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The Middle East 1900-1930s

Time Line of Art History:

 

West Asia, 1900 C.E. - Present

South and Southeast, 1900 C.E. - Present

Europe, 1900 C.E - Present

 

 

Maps:

 

Turkey, 1924

Europe, 1919 to 1938

Israel and Environs to 1950

The Middle East, 2000 C.E.

Afghanistan 2000 C.E.

 

 

Readings:

 

Turkey and Islam, 1900 to 1930

Occupation, nationalism, reform and secularism

 

Empire in Egypt and Sudan

Britain in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood

 

Palestine and Britain to 1939

Jews and Muslims under British rule

 

Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, to 1930

The British, French and Greater Syria frustrations

 

Ibn Saud, Wahhabis and Oil, 1900-45

Ibn Saud creates and expands his kingdom, allied with the British

 

Afganistan, to the 1930s

---and beyond

 

 

 

Additional Links:

 

BBC News:

Islam in Turkey: Odd one out

 

PBS: Frontline

Portraits of Ordinary Muslims-Turkey

 

DiscovertheNetorks.Org:

The Muslim Brotherhood

 

Department for Jewish Zionist Education:

The Arab-Jewish Struggle

 

PBS Frontline:

Analysis Wahhabism

 

AfghanGovernment.com:

A Brief History of Afghanistan

 

BBC News:

Afghanistan's Turbulent History

 

 

 

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