The makers of the modern Middle East roped together peoples of different ethnicities and faiths (or streams of the same faith) in what were meant to be modern, multicultural, and multi ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.

More on: Middle East and North Africa This publication is now archived.What is the "road map?"A U.S.-backed peace proposal first floated in 2002, the road map sets a series of bench… ...

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million has been published by the Royal Geographical Society on behalf of the British Council. The map is drawn on Murdoch's third conical ...

With its convoluted history and ever-shifting borders, the Middle East isn’t an area that can be easily understood through words alone. Vox’s Max Fisher recognized this and compiled a treasure ...

The above map from Morgan Stanley illustrates why Iraq is crucial to the Middle East amid flaring sectarian tensions. Iran is 91% Shia, Iraq is 66% Shia, Syria is 16% Shia, and Lebanon is 30% Shia.

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With tensions continuing to escalate in the Middle East, the United States government has now warned its citizens not to travel to Lebanon. The crisis in the region has been intensifying since the ...

THIS wall-map includes the empires of Babylon, Persia, Parthia, Egypt, and Rome. It shows the routes of Alexander the Great, Pompey, and St. Paul, and illustrates classical history from the ...

A map of U.S. State Department travel warnings for the Middle East shows Americans being advised to steer clear of many of the region's countries or to show extra caution, with Iran and Israel at ...

The Issue: A map in a classroom in Brooklyn that showed Israel labeled as “Palestine.” Just consider: A map of the Middle East with Israel erased (“DOE map zap,” Jan. 14). It really ...