Iran–Iraq War

Historical context of The Epic of Gilgamesh dates all the way back to around 2000 BCE. This story was written down by a society of people that dwelled in old Mesopotamia, called the Sumerians. This area is located in what is now the Middle East, or Iraq. Around this time, the Sumerians lived in Uruk. This ancient city was located in what was called the fertile crescent.…

Reagan administration did during the Contra-Iran Affair was wrong from a political, ethical, and moral standpoint. From a strategic standpoint, there is a different story. In regards to the Iran-Iraq war, the main objective of Reagan’s administration was revealed, which was to lengthen the Iran-Iraq war. The US (along with Israel and its European allies) did not want a powerful Iran under the rule of Islamic Republic. They saw the Islamic Republic of Iran as a force that challenges the interests…

This research is crucial to understanding the modern political and religious climate surrounding radical Islam. Islam is currently going through trials and tribulations and posed with the ultimate question of pluralism. Christianity seemed to to go through this crucible in the seventeenth century with the Enlightenment. While Christianity always had small-scale struggles regarding religious freedom post-Enlightenment with the majority Protestant persecution of Catholics, the question of…

Iraqi Constitution in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. It goes into great detail how the failure in the part of the CPA actors regarding influence of religion and nationalism changed and delayed the implementation of the Iraqi constitution. Even though religion is related to the culture of the group by way of personal and collective identity, it also has a social function within the society it works. Therefore, in Post Saddam Iraq, the Grand Ayatollah Sistani was able to…

In this paper, I will be comparing two primary documents: The Epic of Gilgamesh and Code of Hammurabi. I have chosen these documents for the insight they gave us about Mesopotamia civilization, the world’s first civilization. They also have great importance in understanding and shaping contemporary society. The Epic of Gilgamesh was written around 2000 B.C.E and gives details about the society at that time. They are historically significant as they are the origins of civilization that shaped the…

1. Introduction Negeri Kedah is well known for their archaeological park and also their paddy field. Kedah are located at the north peninsular of Malaysia. Negeri Kedah are also known as ‘Rice Bowl of Malaysia’ because when you travel around Kedah, you can see that Negeri Kedah are surrounded with paddy field. Paddy field in Kedah are around two third of the ground in Kedah. Besides that, Kedah are also covered with forest and the forests are open for recreational park for the citizen. Kedah are…

• The historical significance of the term Fertile Crescent is that this is the piece of land the Mesopotamians depended on agriculture. The reason was that in the region the Mesopotamian’s lived in; there was only an arc of land that was the only adequate farming land near Mesopotamia. • The historical importance of the word Mesopotamia is that this was one of the first city-states ever built. The reason for that is every year the Tigris and Euphrates River will flood Mesopotamia which will…

Raymond III interjected as he wanted Baldwin’s sister to marry somebody he could easily control in order to maintain power over Jerusalem. So he launched an invasion essentially launching a civil war. The other states in Outremer were virtually totally dependant on Jerusalem's support to survive so this civil war meant crisis for…

Similarly many academics have theorized about the role to which Islam played in the ethnic and nationalist formations of the Kurds. In his essay “The Impact of Islam on Kurdish Identity in the Middle East,” Hakan Ozoglu argues that Kurdish identity evolved through various, overlapping phases with Islam at the core of its formation process, a process he calls “dialectical, dialogical, and monological” (18). First, while the term “Kurd” was not ethnically associated with the modern term Kurd,…

Final Essay-Something creative Introduction “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country 's representatives can figure out what is going on.” This was released by Trump’s campaign on June 28th of 2016—he is now the president-elect of the United States. Since 9/11, Americans have been taught to embrace islamophobia by big media outlets attempting to profit off injecting fear into the general public’s mind, spreading the…