Middle East and North Africa on File
- List Price: $185.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Facts on File
- Publish date: 05/01/1995
-- Instructors can use the pages for handouts, overheads, posters, and testing.
-- Students can use them as quick sources of information, to reference curriculum topics, or to supplement their essays and reports.
-- On Files "TM" are available in either binder or electronic format.
This volume offers an interdisciplinary portrait of both the human and physical geography of the Middle East and North Africa. It contains hard-to-find maps and charts of such areas as the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The "Contemporary Regional Issues" section features:
-- Boundary disputes
-- Shatt al Arab
-- Berbers
-- Kurds
-- Nomads
-- Palestinians
-- Israel and its Arab neighbors
-- Israel and the Palestinians
-- Immigration to Israel
-- Sharia
-- Suffrage
-- Languages
-- Literacy
-- Precipitation
-- Temperature
-- Water use
-- Petroleum reserves
-- Organization of the Arab petroleum exporting countries
-- Oil and gas
-- Wealth and poverty in the Mideast -- GNP per capita
-- Expatriate labor in the Gulf States
-- Labor emigration
-- Strait of Hormuz
-- Jerusalem.
