Iran–Iraq War

The New Assyrian and Persian empires were two of the earliest major empires in the world. First came the Assyrians which ruled from 900-600BC, and the Persians began their rule around 550BC. Even with these two empires becoming major establishments in what is known today as the middle east, they are quite different from each other when it comes to many ideologies. Such differences could include: warfare, religion, social hierarchy, and many other things that shape the way we reflect on two of…

financial assets were secured by the Britain's. in the twentieth century, it proceeded when the patriot pioneer, Mohammad Mossaddeq was ousted by the Britain and the United States. After the Iranian upset in 1979, when America bolstered Iraq in the eight year war, the doubt of the West was…

paradigm of American companies conducting international business in Iraq. Modern day Iraq encompasses the area known through history as Mesopotamia, or land between the rivers, and is generally considered the cradle of civilization. With thousands upon thousands of years of history as its foundation, Iraqi culture is steeped with traditions that are indelible in business. According to research performed by Geert Hofstede, Iraq is a collective hierarchical society that is competitive and…

LARISON, D. (2015). Whose War in Yemen?. American Conservative, 14(5), 19-21. The Middle East, in the recent past, has been a hot bed for war and suffering for millions. The power struggles that exist have fueled war and intervention from western nations, including the U.S. Terrorism has been outsourced due to ideology and religion which led to involvement from the outside entities. This article outlines one of the most recent struggles affecting, literally, millions more with extreme hardship.…

Saddam Hussein was known as a great leader to some but most people know him as a terrorist and a murder. Saddam was born April 28, 1937 in Al-Awja, Iraq and died December 30 2006 in Kadhimiya, Iraq. He was born to a peasant family and later as a teenager Saddam became an anti-British, Arab nationalist ideology of the day. Saddam went to college to study law at the University of Baghdad but later dropped out and joined a party called Ba’ath and the party had a plan to assassinate the Prime…

Life under Saddam Hussein in Iraq was full of immense terror, fear, and distrust. Political dissenters of the regime were forced into detention centers, facing some of the most inhumane treatment, while leaving their families in fear and question. First, Iraqi families of political dissenters in detention centers, such as the family of Amer, were left in fearful wondering on the condition of their loved one. Families were not given any news or updates on their loved one in prison, nor were…

To start, based my the readings of Chapter 10 and the documentary “Islam, Empire of Faith”, much happened during 13th century, such as conquering and crisis. In this essay, I will speak about who the Mevlevi Dervishes and Rumi are, and how tribes ended up in Asia minor. Along with, how Othman managed to turn foreigners to reckon with, a list of Ottoman sultans, and what made Constantinople a important city to the Ottoman. The Mevlevi Dervishes was a Sufi order in Konya. In the Sufi path,…

accomplished and fulfilled. While some differences between Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein are evident, the similarities between each of them are striking. Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 in Tikrit, Iraq. His father left before he was born and his mother was depressed…

Dr. Golkar’s article “Manipulated Society” delves into the study of state manipulation of the population in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This manipulation is used to protect the regime from the “threat from below” where the general public mobilizes and rises up against the state. He points to the Arab Spring as an example of the threat that this poses to non-democratic regimes. This manipulation involves three main components: Manipulation of the mind, manipulation of the body, and…

Islam is the second largest religion in the world, accounting twenty-three percent of the global population. Even though they followed the same religion, Islamic civilizations in the past operated both in similar and different ways. From the beginning of Islamic civilization in the seventh century to the end of the Abbasids in the thirteenth century, numerous political and cultural aspects changed while some retained. Throughout this time period, Islamic civilization experienced cultural…