Post on 30-Dec-2015
Theocratic Governments
• Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Algeria
You tell me the story of Women’s rights in the Middle East.
Russian Vs Taliban Rule
Which one is grandmother?
Kabul StadiumPublic Execution: Adulteress
Gender Roles
• Saudi Arabia- pertaining to women– Women need a male relative to escort to
supermarket– No allowed to enter parliament– NO media attention
• Iran– Chador- covering for women
The Story of Men
Shiite celebration of Ashura self-flagellation. Ashura is a ten day mourning of the martyrdom of Mohammed’s grandson Hussein.
Male sports- can identify religion? Ethnicity, language?
Mesopotamia
The “land between the rivers” Home to
Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea Empires
Fertile soil = easy crops
Rivers = easy trade
Abraham was born here!
Kurds- Kurdistan- a stateless nation
Who are the Kurds?
Ethnic group that has occupied “Kurdistan” for 1000s of years
Kurdistan = Iran, Iraq, Turkey
Stateless Nation – people without a land to legally occupy
Kurds resist control of countries they inhabit
Oasis
Dates- Date Palm Tree
How could a city in the middle of a desert support a large population?
Bedouins- use the pics to tell me about them.
That’s a woman
Bedouins
Traditional culture
Nomadic
Fighters/Warriors
Strong Family Ties
Spread Islam
Mix of Traditional and Modern way of life
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Goals:
- coordinate policies on selling petroleum products
- help member countries control worldwide oil prices
Members:
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, UAE
(our personal neighbor Mexico and Venezuela)
OPEC
Why is Oil so important to Middle East?
Money from this export is being used to build a more diverse economy
Modernizing Infrastructure
– Roads,desalinization, irrigation, airports, malls, IT
Developing Other Resources
– Agriculture (arid region)- building dams/wells
– Developing water sources
– Minerals
Human Resources (skills and talents of people)
– education/technology training
Suez Canaloasis, irrigation, man-made
modification, adaptation
What does the Suez Canal connect?
Drip Irrigation-
This is a sugar beet farm in Turkey
Desalinization Plants
The removal of salt from ocean water
- expensive
-can't produce enough water to meet needs
How has desalinization capacity changed since 1960?
Pirates –
Which picture above shows a Somalian pirate who plague the Arabian Sea?
-Funded by terrorist groups-Somalia is poor – Taliban can infiltrate (extension of terrorism)-High jacking oil tankers
Languages of the Middle East
Who speaks Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, and Farsi?
What do you call the Islamic fundamentalist group in
Afghanistan?
Moors- remember them? They were a mix of Berber and N. Africa Muslim people who invaded Spain
around 700?and ruled till 1492. Extra credit: show the cultural
diffusion evidence of this time in today’s world. Gotta look… you’re
on your own.