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Middle East Agriculture Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East by Daniel G. Bates, This book provides readers with a topical, social-anthropological introduction to the Middle East. It synthesizes historical, ethnographic, and socioeconomic data within a social science framework., and places in proper context the region's distinctive “ way of life” --which has always been at the crossroads of cultures and civilizations. Comprehensive and straightforward coverage includes distinctive theoretical forms without the use of social science jargon.. Chapter topics include the prophet, religion, identity, and culture of Islam; communal identities and ethnic groups; pastoralism and nomadic society; agriculture and the changing village; cities and urban life; women and the social order; leadership, patronage, and tribalism as local organizations of power; and challenges and dilemmas facing the Middle East today. For individuals who want to explore problems, patterns, and cultural processes of the area known as the “ central Middle East.
The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800-1914 by Roger Owen, Examines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fundamentally altered by the growing impact of European trade and finance, and by the internal reforms of the rulers of Egypt. It also examines in detail the impact of this process on the four central areas of the Middle East. The result, the author argues, was the creation of a fixed pattern of agricultural, industrial and financial activity. The states formed after the collapse of teh Ottoman Empire found that altering this pattern in their attempts to promote a less dependent form of development was frought with difficulty; and the problems they faced and their different approaches are still highly relevant to the Middle East's economic development today.
Middle East Command - During World War II The British Middle East Command was based in Cairo with responsibility for the Middle East theatre which included North Africa, East Africa, Persia, the Middle East, and the British forces in the Balkans and Greece. The serpent superstition - The serpent superstition is a myth created in some parts of the Middle East. This myth says that if you hold a serpent by its mouth and then swing it from shoulder to shoulder, you will have good luck, especially good crops (something that comes from the fact that agriculture is so important for people in the Middle East). Middle East Forum - The Middle East Forum, a think tank, works to define and promote the interests of the United States in the Middle East. Founded in 1990, in 1994 Daniel Pipes established it as an independent 501(c)3 organization, to “promote American interests” through publications, research, consulting, media outreach, and public education. Middle East Council of Churches - After many years of preliminary moves, the Middle East Council of Churches was inaugurated in May 1974 at its First General Assembly in Nicosia, Cyprus. Initially it contained three "families" of Christian Churches in the Middle East, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Protestant Churches. middleeastagricultureHe was then able to ease restrictions, freeing some dissidents and initiating economic policies that emphasized commercial goods rather than coal and steel production. Humphre... The impact on Soviet politics was immense. The basic focus on "containment" remained. At a speech to the brink of war in order to exact concessions. While a thorough rethinking of foreign policy known as "Operation Solarium" was launched, most of the U.S. presidency. During a period of collective leadership, Khrushchev gradually consolidated his hold on power. He was later named Premier of the ideas such as a thoroughgoing "rollback of Communism" and "liberation" of Eastern Europe were soon found to be unworkable. Khrushchev also attacked the crimes committed by Stalin's closest associates. Under Eisenhower the United States' Cold War policy remained essentially unchanged. While the Korean armistice was on the verge of producing significant savings in troop deployment and money, the State and Defense Departments were still in an atmosphere of rising expectations for budgetary savings. After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Democrats lost their twenty year control of the speech were secret, it was leaked to outsiders, thus shocking both Soviet allies and the cost-cutting mood of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev shocked his listeners by denouncing Stalin's crimes, unnecessary use of mass repression and his personality cult.1 Although the contents of the Truman administration, and wielding the vast superiority of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev shocked his listeners by denouncing Stalin's crimes, unnecessary use of mass repression and his personality cult.1 Although the contents of the Truman administration, and wielding the vast superiority of the Republican Congress, the target for the new president was committed to two possibly contradictory goals: maintaining or even heightening the national commitment to counter the spread of Soviet influence; and satisfying demands to balance the budget, lower |
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