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This 5 page paper considers the situation in the Middle East at the end of World War I. It also discusses the PBS presentation of the film Islam: Empire of Faith. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Intervention in the Middle East and Empire of Faith Research
Compiled by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction The violence in the Middle East has made
it and its faith-the overwhelming number of Middle Easterners are Muslim-a center of world attention for decades. This paper discusses two separate but related subjects. First, the way in which
the European powers "carved up" the Middle East during and after the First World War, and how this led to tensions in the region. The second subject is the PBS
series Islam: Empire of Faith; the paper is a critical response to the broadcasts. Discussion Davis argues that the situation in the Middle East with regard to Britain must be
understood in the larger context of Britains role in the international community. Instead of thinking of it as merely an island nation existing in "splendid isolation, it makes better sense
to accept that it has been both a European and a global actor and that it has played these roles simultaneously" (2010, p. 1). It has overlapping interests, both as
a singular power and as a member of the European community; one of the "most obvious examples" of this is in the Anglo-French entanglements in the Middle East in the
early 20th century (Davis, 2010, p. 2). Although the Middle East was never part of the British Empire, the region was nevertheless of "vital interest" to Britain, particularly as
the Turkish influence waned (Davis, 2010, p. 3). The Suez Canal, built during the period 1859-1869, "opened up a new and strategically vital route to the Empire in the East,"
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