Who's Who
The first president of the Republic of Turkey.
Who is Mustafa Kemal?
The tripartite attack on Egypt by Israel, France, and the United Kingdom.
What is the Suez War?
A group of countries that coordinate to set production and prices of oil.
What is OPEC?
It was the physical and political center of the 2011 Egyptian uprising.
What is Tahrir Square?
It established a system of tutelage to oversee political and economic development for countries "unable to stand on their own" after World War I.
What is the League of Nations Mandate System?
Often called the ideologue of the Iranian Revolution, he wrote about the idea of Gharbzadegi.
Who is Ali Shariati?
Meaning "catastrophe", it is the name Palestinians use for the 1948 war.
Mohammed Reza Shah's secret police force.
What is SAVAK?
It united Sunni and Shi'i, urban and rural populations in protest against the attempted imposition of direct British colonial rule after World War I.
What is the 1920 Iraq Revolt?
An attempt at top-down modernization and economic development in Iran in the 1960s.
What is the White Revolution?
He was exiled to Malta after petitioning Reginald Wingate for permission to attend the Paris Peace Conference.
Who is Sa'ad Zaghlul?
What is the Baghdad Pact?
The successor to Standard Oil of California.
What is ARAMCO?
It was founded in Egypt in 1928.
What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
An American group that interviewed people in the Eastern Mediterranean about their preferred system of governance after World War I.
What is the King-Crane Commission?
His death may have sparked the Great Revolt in Palestine.
Who is Izz al-Din al-Qassam?
It was one of the bloodiest wars of the 20th century, lasting for eight years.
What is the Iran-Iraq war?
A political formation that is often seen as the highpoint of Arab Nationalism and Pan-Arabism.
What is the UAR?
A religious movement that the Saudi government uses as part of its political legitimation.
What is Wahhabism?
It recommended partition of Palestine in 1937.
What is the Peel Commission?
He represents Ghassan Kanafani's generation of Palestinians in Men in the Sun.
Who is Assad?
It outlined a policy of preemptive war.
What is the Bush Doctrine?
An armed political movement that emerged during the First Intifada.
What is Hamas?
A part of the PLO, Ghassan Kanafani was its spokesperson.
What is the PFLP?
It means "opening up" in Arabic.
What is infitah?