Religion
Forms the major population in all the countries of Southwest Asia and North Africa, except Israel, today.
Who are Muslims?
The amount of people who live in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
What is 550 million?
Qatar hosted this popular sporting event in 2022.
What is the FIFA World Cup?
The year Algeria broke from France and became independent.
What is 1962?
The richest countries of Southwest Asia and North Africa owe their wealth to this resource.
What are oil reserves?
A book of teachings received by Muhhamed from Allah.
What is Quaran?
An ecologically diverse zone stretching from the Levant inland through the fertile hill country of northern Syria into Iraq.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Ancient Middle Eastern food, filled with some combinations of ground chickpeas and fava beans, stuffed in a pita, that is becoming popular worldwide.
What is falafel?
Regional polititical and economic organizations focused on Arab unity and development
What is the Arab League?
Until recently, women in this country were permitted to drive.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Two major Islamic groups split after the death of Muhammad in 632 CE.
Who are the Shiites and Sunnis?
The original urban core of a traditional Islamic city.
What is medina?
Islam's religious-based dietary preferences.
What is halal?
These two nations split in 2011, but tensions remain, especially focused on an oil-rich and contested border zone between the two countries.
What are Sudan and South Sudan?
Many Muslim women wear this fully-body veil.
What is Chador?
Religious pilgrimage to Muhammad's birthplace of Makkah.
What is Hajj?
Investment in these industries has fueled the creation of new urban centers.
What is petrochemical?
Salafi-jihadist group that has forbidden their members from using any online communications due to its ability to locate their whereabouts.
Who is ISIS?
Nation that Israel has conflict with that has resulted in wars.
What is Palestine?
International organization formed in 1960 that attempts to influence the global prices and supplies of oil.
What is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries?
City where the United States moved its embassy to in 2018.
What is Jerusalem?
Half of the country's population has been displaced because of this war.
What is the Syrian Civil War?
Saudi Arabia's young leader has endorsed a more modern Saudi Arabia, packaging many of his ideas in the nation's "Vision 2030" plan.
Who is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman?
Term for a quasi-governmental body that represents Palestinian interests in the West Bank and Gaza.
What is the Palestinian Authority?
A term that describes many of the brightest young people leaving this region for better jobs in western Europe or the United States.
What is brain drain?