North Africa and Southwest Asia

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North Africa and Southwest Asia
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The Suez Canal
How many miles shorter is it to go through the
Suez Canal when traveling from Spain to the
Indian Ocean than going around Africa?
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Satellite view of the Suez Canal. This Canal does
not use locks since the sea level is the same.
Ships pass each other by waiting in the lakes.
The Canal is 118 miles long.
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Scenes from the Suez canal looking east.
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Scenes from the Suez canal looking west.
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Scenes from the Suez canal looking south.
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The traffic in the canal is one way. Ships must
wait in the lakes for their time to move through
the canal.
 
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The most important product in the region is oil.
The graphic below shows the shipping lanes for
oil products in the region.
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Largest desert in the world is the Sahara Desert
in Africa
 
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Largest desert in the world is the Sahara Desert
in Africa
 
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The most precious resource in the region and the
resource that is the scarcest is water. In Saudi
Arabia, the government desalinates the salt
water. To desalinate means to remove the salt
from the sea water.
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Oases- a place in the desert where water can be
found. The water comes from underground springs.
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Wadi dry riverbeds that only contain water during
the seasonal rains.
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The Bosporus
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Scenes of Istanbul with a mosque in the background
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Egypt
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The sphinx in front of the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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Satellite view if the region. Notice the Nile
river delta.
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Close-up of the delta. This is the most
productive farm land in Egypt.
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Aswan High DamThe dam was built to stop the
annual flooding of the Nile River
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Satellite view of Aswan High Dam
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Location of the Dam
Lake Nasser was created when the dam was built.
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Bedouins are nomads who live in the desert and
herd animals.
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This is a photograph of a Bedouin camp. The tents
are made from woven goat hair.
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A few Bedouins are wealthy. The are sheiks and
live in much more elaborate tents. Notice the
rug.
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Inside a Bedouin tent
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A Bedouin Sheik inside his tent.
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Women weaving rugs
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Example of a finished oriental rug.
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More Faces
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People shop in suqs (souks) or Bazaars.
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Souks (suqs) are outdoor markets.
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Womens rights

• Women in Muslim nations have very few rights.
  They must dress in the style dictated by the
  government.

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Hijab
The word hijab means to cover or screen in
classical Arabic. American Muslims use the word
to refer to the variety of styles in which Muslim
women use scarves and large pieces of cloth to
cover their hair, neck and sometimes shoulders.
In the Middle East, however, the word hijab has a
more specific meaning, referring to the tight
white headscarves favored by a younger generation
of Islamist women.
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Nikab
Many Pakistani Muslims wear some form of veil.
This woman is wearing the nikab along with a
bandana that reads, "God is great!" The veil
existed before Islam existed, but it has been
embraced and spread by the religion. Not all
Muslim women wear a veil, but among those who do,
styles vary wildly, from kerchiefs and elaborate
head scarves to full face-and-body coverings
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The Chador
The Chador is the full-body cloak Muslim women in
Iran are expected to wear outdoors. Depending on
how it is designed and on how the woman holds it,
the chador may or may not cover the face. The
chador was forbidden in Iran under the reign of
Mohammad Reza Shah, who was brought to power with
help from the United States and sought to
modernize the country. After the shah was exiled
during the Islamic Revolution in 1979, the chador
became required wear for all Iranian women. Many
Iranians today subvert their dress code by
wearing Western-style clothing beneath the
chador.
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Nikab
The nikab is the form of Muslim veiling that
comes closest to what is actually meant by the
English word "veil." English speakers tend to use
the word veil as a catch-all term that covers all
types of Muslim head and body coverings. The
nikab, worn in black by this Moroccan woman, is a
veil in the true sense of the word. It covers
everything below the bridge of the nose and the
upper cheeks, and sometimes also covers the
forehead
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Walled city in Southwest Asia
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Walled city in North Africa
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Oil is the most important economic resource
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Oil fires in the Middle East