GEOGRAPHY
What is the Longest River in the world and the Middle East?
What is THE NILE
Which Empire ruled the majority of the Middle East and Arabia between 1500s-1900s?
What is THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Which language was heavily influenced by Arabic, to the point that 8% of the language is derived from Arabic?
What is SPANISH
What is the popular folk dance in levant?
What is DEBKE
What are the pan arab colors? BONUS What do they represent?
What is BLACK, WHITE, GREEN and RED. The Umayyad, Fatimid and Abbasid caliphates and the Hashemite dynasty.
Where is the lowest point on Earth?
What is THE DEAD SEA
Where did coffee roasting as we know it now originate from?
What is YEMEN
What country has the most Arabic speakers?
What is Egypt
Who are the two most popular female singers from the Middle East?
Who is Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum and Lebanese singer Fairuz.
What arab country is the most religiously diverse?
What is LEBANON. The Lebanese government officially recognizes 18 different religious sects.
What is the body of water that separates the Middle East from Africa?
What is THE RED SEA
What is the worlds tallest building and the worlds tallest monument? (both still standing tall to this day)
What is the, Burj Khalifa (Dubai, UAE) and The Great Pyramid of Giza (Egypt)
What is Semitic and Afroasiatic
Who is considered the Arab Taylor Swift?
Who is Nancy Ajram.
What country has the oldest continous monarchy?
What is The Alawi Dynasty of Morocco (in power since 1631)
What is ONE of the THREE most strategic waterways in the Middle East?
What is: Suez Canal, Strait of Hormuz, Bab Al-Mendab Strait
What country holds the oldest university that is still in operation?
What is University of al-Qarawiyyin in MOROCCO
How many countries have arabic as their official language?
What is 25
What is a pear shaped string instrument that is common in middle eastern and Mediterranean?
What is an OUD
What country is considered to have the first set of laws and legal code?
What is IRAQ
What are the five states with the highest Arab American populations?
What is California, Michigan, New York, Texas, and Florida
Where did the first modern style hospital originate?
What is: The Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital in Cairo, Egypt
What are the 3 languages OTHER THAN ARABIC that originated in MENA?
What is: Aramaic, Hebrew, Farsi, Kurdish
What country has the best soccer team right now, and was the first Arab and African team to reach a World Cup semi-final?
What is MOROCCO
What country has one of the highest percentages of female researchers and scientists in the Arab world?
What is TUNISIA