Foundations
All Arabs speak this language.
What is Arabic?
The nation that Iraq invaded to start the war.
What is Kuwait?
What is 4?
The US Naval base converted into an offshore detention site for alleged terrorists.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
An Iraqi journalist threw these two items at George W. Bush in 2008.
What are shoes?
The academic who coined the term "Orientalism."
Who is Edward W. Said?
The first name of the young girl who testified before Congress on behalf of the Kuwaiti government.
What is Nayirah?
Osama bin Laden's group, translates to "the base."
What is al Qaeda?
The legislation that resulted in a massive increase in surveillance by the American government.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
The name of the NSA whistleblower who revealed the extent of the US surveillance state.
Who is Ed Snowden?
The two countries that signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
What are France and Great Britain?
What is Tel Aviv?
The country that invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
What was the Soviet Union (or USSR)?
The military name for the US occupation of Afghanistan.
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
The director of Three Kings.
Who is David O. Russell?
The Middle Eastern kingdom with which the US made an exclusive agreement in 1945?
What is Saudi Arabia?
The year that Saddam Hussein came to power.
What is 1979?
The man thought to be the mastermind behind the attacks (he is still at Guantanamo).
Who is Khalil Sheikh Mohammad?
The three countries that made up Bush's axis of evil.
What are Iran, Iraq, and North Korea?
These two filmmaking brothers privately funded Fahrenheit 9/11 after Miramax refused to.
Who are the Weinstein brothers?
The name of the collective of countries who produce the majority of the world's oil.
What is OPEC?
The number of hours that the ground invasion lasted.
What is 100?
Osama bin Laden spent the beginning of the 90s here, before being allowed back into Afghanistan.
Where is Sudan?
The group that became ISIS.
What is Al Qaeda in Iraq?
The US Secretary of State under Clinton who claimed that 1 million Iraqi children dying of famine was "worth it."
Who is Madeleine Albright?