Ancient Near East

establishing the Camp David Accords which helped ease tension between the Arabs and Israeli. On November 9, 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat announces that he is "ready to go to the Israeli parliament itself" to resolve the Mid-East conflict. This is despite the fact that the two countries do not have diplomatic relations and are technically still at war. On November 15,1977, through the US, Israel formally extends an invitation to Sadat to visit the country. On November…

It was an unusually cold day for Berlin in June. The year was 2014. The girl walked north from Potsdamer Platz towards Shonëberger Straße, passing a small piece of The Wall that was left standing, ironically juxtaposed against the high-rising Kolhoff Tower immediately behind it. The wall was crumbling and popping with political graffiti. Behind it, the tower was made almost entirely of glass, looking futuristic as it loomed atop the city skyline. This kind of contrast was not unusual in Berlin.…

FFreedom for the people of Berlin is what Reagan was trying to achieve. He says that they shouldn’t be separate from the rest of Europe or even the rest of the world. The people of Berlin should have the freedom, to travel across Europe without being in fear. There freedom should not be held back by this wall. They cannot live in fear the rest of their lives. The United States is all about freedom, furthermore that is why many presidents in the past have traveled to Berlin, to help get their…

war in the Middle East and economic difficulties in the U.S, Obama strived to maintain the U.S.’s global leadership and dominant role at an inexpensive cost. With the help of the National Security Council, Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture, and intelligence agencies. The Obama Administration succeeded in its endeavors to ensure the country's progress and security. The Administration handled conflicts in the Middle East with countries…

After the First International Conference on the sleeping sickness in 1907 I was sent to the Gold Coast in western Africa to study the disease and provide new ways for the British Government to combat the disease. Sleeping sickness is a vector-born, a parasitic pathogen, disease spread by the tsetse fly. The disease comes in multiple stages. The first stage’s symptoms include fever, itchiness, joint pain, and mild headaches. The second stage is how the disease gets its name because people who get…

The Fall of the Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, one of Europe’s greatest powers, . There are many causes of the the Ottoman Empire’s demise. Unemployment and economic decline developed severe ramifications on an already climbing debt. Rising debt obligated business owners to constrict production which lead to poor manufacturing. Unprosperous exportation of products constituted for a substantial reliance on agriculture, which lost the battle of competition between other agricultural…

The Arab Spring has challenged the authoritarian resilience paradigm that had been dominant in academics since the early 2000s. Scholars within this paradigm focused on the lack of democracy within the region and attributed this lack to a number of factors and dynamics. This paradigm was normative in the sense that authoritarian resilience was seen as a negative and in need of change (Lob 2015). Even though as authoritarian resilience was perceived to be negative there was no expectation that…

“Why border lines drawn with a ruler in WW1 still rock the Middle East” was written in 2013 by Tarek Osman of BBC news. This article relates to the readers exactly why the borders are where they are in the Middle East, and how it is affecting them. To start off, the lines were drawn by two men, Sykes who is from Britain and Picot who is from France. These men apparently had immense knowledge of the Middle East, yet the lines that they drew did not attribute to that. Both countries, Britain and…

and slavery. Many positions within their military and government structures were filled by non-Muslims slaves; including elevated positions not often associated with slavery. Finally, both capitulated to outside military force, the former from the East and the latter from the West. Contrariwise, the Ottomans had tactical advantages…

The Middle East Evan Graff The UN Mandate had a huge effect on the Middle East overall because it did nothing but cause more conflict to the region. The Mandate helped the creation of Palestine but worsened the surrounding area by pushing out Israelis and also causing some surrounding countries to want that land and try to take it. Most wars in the Middle East region are related to the Government, Religion or Terror Acts. The Middle East is still in rough shape due to the conflicts of Religion…