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INDEX
Abbas, Mahmoud
Abbas, Wael
Abbasid dynasty
Abdi, Abbas
Abdullah, king of Saudi Arabia
Abdullah, Samir
Abdullah II, king of Jordan
Abraham
Abtahi, Mohammed
Afghanistan
Aflaq, Michel
African Union
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
British hostages and
clothing of
at Council on Foreign Relations
on democracy
education of
election of, reasons for
foreign policy of
on Iraq
as mayor of Tehran
nuclear program and
policies of
United Nations address of
Aisha
Al-Ahram
Al-Akhbar
Alawites
Al Azhar
Alehi, Ali
Aleppo, University of
Algeria
al Ghad. See Tomorrow Party
al Hayat
Ali
Ali, Sawsan
al Jazeera
Allawi, Ali
Allawi, Ayad
Al-Masri al Youm. See Egyptian Today, The
Alouite dynasty
al Qaeda
Hamas and
Hezbollah and
Hezbollah and, comparison between
in Iraq
Nasrallah on
Qutb’s influence on
Al-Quds al Arabi
Amal
Amam
Amara, Abdelkader
American intervention in Iraq. See Iraq war/U.S. intervention in Iraq
American University of Beirut
Amin, Nasser
Amin, Qasim
Amnesty International
Anderson, Terry
Andraos, Asma-Maria
An Nahar
Annan, Kofi
Ansari, Anousheh
Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession
Arab Feminist Union
Arabism
Arab-Israeli conflict
Egypt and
Hamas and
Hezbollah and
Lebanon and
Morocco and
wars. See specific wars
Arab League
Arafat, Yasser
death and burial of
Hamas and
loss of power of
Muslim Brotherhood and
Palestinian Authority and
Qaddafi and
Argentina
Aron, Michel
Asgharzadeh, Ibrahim
Ashmawy, Said el
Ashura
Assad, Bashar al
Assad, Basil al
Assad, Hafez al
coup of
death of
early public works of
family background of
Middle East agenda of
omnipresence of
underhanded theatrics of
women prisoners and
Assad, Maher al
Assad, Rifaat
Atassi, Mohammed Ali
Atassi, Nureddin al
Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal
Atta, Mohammed
Avicenna
Ayalon, Daniel
Azima, Parnaz
Aziz, Zakaria Abdel
Azziz, Tariq
Baalbek, Lebanon
Baalbek Festival
Baath Party, Iraqi
Baath Party, Syrian
Baath Pioneers
Badreddin, Mustafa
Baghdad
Baheyya
Bahrain
Bani-Sadr, Abolhassam
Banna, Hassan al
Banquet for Seaweed
Barak, Ehud
Barghouti, Marwan
Barmada, Shahed
Barzani, Masoud
Barzani, Mustafa
Bastawisi, Hesham
Bayanouni, Ali Sadreddine
Baz, Osama al
Bedouins
Begin, Menachem
Behesht-e Zahra
Being Arab (Kassir)
Beirut
Beirut Center for Research & Information
Bekaa Valley
ben Saleek, Ahmed
Benzekri, Driss
Berbers
Berg, Nicholas
Berri, Nabih
Bethlehem
Bible
bin Khalifa al Thani, Hamad
bin Laden, Osama
Hamas and
Nasrallah on
on 1982 war
use of media by
Birzeit University
Black Wednesday (Egypt)
>
blogs and bloggers
Boroujerdi, Hosein Kazemaini
Bremmer, L. Paul, III
Buckley, William
Bunni, Anwar al
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Cairo
Cairo Declaration
Cairo Times
Cairo University
caliphate
Call, the. See Dawa
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
censorship in Egypt
in Iran
in Lebanon
Center for Legal Research and Studies
Center Party (Egypt)
Center Party (Jordan)
Center for Protecting Human Rights, (Iran) 320 Central Command
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
chemical weapons, Iraqi
change. See political change/transition
Chile
China model
Chirac, Jacques
Christians
Egyptian
Hamas and
Hezbollah and
Lebanese
Palestinian
Syrian
Citadel
City of the Dead
clerics, Iranian
clothing of
derision of
disagreements among
Iraq war and
clothing
Ahmadinejad’s
clerical
in Iran
Lebanese
Syrian
women’s
Coalition Provisional Authority
Code of Hammurabi
Cold War
Committee of the Cultural Revolution (Iran)
communism
Communist Party, Lebanese
Communist Party, Syrian
constitutions
Iran’s