Predynastic Egypt

According to the newspaper article, "Lights out in the West" (1), Iraq's Christian numbers have declined from 1.5 million to 200,000. Conjointly, thousands of Syrian Christians have been tortured and killed (1). The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, better known as ISIS, is held accountable for these madhouse exterminations. ISIS is a callous terrorist organization that has rounded themselves on the inception of Islam terrorism, or witnessed as the Muslim Brotherhood. They domineer over Muslims…

The Arabian Peninsula is a harsh but beautiful desert landscape. Its location in the world in many ways influenced the unique culture that it came to be today. The amount of land suitable for farming and agriculture was difficult to find. This created a culture that split into two ways of life known as settler and nomadic. Nomads, or ‘bedouins,’ were small tribes that would travel from place to place, seeking water and grazing land for their herds. Because there was so little land to farm in…

The areas of influence in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq have a long history of wanting to create their own nation state to be controlled by a centralized government without outside interference from the western countries of France and Britain. The region is very diverse and more ‘modern’ than believed to be. The people should be allowed to govern themselves since the area was doing fine on its own before Britain and France had any interest there. Ever since the Western…

The book “The Alchemist” is a story about a young boy named Santiago, he has a recurring dream about him finding treasure, the story is about his journey to find it. Along the way his character grows, and it develops into a character that you root for in his struggles. At the end of the story you are left with a character that has both positive and negative traits. Traits such as him being too trustworthy, and him proposing to a girl he only saw for a brief moment the day before. Santiago is a…

on the future of modernization of Egypt. He and other rulers knew they would have to adjust to the modern world or be consumed by it. Egypt initiated political and social reforms partly to block European domination of its land. Muhammad Ali was the leader after Napoleon failed to win Egypt. Beginning in 1831, he fought a series of battles in which he gained control of Syria and Arabia. Muhammad Ali and his heirs were recognized as the hereditary rulers of Egypt. Muhammad Ali began a…

UC Prompt 1 The wars and battles that took place in Sudan drastically changed the people of the county as they knew it. Many were of innocent people being killed everyday based on their religions and beliefs. With hatred towards many Christians from a country populated with Islam’s, living in Sudan was not considerably a safe place to continue staying at. My family was one to experience this hardship with the impactful and unforgettable passing of my father. He was a pastor and passed away due…

as for that, I spoke English more for that reason and another reason was that I was in America at the time. In Egypt I spoke more English and for that I was treated as a foreigner and was called differently as well as the way I was treated. I was called in American in Egypt a lot because I traveled from America to Egypt and when I went back to America I was called an Egyptian. In Egypt I was asked a lot of questions and struggled a lot with the language as such I had to ask what the words meant…

Becoming the Wind During the climax of the novel, the chief of the tribe holding the Alchemist and Santiago hostage, challenges the boy to turn himself into the wind or face death, and Santiago must use everything he he has learned throughout his journey to accomplish this seemingly impossible task. The boy stands on a high cliff with the Alchemist and the chief, and figuratively converses with the wind and sky. At first, the boy is nervous, but after spending three days trying to figure out…

Religion did play a role as the emergence of Mohamed Morsi, an Islamist leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, would ascend to be democratically elected as president of Egypt on 30 June 2012. Although trying to be a religiously tolerant nation by diversifying the government leaders, Morsi’s Islamic tendencies bled through and the populace started to take notice. It would have appeared that nationalism was being replaced…

Egypt seemed to be a nation ready for the influence of the Revolution to take hold with a firm grasp. It was accepted by many revolutionary thinkers that “Egypt [was] in a very critical condition” and that “Egyptians [had] looked to the West and then to the East and then to Arab nationalism without finding the answer to their problems” both socially and economically. Additionally, Ibrahim Yazidi, the Deputy Prime Minister for Revolutionary Affairs of Iran, predicted, correctly, that Egypt would…