East Village

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…

member of UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organization) this will be addressing the leaders of Al- Qaeda. The conflict between Israel and the Middle East has been going on for many years now. The United States should have been at the middle easts rescue with foreign aid during hardships and famine. The destruction of Iraq’s villages and the killing of multiple innocent Iraqi civilians is unjust and needs to be relieved and compensated. Now that that is said there are some key points that…

Different but the Same Racism is present in every continent, country, state, province, city, town, and village in the world. It is a part of everyday life, including actions and opinions. There is racism toward every single race, including: Caucasians, Mexicans, African Americans, and Middle Easterns. The world we all live in is filled with stereotypes, discrimination, racism, and hate. Racism is one of the many hate motivated things that is all over the world, especially in the United States…

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…

While they were being told that The United States was invading their country for their security and safety, their towns and villages were being destroyed by the same invaders. Where they were promised peace before, citizens now found themselves without many of their loved ones. This mass destruction could have largely been due to the thirty-one million pounds of bombs that were…

Some say that the middle east is the home of Christianity, but they started to experience persecution and discrimination. During the 1600's persecutions of Christians in the middle east was a major problem during that time. They had to practice their faith in secret because if it was found out that they were practicing Christianity they would be persecuted. There were many attacks against these Christians. All Christian communities were falling apart because they had a high rate of emigration.…

reason why we are here according to Paul. They walked the strait called “Bab el Mandeb”the gate of the grief. It is from Africa to Arabia and made 2500 generations. Paul uses fossil evidence and genography to walk North from Africa into the Middle East. He will walk from Asia to China, to Siberia. Then from Russia he will cross in a ship to Alaska and finally to Tierra Del Fuego. It is 21,000 miles,…

Over 8,000 years ago in what is now present day Jordan, there lived Stone Age hunters. Around 8,000 BC the hunters began farming and living in organized villages. During the Bronze Age, they lived in fortified towns and soon trade routes began to pass through Jordan because of its proximity to two booming trade routes that ran through Egypt and Iraq. Jordan also shares borders with Israel, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. After 1500 BC Jordan divided into organized kingdoms of which included the three…

In the world today, we see so many events happening that sometimes we do not know why they occur. In the western side of the world we see people living in more developed countries such as the United States and Europe. As in the eastern side there are countries that are a lower developed countries for example South west Asia and south Asia. To have a comparison between two countries that I will be explaining about are Europe and South West Asia. Those two regions have a lot of differences in…

The black African slaves of the Middle East were written was being “submissive to slavery”, and were compared to “dumb animals”. They were called, “Abdullah”, meaning, “God’s slave”, a term that could be applied to any person not of the Muslim faith. Throughout Islamic history, there were numerous “Holy Wars” fought with the express purpose of plundering villages and taking groups of people as slaves. These slaves were often castrated, forced into the…