This document is a collection of sources related to various countries and topics in the Middle East region. It includes maps, images, and snippets of text from websites on Islam, individual countries like Syria, Iran and Afghanistan, and broader topics like the Arab Spring uprisings and ongoing conflicts involving ISIS. The sources come from academic institutions, news organizations and NGO websites and date from 2005 to 2014.

1. The Holy City of Mecca. Retrieved April 26,
2010: www.arabia.it/english/ islam/index.html
© Mark M. Miller
World Regional Geography
Dept. of Geography & Geology
The University of Southern Mississippi

2. Middle East World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif
Iraq
Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Syria
Israel
Saudi
Arabia
Turkey

3. https://www.th
estar.com/new
s/world/2017/0
4/04/suspecte
d-chemical-
attack-in-syria-
kills-dozens-
including-
children.html

4. Mirror. President Assad's wife banned from travelling to Europe... but not Britain. March
23, 2012: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/president-assads-wife-banned-from-
europe-770546

5. • Islam: one of the world’s largest and
fastest-growing religions, based on the
revelations of God to the Prophet
Muhammad.
• Muslim (preferred, but also spelled
Moslem): “a follower” of the Islamic faith

6. Les Rowntree; Martin Lewis; Marie Price; William Wyckoff.
2008.. Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a
Changing World, Third Edition.
Prophet Muhammad: ca. 570 – 632

7. Islam for Today. Retrieved January 18,
2006:
www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
Islam
Country with the world’s largest Muslim
population?

8. Islam for Today. Retrieved January 18,
2006:
www.islamfortoday.com/history.htm
Islam
Indonesia

9. “Islamic Front. Muslim nations in Africa.” University of Texas Library
Retreived 09/15/09:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/africa_islam_87.jpg

10. Retrieved February 20, 2012:
http://www.muslimmuseum.org/

14. BBC. Retrived 8/24/06: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41283000/jpg/_41283080_gaza_reu416.jpg

15. “Arab Spring”

16. Jason W. blog. August 10, 2011: http://iejasonw.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/this-week-in-muslim-
culture/

17. USA Today. October 11, 2011: http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2011/10/10/Anti-Gadhafi-fighters-celebrate-
gains-in-Libya-HLF8OMJ-x-large.jpg
Libya

18. International College of Economics and Finance. Retrieved September 8, 2014:
http://monitor.icef.com/2013/01/trends-shaping-higher-education-in-the-middle-east-and-north-
africa/

19. Egypt
Mubasher.info.All about Egypt’s parliamentary elections. Retrieved
December 5, 2011:
http://www.mubasher.info/portal/CASE/getDetailsStory.html?goToHomePage
Param=true&siteLanguage=en&storyId=1946820http://www.mubasher.info/p
ortal/CASE/getDetailsStory.html?goToHomePageParam=true&siteLanguage
=en&storyId=1946820
India TV News. Syria Violence Surges As UN Calls For Protection.
December 3, 2011:
www.indiatvnews.com/news/World/Syria_Violence_Surges_As_UN_Calls_F
or_Protection-5950.html
Syria

20. Faster Times. Syrians fight for their lives as tanks close in. Retrieved June
15, 2011: http://www.thefastertimes.com/politics/2011/06/15/syrians-fight-for-
their-lives-as-tanks-close-in/

21. Telegraph. Syria uprising. Retrieved May 3, 2012:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02154/tank-pics_2154770b.jpg

22. Mirror. President Assad's wife banned from travelling to Europe... but not Britain. March
23, 2012: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/president-assads-wife-banned-from-
europe-770546

23. ISIS / ISIL / Islamic State

24. Spindle, Bill, and Gerald
Seib. 2014. Islamist
Militants Aim to Redraw
Map of the Middle East.
Wall Street Journal. June
12:
http://online.wsj.com/articl
es/islamist-militants-aim-
to-redraw-map-of-the-
middle-east-1402620168

25. Iraq
World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif

26. Economist. Iraq: is the surge going to fizzle? 8/19/07:
http://www.economist.com/world/africa/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9370680

27. Kurdish Democratic Association in
Sweden-lund. Retrieved January 17,
2006:
hem.passagen.se/kdfsltv/hist.html
Retrieved January 17, 2006: homepages.fh-
giessen.de/~hg11245/
Kurdistan

28. Israel &
alestine”
World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif

29. Unimaps. Retrieved January 18, 2006: unimaps.com/israel/
Israel & “Palestine”

30. Eurpopean Union.
Retrieved 8/24/06:
http://ec.europa.eu/co
mm/external_relations/
gaza/intro/index.htm
“Palestine”
Hamas
(Fatah)

31. Les Rowntree; Martin Lewis; Marie Price; William Wyckoff.
2008.. Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a
Changing World, Third Edition.

32. Palestine
Palestine net.
Retrieved
January 18,
2006:
http://www.pal
estine-
net.com/
Palestine net. Retrieved
January 18, 2006:
http://www.palestine-
net.com/geography/gifs/pal
map.gif

33. France-Palestine Organization. Retrieved 8/24/06:
www.france-palestine.org/article318.html

34. Les Rowntree; Martin
Lewis; Marie Price;
William Wyckoff. 2008..
Globalization and
Diversity: Geography
of a Changing World,
Third Edition.

35. Iran
World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif

36. Middle East World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Qatar

37. Turkey
World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif

38. Middle East World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
QatarYemen??

39. University of Texas Libraries. Retrieved May 4, 2010:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/united_arab_emirates_rel95.jpg

40. Google Earth images
Dubai, UAE

41. Hotel Burj Al Arab,
Dubai. Link Muslims. Retrieved May
4, 2010: http://www.linkmuslims.com/

42. Origins: current events in
historical perspective.
Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900
Retrieved April 15, 2013:
http://origins.osu.edu/article/47/images/
National Geographic News.
IRAN PICTURES: 1978-79 Revolution
Echoes Protests Today. Retrieved April
15, 2013:
nalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photo
galleries/iran-protest-david-burnett-
pictures/photo2.html

43. Afghanistan
World Socialist Web Source. Retrieved January 18, 2005:
http://www.wsws.org/tamil/category/meast/MiddleEast.gif

44. YAROSLAV TROFIMOV.
Warlord's Defection Shows
Afghan Risk. Wall Street
Journal. September 2, 2009:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB
125183668667977283.html