Across the Middle East, and into south-central Asia, the intrinsically artificial qualities of several states have been brought into focus by the omnivorous American response to the attacks of 9/ ...

Mapping the Middle East. During the British Mandate of Palestine from 1917 to 1947, British surveyors mapped the territories to exercise their control over the land and its people.It was an ...

Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East, a place in many ways shaped by changing political borders and demographics. Here are 40 maps crucial for ...

IN NATURE (vol. III, p. 332, 1923) attention was directed to the remarkable uniformity in height of the successive terraces bordering the rivers which open into the Mediterranean Sea and the ...

Map wars in the Middle East: ... an area that stretches from River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Such maps are ... as spanning from the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates. ...