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The **Middle East** spans southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries.

Wiki
Dubai Egypt Iraq Israel Jordan kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestine Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates Yemen

Flickr Groups
[|Birds of Egypt and the Middle East] [|Egypt photographers] [|Libya] [|Middle East]

Blogs
[|Quite Alone] [|Pomegranate]

Cities
[|Abu_Dhabi]

Events
[|middle east events]

Tourism Portals
[|Dubai Tourism]

Twitter [|@DavidKenner] [|@greenprophet]

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Wikipedia
[|Imagined_geographies]

Headlines
[|dubais-wild-wadi-waterpark-is-green-globe-certified] - [|@greenprophet]

Listening
[|Drawing a line in the sand: The Sykes-Picot Agreement] - A hundred years ago Britain and France signed a secret deal carving up the Middle East. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/features/the-middle-east-brief

Elsewhere on the Web
[|Lonely Planet]  [|Middle East - BBC]  [|Middle East - CNN]  [|CNN Arabic]  [|Middle East - Wikipedia]  [|Regions of the Middle East - Wikipedia] http://www.greenprophet.com - [|@greenprophet] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com http://www.arabnews.com - https://twitter.com/arab_news

Transitions Abroad
[|Hospitality in the Middle East]  [|Travel to the Middle East]  [|International Careers and Jobs in the Middle East]

Editing
[|Mideast]

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[|Regions of the Middle East - Wikipedia]
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 * [|Near East], or [|Levant]
 * [|Lebanon]
 * [|Palestine]
 * [|Syria]
 * [|Jordan]
 * [|Iraq]
 * [|Israel]
 * [|Bilad al-Sham](Historical)
 * [|Palestine]
 * [|Lebanon]
 * [|Syria]
 * [|Jordan]
 * [|Greater Syria](Historical)
 * [|Lebanon]
 * [|Syria]
 * Often parts of [|Jordan] and [|Palestine]
 * [|Arabia] or [|Arabian Peninsula]
 * [|Saudi Arabia]
 * [|Kuwait]
 * [|Bahrain]
 * [|Qatar]
 * [|United Arab Emirates]
 * [|Oman]
 * [|Yemen]
 * [|Persian Gulf States]
 * [|Iran] ([|Persia])

Sometimes considered Middle Eastern
<span style="color: #859030; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"> [|Ras al-Khaimah] is one of the Persian Gulf Arab sheikhdoms forming the United Arab Emirates. Its name means "Top of the Tent". The emirate is in the northern part of the UAE, bordering Oman's exclave of Musandam. It covers an area of 1,684 square km. [|Wikipedia]
 * [|Anatolia]
 * [|Turkey]
 * [|North Africa]
 * [|Egypt]
 * [|Northeast Africa]
 * [|Djibouti]
 * [|Eritrea]
 * [|Somalia]
 * [|Sudan]
 * [|Caucasus]
 * [|Azerbaijan]
 * [|Georgia]
 * [|Armenia]
 * [|Mediterranean Sea]
 * [|Cyprus]
 * The [|Maghreb]
 * [|Morocco]
 * [|Western Sahara] ([|SADR])
 * [|Algeria]
 * [|Tunisia]
 * [|Libya]
 * [|Mauritania]
 * [|Central Asia]
 * [|Afghanistan]
 * [|Pakistan]
 * [|Turkmenistan]
 * [|Uzbekistan]
 * [|Tajikistan]
 * [|Persian plateau]
 * [|Afghanistan]
 * [|Pakistan]