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- Middle East -- CIA World Factbook
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general information
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timelines
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holidays
- Holidays in the Middle East -- Wikipedia
- Public and Banking Holidays for the Middle East -- Q++ Studio
travel
- Lonely Planet Worldguide > Middle East >
national anthem
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newspapers / networks specific to the Middle East
- The Media in the Middle East -- BBC News
- AllYouCanRead.com > Newspapers > Asia > Middle East
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- economist.com > countries > Middle East
- GlobalEDGE: International Resource Desk > Country Insights > Middle East
- topix.net > Front Page > World News > Middle East >
newspapers / newsnetworks of regional Middle East scope
radio
- OneWorld Radio
- The World -- BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston

government resources
- U.S. International Information Programs: Middle East and North Africa -- U.S. policy and issues focusing on the North Africa, the Levant, Iraq and the Persian Gulf region
language
- Arabic Dictionaries
- Arabic Language -- Wikipedia
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- Persian language (Farsi) -- Wikipedia
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food
- World Food Info: Africa and Middle East
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- Middle East cuisine -- Wikipedia
  - Cookbook:Arab cuisine
- Wine in the Middle East -- Wikipedia
- World Food Habits: Bibliography -- Robert Dirks
- Middle East -- Anthropology of Food-Food Science
- World Hearth Circle of International Cooking > Middle Eastern
- Standing, Tom. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. NY: Walker, 2005.
- Zubaida, Sami and Richard Tapper (Eds.). A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East. NY: Tauris, 2001.
- Roden, Claudia. The New Book of Middle Eastern Food: Expanded and Updated. NY: Knopf, 2001.
- Perry, Charles. "Cooking with the Caliphs." This article appeared on pages 14-23 of the print edition of Saudi Aramco World, July/August 2006, pp. 14-23. <http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200604/cooking.with.the.caliphs.htm>
- Bottero, Jean, and Teresa Lavender Fagan. (2004). The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Nasrallah, Nawal. (2010). Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's 10th-Century Baghdadi cookbook [Kitab al-Tabeekh]. Brill. (WebSite: http://iraqicookbook.com/about_nawal. Accessed 28 June 2013).
- Nasrallah, Nawal. (2011). Dates: A Global History. London: Reaktion Books (WebSite: http://iraqicookbook.com/about_nawal. Accessed 28 June 2013).
- Nasrallah, Nawal. (2013). Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine. Equinox Publishing, 2nd Edition. Sheffield, UK. (WebSite: http://iraqicookbook.com/about_nawal. Accessed 28 June 2013). www.iraqicookbook.com
  - Babylonia and Beyond: History of Iraqi Cuisine. Interview on the Heritage Radio Network.org: A Taste of the Past - Episode 135. First Aired - 05/23/2013 12:00 PM
- Saudi Aramco World
- Kelley, Laura. New Flavors for the Oldest Recipes. Saudi Aramco World, November/December 2012.
- Iranian Cuisine and Recipes -- Cooking Software Australia
- Tatste of Beirut
religion
- World Religions
- Sacred Destinations > Middle East -- Holly Hayes
- The Islamic World to 1600 -- University of Calgary
- Sacred -- British Library
the arts
architecture
- Vernacular Architecture of the World: Great Buildings Online > Mideast > -- Kevin Matthews and Artifice
cities
archaeology
- Arab Spring Impacts Archaeology Libya/Egypt/Tunisia/Syria -- Top 10 Discoveries of 2011, Archaeology Volume 65 Number 1, January/February 2012

Other WebSites
- Famous Middle East People
- UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
- UN News Centre: The Middle East
- Global Voices Online -- Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School
- H-Net Discussion Networks -- Humanities and Social Sciences ONLINE
  - H-Gender-MidEast -- Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Asia, Iran, and the Mediterranean.
- UNESCO WebWorld Portals >> Observatory Portal on the Information Society >> Regions >> [International] >> Middle East
- Echoes of Africa -- musical clips and information about musical instruments across Africa -- BBC
- Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa
- African Union
- International Council of African Museums
- Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy -- Global Gateway, The Library of Congress
- Travelers in the Middle East Archive
- Chatham House Research: Middle East and North Africa
- Comment is Free > CIF Middle East -- The Guardian
- Mesopotamia: Birthplace of Civilisation -- Guides to the Ancient World, Guardian (11 November 2010)
- Saudi Aramco World
- The Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Lesson Plans

Ottoman Empire Map

from Imperial History of the Middle East: 5000 Years of History in 90 seconds -- Maps of War

The 90 second synopsis includes . . .

Egyptian Empire

Hittite Empire

Kingdom of Israel

Assyrian Empire

Babylonian Empire

Persian Empire

Macedonian Empire

Roman Empire

Byzantine Empire

Sassanid Empire

The Caliphate

Seljuk Empire

Crusader Kingdoms

Saladin Empire

Mongol Empire

Ottoman Empire

European Colonialism

Modern Nation-States

Note the recapitulation in about 3.5 seconds

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