those injustices have been reduced. Unlike women in America, women in the Middle East still suffer greatly due to inequality. The lack of respect for women in the Middle East has caused severe inequality and cruel social stereotypes. One of the biggest examples of sexism in the Middle East is the hardship women face trying to obtain an education. The reality of the educational opportunities young girls in the Middle East is heartbreaking. “For girls in much of the country, education…
about places in the Middle Eastern? Places where women are property or treated like they are not as worthy to live a good life with respect and freedom of will. In 2015 studies showed that the women's work rate was at 25% and that women made up 49.7% of about 345.5 million people in the Middle East and North Africa region, yet they are still given very few rights. They are restricted and must follow the rules of the men they live with. (Guardianship system) Women in the Middle East; places like…
Muslims. Terrorism. ISIS. Nowadays, when people watch news on TV, they will often hear these words. Violence in the Middle East has caused millions of people to flee for their lives, hoping to reach Europe and start a new life. Many extreme ideas are arising amid all of this discussion, and are resulting in xenophobic actions towards Muslims and others fleeing from ISIS in the Middle East. Many Americans now no longer want Syrian refugees to enter the United States because they are a so-called…
The timeline of events and developments in the Middle East from 1979 to the present are important pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that go to make up U.S. foreign policy in that part of the world. The missing pieces of the puzzle consist of the larger context that was long in the making, especially since the end of WWI, when the centuries-old Ottoman Empire ended, and the empire’s Arab Lands fell under Western control. An ostensibly independent Iran, and Saudi Arabia had been an ally of the U.S. and…
world’s three universal religions, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, which was a result of trading contacts, missionary activity, and military conquest. These characteristics impacted many regions, but one specifically being the Middle East. During this period, the Middle East experienced a change including the separation of Muslims into two branches while still continuing to follow patriarchy throughout both branches. A continuity that existed before and continued through the time period of…
It is interesting how, today, Muslims in the Middle East have a strained relationship with Jewish people. Despite the Quran’s teachings that “any who believe in God, and act righteously… have nothing to fear,” Middle Eastern Jews are under consistent threat from the powerful Islamic forces around them. Islamic terrorists frequently target Jews, something that seemingly goes against the sacred teachings of Islam. The Quran instructs Muslims to be accepting of Judaism (as well as Christianity)…
World War Two broke out in the Middle East soon after conflict arose in Europe during the Fall of 1939. The main theater of war in the Middle East was the Western Desert that buffered Italian Libya and British Egypt. Conflict also arose with rebellion in Iraq as consequence of growing western resentment, and in Syria and Lebanon after French defeat and capitulation to the Nazis. After Britain lost its longtime ally, France, they were left standing alone in the Middle East as the last defense…
Ever since the 9/11 attacks happened Muslims and the middle east became the center for hatred and fear. The American people believed that if they focused on observing, better yet “oppressing”, Muslims then they could prevent another terrorist attack. This led to a series of huge changes in the perceptions of Muslims, racial profiling, a large feeling of Islamophobia, or fear of Islamic people swept the nation, and it also led American-Muslims showing what they felt about the attacks and how they…
in other countries has come at a great price. We have lost thousands of men and women in a war that is not ours. Social, political and economic issues have been a common thing for the Middle East as any place in the word. Would the intervention of the United States help resolve any of these issues in the Middle East? Should the U. S. be involved at all? Many argue that this war has led the U.S. into a deep financial debt. According to the Huffington post “The U.S. war in…
Food in the Middle East The Middle East has many traditional foods. They also have many foods that people eat on a daily basis. Some of the everyday foods include: Manakeesh, grilled halloumi, foul meddamas, and fattdush. Manakesh is known to be similar to pizza in the Arabian world. Grilled halloumi are mini-slabs of goat and sheep milk. Foul meddamas, made of fava beans, olive oil, parsley, onion, garlic and lemon, is not your typical grilled cheese. Fattoush, a tangy salad, is known as the…