Egypt
Women Writers
Environment
Geography
MENA Cities
100

This minority religion has coexisted with Sunni Islam since the Arab Conquest. 

What is Coptic Orthodox Christianity? 

100

This woman was a psychiatrist, an activist, and a writer. 

Who is Nawal el Sadaawi? 

100

This limited resource is often used as a weapon in international disputes. 

What is water?

100

This desert is in North Africa. 

What is the Sahara? 

100

Once divided, Israel gained complete control over this city in 1967.

What is Jerusalem?

200

This half of Egypt lies to the south. 

What is Upper Egypt? 

200
The author of a novel about women in an Egyptian prison. 

Who is Salwa Bakr? 

200

These people live and work in the garbage dumps of Cairo. 

Who are the Zabbaleen? 

200

The United Arab Emirates are located on this geographical feature. 

What is the Arabian Peninsula?

200
This city was once called the Paris of the Middle East. 

What is Beirut? 

300

The Nile Delta is in this region of Egypt. 

What is Lower Egypt?

300

This writer left during the Iranian Revolution and now lives in Paris. 

Who is Goli Taraghi? 

300

The dominant kind of trash or waste throughout MENA. 

What is construction waste? 

300

Name one of three major river systems in MENA? 

What is the Nile?

What is the Tigris/Euphrates?

What is the Jordan River? 

300

This city is rumored to contain the tomb of Alexander the Great. 

What is Alexandria, Egypt? 

400

The Arab Spring in Egypt resulted in the removal of this former president of Egypt. 

Who is Hosni Mubarak? 

400

This writer, dedicated to both feminist and queer literature, died way too young in Morocco.

Who is Malika Moustradraf?

400

A serious environmental problem in North Africa (that is NOT waste disposal). 

What is desertification? 

400

MENA nations are found on these two continents. 

What are Africa and Asia? 

400

The largest city in the MENA region. 

What is Cairo, Egypt?

500

This president of Egypt won a Nobel Prize for his peace agreement with Menachem Begin of Israel. 

Who is Anwar Sadat? 

500

This MENA author had connections to the Francophone studies program at LSU.

Who is Assia Djebar?

500

While there are no significant rivers in the desert in Libya, water can be found in these places. 

What is an oasis? 

500

All of the African MENA nations have a coast on this body of water.

What is the Mediterranean Sea? 

500

This city featured in many of the Harun al-Rashid stories in One Thousand and One Nights. 

What is Baghdad?