Egypt
This minority religion has coexisted with Sunni Islam since the Arab Conquest.
What is Coptic Orthodox Christianity?
This woman was a psychiatrist, an activist, and a writer.
Who is Nawal el Sadaawi?
This limited resource is often used as a weapon in international disputes.
What is water?
This desert is in North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
Once divided, Israel gained complete control over this city in 1967.
What is Jerusalem?
This half of Egypt lies to the south.
What is Upper Egypt?
Who is Salwa Bakr?
These people live and work in the garbage dumps of Cairo.
Who are the Zabbaleen?
The United Arab Emirates are located on this geographical feature.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
What is Beirut?
The Nile Delta is in this region of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
This writer left during the Iranian Revolution and now lives in Paris.
Who is Goli Taraghi?
The dominant kind of trash or waste throughout MENA.
What is construction waste?
Name one of three major river systems in MENA?
What is the Nile?
What is the Tigris/Euphrates?
What is the Jordan River?
This city is rumored to contain the tomb of Alexander the Great.
What is Alexandria, Egypt?
The Arab Spring in Egypt resulted in the removal of this former president of Egypt.
Who is Hosni Mubarak?
This writer, dedicated to both feminist and queer literature, died way too young in Morocco.
Who is Malika Moustradraf?
A serious environmental problem in North Africa (that is NOT waste disposal).
What is desertification?
MENA nations are found on these two continents.
What are Africa and Asia?
The largest city in the MENA region.
What is Cairo, Egypt?
This president of Egypt won a Nobel Prize for his peace agreement with Menachem Begin of Israel.
Who is Anwar Sadat?
This MENA author had connections to the Francophone studies program at LSU.
Who is Assia Djebar?
While there are no significant rivers in the desert in Libya, water can be found in these places.
What is an oasis?
All of the African MENA nations have a coast on this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This city featured in many of the Harun al-Rashid stories in One Thousand and One Nights.
What is Baghdad?