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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"From the river to the sea" is a battle cry chanted by pro-Palestinian groups across college campuses and major cities.The phrase, which refers to the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, is often ...

But only 47% of the students who embrace the slogan were able to name the river and the sea. Some of the alternative answers were the Nile and the Euphrates, the Caribbean, the Dead Sea (which is ...

It called for a restoration of the land where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians lived, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, before they left or were forced to leave with the ...

U.S.-backed Syrian militias opposed to President Bashar al-Assad had set the Euphrates River as a red line, saying they would not allow government forces to cross onto the east bank.

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. ...