Southwest Asia & North Africa
From Hobson's Choice
Sadi in ecstasy, Persian miniature |
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A region of Africa and Asia with a strongly integrated history. For the last thirteen centuries, the prevailing religion in this region is Islam. For our purposes, it includes the region of Africa north of the Sahel and the Horn (i.e., Somalia and Ethiopia); and the region of Asia south of Turkey, the CIS (i.e., the Sea of Caspian), and west of Pakistan.
This region has been known to Europeans for centuries as the "Near East" and the "Middle East", or the "Orient" (hence, "Orientalism"). It is founded by the Sahara, the Greater Caucasus, and the Hindu Kush Mountains, and has been a region contested by imperial powers for at least three millenia.
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Government
- Gov't & Ref Sites (Gunnar Anzinger)
- N. East S. Asia Ctr-Strategic Studies (NESA), National Defense University (USA)
- US AID | Asia
- CIA World Factbook
- Country Analysis Briefs, Department of Energy EIA
- Jaffee Ctr for Strat. Studies (Israel)
- Country Studies, US Library of Congress
- US Institute for Peace (Research for US Congress)
Multilateral
- Datafinder
courtesy Population Reference Bureau - United Nations System
- Social & Economic Data | ECOSOC
- Econ & Soc Commission-West Asia (ESCWA-Beirut)
- Economic Commission-Africa (ECA-Addis)**Relief & Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
- Regional Page-World Bank Group
News & Media
- Al-Jazeera.Net English - Home Page
- Al-Ahram Weekly
- Arab News
- BBC (UK)
- CSM: Middle East Archive
- Daily Star - Lebanon
- Al-Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] (Egypt) (Site of the political movement)
- Haaretz - English
- Jordan Times
- Payvand News of Iran
- Teheran Times
NGO/University: History
- Middle East & Islamic Studies, Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen, Norway
- Middle East & Islamic Studies, Cornell University, NY
- Comparative Studies of S. Asia, Africa & the Middle East, Duke University
- GA Middle East Studies Consortium, Emory University
- Middle East Institute, George C. Keiser Library, Washington DC
- Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- History of the ME | Database, Northfield Mount Hermon School (MA)
- PASSIA | Chronology | Photos
NGO/University: Current Info
- Algeria Watch
- Amnesty International, Southwest Asia & North Africa
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (Mostly conservative critique of neo-con performance)
- CorpWatch
- Crisis States Research, London School of Economics
- al-Mashriq (Luminous site devoted to Lebanon)
- Doctors without Borders | News
- Human Rights Watch (Southwest Asia & North Africa)
- International Crisis Group (Southwest Asia & North Africa)
- PASSIA | Maps
