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Middle East Today
4y ago
North Africa and the Middle East consist of four political powers.
1. The Arab World let by Egypt with its population occupying North Africa and most of the Middle East.
2. Iran with its population located along the western shores of the Red Sea.
3. Turkey with its population located along the northern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian Iraqi borders.
4. Turkey with its population located along the northern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian Iraqi borders.
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Middle East Today
5y ago
The Negative Impact of Delaying Decision to Fight Covid 19 in the USA
The pandemic Corona virus that began in Wuhan, China. During the winter of 2019 spread to the rest of the world.
The Chinese government immediately imposed strict rules and required people to stay at homes, shut down all industries, and prevented all inside and outside travels. It was a successful policy that ended the spread of the virus.
There was 81,000 stricken people and 3,000 death cases.
The virus, however, was rapidly spread globally and specially in Europe causing a large number of people being infected by t ..read more
Middle East Today
5y ago
The Egyptian Census Department has recently issued a report about population. It stated that if the birth rated continues at the present rate 3%/per year, Egypt will reach 191.3 million people by 2052. The negative impact will be on the country’s economy.
The Census Report mentions the need for the development of the educational system. For instance, the government needs to build 27,000 elementary schools, 12,000 junior high schools, and 4000 secondary schools. Accordingly, it will need 27 million staff members including new teachers. It will also have to increase the nu ..read more
Middle East Today
5y ago
Hostilities between Iraq and Iran go back many years. Since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the political situation between Iraq and Iran changed significantly. This happens with the help[ of the US, the rise of ISIS as well as the rise of sectarianism. All of this led to the development of Iranian influence over Iraq.
The Iranian strategy is the creation of the Shi’i crescent as it was stated by top Iranian political leadership.
As of 1/5/2020, the Iranian government created an open road from Iran to the Mediterranean through Iraq and Syria.
The strategy was implement ..read more
Middle East Today
5y ago
During the early part of 2019, several mass protest movements started in Sudan and Algeria. The protest ended successfully in Sudan. It led to the removal of the corrupt regime of Omar al Bashir. Presently, he is being tried for corruption.
At the same time the second protest began in Algeria. The demand was the removal of the corrupt President Bou Teflika who was running for a fifth time. He consequently resigned, his cabinet resigned as well as several high officials including the president’s brother. They are being investigated for corruption.
The protesters are still ..read more
Middle East Today
5y ago
President El Sessi's Achiements
Egypt celebrated its 6th National Revolution of June 30, 2014 that led to the removal of the late president Morsi.
The revolution led to the creation of a new agenda of economic growth and development.
It will be difficult to provide a complete survey of what has been accomplished under President El Sessi, since 2014.
I would like to begin this post by saying that President El Sessi is God gift to Egypt. This statement might be sarcastically viewed by some. But, one cannot deny the President’s accomplishment during the past five years. It is a fact recog ..read more
Middle East Today
5y ago
Egypt celebrated its 6th National Revolution of June 30, 2014 that led to the removal of the late president Morsi.
The revolution led to the creation of a new agenda of economic growth and development.
It will be difficult to provide a complete survey of what has been accomplished under President El Sessi, since 2014.
I would like to begin this post by saying that President El Sessi is God gift to Egypt. This statement might be sarcastically viewed by some. But, one cannot deny the President’s accomplishment during the past five years. It is a fact recognized worldwide.
The director of t ..read more
Middle East Today
5y ago
The bread uprising that lasted for nearly eight months (2019) led to the removal of president Al Bashir, and the creation of a new military council to run government affairs,
With this change a new political era began in Sudan.
The main reasons behind such political changes is attributes to the shortages of bread in public bakeries as well as to government corruption.
Sudan is well known for its fertile agricultural land which has been estimated to be between 200 -250 million feddans. In spite of that the Sudanese government imported wheat from abroad.
During the las ..read more
Middle East Today
6y ago
Egypt’s celebrated its 6th National Revolution of June 30, 2014 which led to the removal of the late president Morsi.This Revolution let to the creation of a new agenda of economic growth and development.I will be very difficult to provide a complete survey of what has been accomplished since 2014, under President El Sessi.I would like to begin this post by saying that President El Sessi is “God Gift to Egypt.” This statement might be sarcastically viewed by some.But, no one can deny the President’s accomplishment during the past five years. It is a fact recognized world-wide.I will summariz ..read more