INTRODUCTION 1. SaadZaghloul was the first President of independent Egypt. Cromir was Zaghloul’s friend. In Cromir’s government, Zaghloul was made a cabinet minister. Zaghloul also became the leader of WAFD party. 2. During WWI, he agitated against Britain, so police arrested him. After the war, some Egypt political leaders asked British commissioner to give Egypt […]
Read More »Ibn Saudi was the founder of modern day Saudi Arabia. The first relationship with the British was officially declaSred by Al Saud in 1902. Ibn Saud wanted Saudi Arabia to be the dominant power in the Arabian peninsula. He had a major drawback –during complex situations, he was not able to take decisive actions. In […]
Read More »The Middle East region encompassing many sovereign states of West Asia and North Africa is a centre of world’s earliest civilization. Many countries of the region containing large quantities of crude oil acquired strategic and economic importance since second half of the 20th century. The region covering Baharain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, […]
Read More »INTRODUCTION: U.S Policy towards Middle East has been framed by a certain strategic conception of world order that is widely shared, though there are tactical disagreements, sometimes sharp ones, even we can see this during the debate in the United states over the Gulf Crisis. There are also important changes in the world, to which […]
Read More »How economists define ‘development’ has long been a source of debate and discussion. For the oil producers of the region, the traditional definition of growth in per capita gross national income has always been of limited value. First, because as a mean average it takes no account of income distribution which is particularly relevant where […]
Read More »The fate of the Iranian nationalization, ousted Dr Mossadegh, the architect of the nationalization process, faced a death sentence from the new government following the coup of 1954 designed by the British and Americans to resolve the nationalization dispute. Second, there was concern that nationalization would break up the majors’ control of the international oil […]
Read More »The British administration in Palestine was accepted by the League of Nations in 1923 as part of portioning the Ottoman Empire after the end of the First World War. United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) was formed in 1947 at the request of Britain and it gave its proposals for the partition of […]
Read More »In 71 A.D, a number of Jews were driven out from Palestine which was then their homeland by the Romans and over the next 1700 years there were hardly a few Jews came back in the area to make the Arabs feel threatened. In the 7th century, Arabs had a vast empire which stretched from […]
Read More »Zionism is a political and national movement for the establishment of a Jewish state in the Palestinian region which is considered as a homeland. The word Zionism is derived from the word Zion which is associated with Jerusalem. Even though Theodor Herzl wasn’t the first one to suggest the establishment of the Jewish state, he […]
Read More »Oil crisis, a sudden rise in the price of oil that is often accompanied by decreased supply. Since oil provide the main source of energy for advanced industrial economics an oil crisis can endanger economic and political stability throughout the global economy Background: Since the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Middle […]
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