Iraq

unhappy with the U.S. intervention in Iraq. They felt themselves as politically depressed by Shia majority, eventually they want to get back the power. However, it is more complex in recent days, because their goals are reformed. ISIS/ISIL want to create a caliphate, which is a very complicated idea in twenty first century. Our intervention…

proximity to the Baghdad air port "Islamic State’s proximity to the airport is especially worrisome, because they are now armed with shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles with a 20-mile range,...it has seized up vast territory in northern Syria and Iraq, could allow the militants to shut down the airport", as stated in the article called ISIS bearing down on Baghdad even as world watches Kobani siege by Fox New, a American news source. The quote shows that the ISIS forces are already planning…

theoretical perspective, explains ISIS and their rise in power. ISIS: Background and Facts on the Case ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), was formed in 1999 and is currently lead by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The stated goal of ISIS is to form an “Islamic Caliphate”, a unified region of Muslim states under a single theocratic rule. ISIS began as a splinter group from al-Qaeda in Iraq, but has only gained significant standing on the world stage after their emergence from the Syrian Civil…

Saddam Hussein was the former dictator of Iraq and controlled the country for 20 years. He terrorized the Iraqi citizens, and completely overlooked their rights. Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937 to a poor family in Tikrit. After he moved to Baghdad as a teenager he join the baath party. He joined to try to get his cousin the dictator of Iraq in July of 1968. He went into hiding shortly after the American invasion. Saddam was captured in December of 2003 and was executed about 3 years…

To: Professor Sean Thelen From: Zeinab Saleh Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 Subject: Business in Saudi Arabia Part I. “Cultural Aspects of doing Business in Saudi Arabia” In doing my research on what potential countries we may do business with, I came across the country of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia being well known and rich for its natural resources of Petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold and copper, I would think that undergoing business in Saudi Arabia can be a highly-beneficial venture…

Over 2/3rds of women in Saudi Arabia have been beaten or violated in some type of way by a male family member. The mistreatment of women is clear all over the world and is a problem all over in many societies no matter where you live, but in Saudi Arabia it is a part of daily life. Over 60% of the women in Saudi Arabia are being mistreated by their guardians, which in most cases is their husbands. In Saudi Arabia, a women cannot do anything outside of the house without the permission of her…

Jarhead Accuracy Hollywood likes to reenact moments of history for the viewer’s pleasure. The retelling of these historical events are usually used to make money, so the accuracy of some movies are not always one hundred percent reliable. This was the case in the movie Jarhead. Piece by piece, as the movie continued some small and large differences between Hollywood magic and reality were very evident. Even so, Jarhead has some historical value, but it was used predominantly as a money…

The Ottoman Empire, was an empire created by some Turkish Tribes at the end of the 13th Century, in the North-Western Anatolia. The Ottomans were known as warriors for the faith of Islam, who were inspired and sustained by Islam and Islamic Institutions. The Ottomans most successful period was between the 16th and 17th centuries. During this period, the Ottoman Empire expanded out over three continents. This covers what we know today as Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia,…

Similar to the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire experienced a rise and fall and began its reign with the Islamic religion. Members of the Safavid tribe were the founders of a sunni sufi religious brotherhood in Azerbaijan, which was popularly fought over by other empires including the Ottoman Empire. A major differentiating factor for the Safavids was that their making of Shiite Islam the state religion of Iran made it very different from its neighboring Sunni Muslim empires. This…

HIST 203 Final Paper The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 by Halil Inalcik The Palace: A Microcosm of the Empire The history of the palace in terms of early Ottoman history is crucial to our understanding of power and social structures within the empire. In Inalcik’s book on the Classical Age, he devotes many pages to discussing the importance of the palace and its position at the centre of ottoman imperial power. Inalcik’s argument seems to predominantly be that the origin for all…