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is important to the Iranian revolution because it’s relation with regional politics, and the power to challenge the legitimacy of the state. After the revolution, the ideology became apparent in social, economic, and cultural policies for the Middle East. Some of these policies included the way people should dress, for example women were banned from uncovering their hair and body parts such as their arms. It was also important because it represented that religion stimulated profound social…

their authority amongst each continent of the world. The Middle East is not exempt from such, and has a history involving America, Britain, France and Russia. In order to assess the influence of these powers, the following essay will analyse how they shaped Middle Eastern politics from the eventful years of 1914 until 1990. This will be done by looking at the continuities and the discontinuities in Western policies towards the Middle East, starting from World War One in regards to the…

The most useful component which gives Gwadar port the most political and financial significance is that Gwadar is a connecting locale. Gwadar Port is a connection between the East and the West. Gwadar can change the vital environment and economy of the whole political group. Pakistan government started Gwadar port venture however has not offered regard for it in these previous couple of years. Gwadar is no more the top need…

and the Soviet Union created the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the East. East Germans were banned from leaving the country, but in Berlin you could just take the bus to the western half. According to TED-Ed's video, this became a big problem of East German leadership. "East Germany secret police listened…

What was the conflict? How did it start? The conflict is between East Berlin, which was part of East Germany and West Berlin, which was actually located belonged to West Germany. On a bigger scale this was a conflict between Communism VS. Democracy. Which parties got involved and why? The western nations and the Soviet union only allied together in the second world war to defeat Germany. At the end of the war tensions resumed between the allies. However It was also decided at the end of the…

As Central Asian scholars brought in influence from Eastern Europe, especially the Ottoman empire, they discovered the growing importance of education and attempted to further the idea among Central Asian elites. The Patricide by Mahmud Khoja Behbudiy is a play that exemplified the very values of those scholars, who were known as Jadidists. In the play, Behbudiy introduced two ranges of characters which represented the divided attitude in the acceptance of Jadidist beliefs. One side involved…

Said claims the boundaries are “arbitrarily drawn” by delineating his abstract notion of imaginative geography which originated from nature of humanity. In concerning this imaginary space “some distinctive objects are made by the mind, and that these objects, while appearing to exist objectively, have only a fictional reality,” in exemplification “[a] group of people living on a few acres of land will set up boundaries between their land and its immediate surroundings and territory beyond,…

Webster’s Dictionary defines religion as “the belief in a god or in a group of gods”. Statistics revealed by the World Religion Project in 2013 shows religious decline across the globe. The percent of Muslims in the Middle East has gone from 71% in 1945 to 55% in 2010. Jews in the Middle East and Europe have decreased between 1950 and 2010 from 9.5% to 3.9%. In the same time frame Buddhism has seen almost a 10% decrease in Asia. Christianity in Europe has dropped from 90% in 1945 to 75% in…

275,000 planes transported 1.5 million tons of supplies and a plane landed every three minutes at Berlin 's Templehof airport (BBC). The Russians saw that their allies were not going to give up. Russia called off the blockade. At this point is where East and West Germany became the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). They each then gained rights of their own portions of the city of Berlin. The Soviets were not happy about having to give up a portion of…

For Eastern Europe, the 20th century was nothing short of tumultuous; two world wars and stints with totalitarianism troubled the continent. Because of all that happened, it is hard to encompass the breath of the 20th century in a single work. Therefore, it seems that the question “What work best represents the turmoil in Eastern Europe during the 20th century?” does not have an answer. How can one work encompass the mess that was the 20th century? Is it possible to represent the varying…