Levant

The Sykes-Picot Agreement in May 1916 between Great Britain and France led to the dismantlement of the Ottoman Empire. France and Great Britain have thus provision and divide Turkish-held Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine into various administrated and controlled areas. The agreement led to the creation of the present-day Syria and Iraq based on artificial borders which will arouse the dissent among populations. While the neighbor countries share part of their historical, religious, and…

The downfall of Judah was a complex and lengthy political ordeal documented over several books of the Old Testament. Two prophets who give their own detailed reasoning for this downfall are Ezekiel and Jeremiah. Both prophets lived during a tumultuous transitionary period of Judah’s history during which Babylon began a systematic deportation and exile of Judah’s citizens. Where the prophets differ, however, is in their message to the elite of Judah in its waning days and their eventual exile.…

connections to the Berber peoples for many centuries. The origins of the trade route begin at around 300 C.E., which define the first major signs of organized caravans of camels that were used to move goods across North Africa and to Europe and the Levant. The major benefit of this trade route was to avoid the dangers of sea routes and hostile enemies that at times made the Trans-Saharan trade route a dangerous, yet worthwhile method of making a greater profit. In this manner, the impact of this…

The formation of Military orders was the most crucial movement for the establishment of crusader states in the Middle-East. When the crusader states first began to form, they were alone in a foreign land with little in the way of established trade routes and constant infighting due to factions from different kingdoms competing among the crusading armies. The movement could have fallen apart at any moment, but military orders, groups of warrior monks, began to form eager to take on all the…

The views on the Middle East based Immigration ranged from an increased population on September 11th living in the U.S. In Middle East is one of the rapid growing Immigrants; Some are legal and illegal. This happened in the 1970’s about 10% illegal Middle East immigration are aliens and in 2010 legal or illegal had grown about 2.5 million of population. In 1970 there was also a crazy increased in the change of religions. Almost 15% some Middle Eastern’s were muslims and the rest were christians.…

the faithful to follow and get aware what is acceptable actions or not. This banner some times is overstated and leaded to Religious sacrifice. These are terrible horrors to this world nowaday, especially, it is from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. There are a lot of the faithful want to sacrify for their belief, so killing is reasonable and necessity and is one part of ISIS's culture or society. ISIS assumes killing is not considered as murder. They killed victims including female and…

have taken a huge turn with the advance in technology. In response to this terrorist attack, President Obama wrote a letter to the Congress of the United States, authorizing for the use of military force (AUMF) against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). President Obama viewed these targeted killings as an act of war, but the issue is whether this act of war can be justified. Establishing whether the threat posed actual imminent threat, will determine if the war had a just cause…

Scarcity and Expansion In chapter six of Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, water affects the Middle East and peripheral lands through social and economic development. This development deals with trade, agriculture, war, and customs in the region as water became essential to the success of Islamic civilization. The first hurdles of Islamic civilization were to overcome the scarcity of water in the Middle East, and afterwards ingrained ideals of water remained as a…

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a terrorist organization consisting of more than 30,000 people. ISIS has been an ongoing problem for over 10 years. ISIS began in 2004 as al Qaeda in Iraq, before rebranding as ISIS two years later. This organization is headed by Iraq-born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry, who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. ISIS has conquered Mosul, which is located in northern Iraq. ISIS makes a portion of…

messages are fostering an environment that is contributing to conflicts within men’s perception of gender acceptable identity. These changing gender norms in modern America have been widely acknowledged throughout gender literature (e.g., Aarseth,2009; Levant,2011; Marsiglio, Amato, Day & Lamb, 2000; O’Neil, 2015; Pleck 1987). One of the most prominent and widely accepted ways of understanding these changes in masculinity is through the lens of gender role conflict theory (Whorely & Addiss,…