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practice and around three million girls will undergo this “procedure” every year. Of all of the countries in the Middle East and Africa that still hold true to this tradition, 95% of girls from those countries have gone through female circumcision. Why is this still happening today? The answer is simply because of religious beliefs. It is required in a few religions around the Middle East and Northeastern Africa. Muslims, Animists, and even a those who practice a religion that is widely…

Social unrest began in Tunisia on December 17, 2010 and quickly spread across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, most notably in Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Morocco, forming what is known as the Arab Spring. Many of these demonstrations evolved into revolutions resulting in the overthrow of longstanding authoritarian governments. However, in other countries, social unrest peaked and then dwindled, either as a result of suppression by the government or softened by…

Nationalism in Iraq Iraq was established on October 1,1919. In World War I the British occupied a lot of Mesopotamia and were given a demand over the area in 1920. The British renamed the area Iraq and defined it as a kingdom in 1922. In 1932 the monarchy gained full independence. The Iraqi population includes Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Armenians. The religions are varied and consists of Shi'a and Sunni Muslims, Christians, Kurdish Yazidis, and a little number of Jews…

Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights is a compilation of Middle-Eastern folklore and contains great cinematic potential in terms of Mise-En-Scene. Though the story primarily takes place in the Middle East, various tales from all over the Eastern hemisphere are told throughout the play. Creating a film that contains so many different cultures requires an emphasis on costume design, makeup and setting to ensure each diverse location is represented and each culture is portrayed respectively. In…

McFerran Mrs. Cullen AP World History May 8, 2017 Living in West Berlin vs East Berlin: Thesis Paper The Berlin Wall was built in the August of 1961, when the East German soldiers constructed more than thirty miles of a barbed wire barrier through the center of Berlin, Germany. The citizens of East Berlin were forbidden to pass into the Western side. Soon this barbed wire would be replaced by concrete. (Taylor, 458) East German authorities revealed that this wall would protect their citizens…

One of the major ways Muhammad Ali changed our country was because of his actions in the Persian Gulf War. In 1990, a tragic event happened in the world known as the Persian Gulf War. This was a time where Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, attempted to take over neighboring area Kuwait and used several aerial attacks to take down Kuwait. This seriously injured and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Kuwait citizens which was not good for the economy or the other countries around Kuwait. Many…

Halana Kaleel SOC 366 17 October 2014 Uganda Early Uganda and Colonization by Britain Before Uganda was colonialized in the late 1800’s, the area of Uganda was a variety of different ethnic and religious groups. However, the Bugandans who live in the southern part of present day Uganda were the largest. The northern part of present day Uganda was Sudanic and Nilotic tribes, and there was strain between the north and south. Uganda is on the great lakes of central Africa, and located on the…

discussion this week I decided to delve into extremism and the factors in personality that can turn strong differences in opinion to aggression and violence. The event that precipitated my interest in this subject is the recent rise of the IS in the Middle East. IS stands for Islamic State. The Islamic State has taken advantage of the ongoing Syrian civil war to stake a claim to land in both Syria and Iraq, proclaiming that they have formed a new caliphate. Of particular interest to me is the…

It is no surprise that the US has chosen to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The diplomatic Israel-US relationship over the past century has consisted of emphatic one-sided US support towards Israel. The US has and continues to provide Israel with military and financial support, sympathy, and defense in the United Nations (Walt & Mersheimer 39). Why the US continues to unconditionally provide Israel with such support is blurred among varying constructed rationales. The most…

Islam had many achievements during the Golden Ages and one of the greatest accomplishment is The House of Wisdom. In the 8th century, The House of Wisdom was built by Al-Rasheed, who is part of the Abbasid Dynasty. The House of Wisdom was a place full of knowledge and wisdom and is known as a symbol of the spread and expansion of traditions from other culture, nation, and empire. The main purpose of the House of Wisdom was to gather books or manuscripts from other culture, nation, or empire to…