What are the boundaries of the Arab world?

The region stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian Ocean in the southeast.

What are the borders of Middle East?

The Middle East lies at the juncture of Eurasia and Africa and of the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.

What is considered the Arab world?

The Arab World consists of 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Is Arab an ethnic group?

listen)), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Western Indian Ocean islands (including the Comoros).

Which Arab countries were consulted in partitioning the Ottoman Empire after ww1?

Officially, the Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon (1923−1946), was a League of Nations mandate founded after the First World War for partitioning of the Ottoman Empire concerning Syria and the Lebanon.

What are the 3 main parts of the Arab world?

Culturally, the Arab states can be divided into 3 regions:

• The Greater Maghreb, which includes Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya.
• The Fertile Crescent, which includes Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan.

What are Arab values?

Arab societies share so many values that include: endurance, loyalty, dignity, generosity, self-respect, pride and revenge. Today, we are going to discuss three basic values that are still prevalent in most Arab societies.

What is behind the Arab uprisings?

At core, the wave of Arab uprisings that commenced in 2011 is this generation’s attempt at changing the consequences of the state order that began in the aftermath of World War One.

Does Arab nationalism dilute the socio-demographic differences in the world?

In the period from the late 1950s to the late 1970s, and especially during the heydays of Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser (from the Suez Crisis in 1956 to the end of the 1960s) Arab nationalism gave immense momentum to the idea that a united Arab world would dilute the socio-demographic differences between its populations.

What happened to the Arab world’s strong men?

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Arab world’s strong men – for example, Hafez Assad and Saddam Hussein in the Levant and Col Muammar Gaddafi in North Africa – suppressed the differences, often using immense brutality. But the tensions and aspirations that these differences gave rise to neither disappeared nor were diluted.