prevalence of optical diseases in the Middle East ...
Gilgamesh.
... Iraq. The name we call it, " Mesopotamia ," is actually Greek for "between two rivers." The 2 two rivers were the Tigris and the Euphrates.3 The land of Mesopotamia was scarce and lacked good building materials. They built their houses out of ...