History of Jordan

Israel & Palestine Conflict It is interesting to think that such that the modern conflict, like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, started almost hundred years ago in the heart of both eastern and western Europe. Today Jewish nationalism is now known as Zionism, its origins stem from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. There are many political and social actions that created a foundation for Zionism. Most notably three stand out the most, the first being Dreyfus Affair of 1894, secondly the…

Although there has always been tension between Syrians and their government, the tension officially erupted on March 2011 with the punishment of revolutionary teenagers. This marked the end of peaceful protests as consequences for rebelling against the government became more severe. Since then, the conflict has escalated, leading to a loss of more than 300,000 lives and the displacement of six million people throughout Middle Eastern countries. While financial aid for Syrian refugees has…

democracy. More than 250,000 have died, 1.2 million have fled the country, and more than 6.5 million people are trapped inside war bound Syria (‘’Syria: The story of the conflict’’) . Although many of the refugees have fled to neighboring countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; the UN has safely relocated many others in European countries. However, countries like the U.S and Canada are still very averse to accepting high numbers of Syrian refugees into their borders. Since the beginning of…

Isis Isis, also called Daesh and Isil, is a Militant/terrorist organization that primarily operates in areas of Western Iraq and Syria. Many members are found throughout all countries and even in our very own backyard. They attempt to target many young people for recruiting through various mediums such as social media. Isis came to power after forcing themselves into western Iraq, they overtook many major cities and declared themselves a caliphate ("Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)."…

Throughout the First World War, two opposing alliances existed. The first being, the Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The second, the Central Powers: Germany, Bulgaria, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. Of particular interest to these states is that of the Ottoman Empire. In 1916 during the First World War, France, Britain and Russia began to create a divided Ottoman Empire between them, sketched out on a map. This secret agreement, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, so named…

The series of revolts, protests, violent clashes and revolutions that occurred in the North Africa & Middle East (MENA) region between 2010 and 2012, which was later tagged the ‘Arab Spring’, received abundant media coverage within its region and on a global scale. On a regional level; according to Noura Alalawi, a 24-hour, round-the-clock coverage of the civil unrest and protests was made available by Al Jazeera, a Qatari state-funded broadcaster (Alalawi, 2015). By the same token, according to…

The continued support of Israel by the United States led to the 1973 Oil Embargo because the encroachment on Arab sovereignty through the strengthening of Israel instilled a sense of solidarity amongst Arab states, so that they would unite in order to impose an effective retaliation against this perceived form of imperialism. The United State’s support of Israel led to the emergence of shared anti-American feelings in the Arab world because Israel was seen as an extension of colonialism.…

The Involvement of Iraq is a Lesson the US Need to Learn Since the end of World War II, the US have been intervening on the region and country of the Middle East more than anywhere else in the world. Americans consider the Middle East as a luxurious region to settle due to the high quantity of oil found in that region. Despite the vast amount of economic and political change to many Arab country doing that period, The US created different foreign policy. These different policies have seemed as…

11.3 million people have been displaced by the civil war in Syria and, despite a lack of coverage recently in the media, the number is only growing (World Vision). When asked, people guessed the number of refugees to be in the thousands and one even responded “is that still going on?” (Mason). We, as people of the world, should help out the refugees by all able-countries working together to assist diplomatically, socially, and economically. In addition, informing the masses about this ongoing…

“Everything is happening at once and everything is happening to everybody” is a quote from the World Service Authority’s article “World Citizenship Defined” (Lechner & Boli 492). This quote means to say that what happens in the world affects everyone in one way or another. In a sort of butterfly effect phenomenon, the civil war in the Syrian Arab Republic and the ensuing flight of several million Syrians across Europe has affected the economies of several countries, albeit in different ways and…