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...conflicts which torment the international community nearly a century later. Most importantly, Andelman contends that the Treaty’s oversight of a number of issues in the Middle East—namely their failure to understand the entrenched antagonisms between Shi’ites and Sunni and between Bedouin Arabs and Palestinians—has contributed to the modern-day plagues of terrorism and conflicts ranging from the Iranian Revolution to the Iraq war. But accounts like Andelman’s lead one to wonder how examining the past can help us to move forward in the future. While...
...over Lebanon's coastal mountain range may be well known as a hotbed of Shi'ite militancy that has at various times hosted some of the world's most notorious terrorists, but it is also home to Lebanon's wine industry. It's a very Lebanese experience to watch Bedouin farm workers in the early morning light that illuminates distant mosques, as they carry crateloads of grapes to be pressed into a liquid that Islamic law forbids them, and most of their neighbors, from consuming. Alcohol production might seem incongruous in the overwhelmingly Muslim Middle East, but viniculture...
...Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, would appreciate Sang's relentless sense of purpose. Under the leadership of the Sheik, who told developer Emaar Properties to go for 160 stories rather than the planned 90, this former backwater of Bedouin and Persian Gulf traders is rapidly being transformed into the Middle East's Hong Kong - a glitzy global hub for doing business, having fun and ... well, constructing a lot of tall buildings...
...triumph for Israel. Within hours of its start, the Egyptian air force had been destroyed in pre-emptive air strikes. Israeli troops sliced through Egyptian defenses in the Sinai Peninsula, moved against the Syrians in the Golan Heights and outflanked King Hussein's Bedouin army in the West Bank. In 132 hours, it was all over. Israel had more than tripled its territory, its forces moving into ancient Jerusalem, fulfilling the age-old quest of the Jews to return to their holy city. The war changed mental maps in the Middle East as much as it did the political landscape...
Dubai lures visitors not only with its year-round sunshine and superlatives - a "seven-star" hotel, the biggest theme park - but also its over-the-top luxury. Heck, even living like a bedouin can be a deluxe experience. Al Maha is set in the 225-sq-km Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve - 5% of the emirate's total land area - and is designed to resemble a bedouin camp. Endangered Arabian oryx (al maha in Arabic), desert foxes and gazelle meander around the grounds and, if you're lucky, quench their thirst in your own private pool. The spa and airy suites...