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Alabina

Alabina is a French-based group that performs a mix of world music: Middle Eastern, Arabic, French, Hebrew, and Spanish Gypsy music.

Alabina's music mixes many styles, cultures, and languages: Middle Eastern, Spanish music, French, raï, flamenco, gypsy, Arabic, and at times, Western pop.

Bawabet Dimashq

The restaurant has features such as waterfalls, fountains and replicas of archaeological ruins of Syria, and six culinary themed sections for Indian, Chinese, Arab, Iranian, Middle Eastern and Syrian Cuisine.

Diwan-khane

In tribal Middle Eastern, Arab, Persian, and Kurdish societies, a guest house of the tribal chieftain is used mostly for discussing tribal affairs.

Human Race Machine

The Human Race Machine program allows participants to see themselves with the facial characteristics of six different races: Asian, White, African, Middle Eastern, and Indian, mapped onto their own face.


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Amira Bennison

Dr Amira K. Bennison, a.k.a. Kate Bennison, is a historian of the Middle East, currently senior lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in the University of Cambridge and fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Arab Communist Organization

The group focused mainly on bomb attacks and extortion attempts targeting American and British civilian and economic interests in Lebanon, at times claiming that its actions were either carried out in protest for US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's 1974 diplomatic Middle Eastern Tour or to force British-owned Lebanese companies to distribute freely large amounts of food to impoverished local families.

Arthur Upham Pope

By 1927 he and Phyllis returned to San Francisco and pursued additional design projects, including an ornate Persian-palace-style interior for the penthouse of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco and the interior of the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, where they made extensive use of Middle Eastern kilims as well as Native American artifacts.

Ayad Rahim

He has written extensively on Middle Eastern affairs, including a series of articles on the Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents with co-author Laurie Mylroie.

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago

M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies/Masters in Business Administration - in conjunction with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business

M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies/Masters in Public Policy - offered with the Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago

Crime in Germany

Especially in cities such as Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen Middle Eastern clans are highly active in the trafficking of heroin as well as being involved in the bouncer-scene.

D-Force

It involves an Apache helicopter set on defeating an evil Middle Eastern dictator.

David Shepherd Nivison

Key to the Chronology of the Three Dynasties: The "Modern Text" Bamboo Annals, Philadelphia: Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

Eastline Marketing

Eastline has developed campaigns for Middle Eastern and global brands such as Toyota, AZADEA Group, DHL, Kimberly-Clark, Bank Audi, Fransabank, Henkel, Avis, AXA Insurance, Marks & Spencer, JoueClub, and Waterfront City.

Elie Rekhess

He is also on the faculty of its Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University.

Étiemble

Étiemble (René Ernest Joseph Eugène Étiemble, Chinese name:安田樸), born 26 January 1909, Mayenne, Mayenne, died 7 January 2002, Vigny) was an essayist, scholar, novelist, and promoter of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures.

Genetic studies on Jews

In 2012, a genetic study carried out under the leadership of Harry Ostrer, from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that North African Jews are genetically closer to European and Middle Eastern Jews than to their long term host population.

Ghana Empire

French colonial officials, notably Maurice Delafosse, concluded that Ghana had been founded by the Berbers, a nomadic group origination from the Benu River, from Middle Africa, and linked them to North African and Middle Eastern origins.

Goodyear Blimp

In 1976, Goodyear allowed use of its blimps for the filming of Black Sunday, based on the novel by Thomas Harris, about a distressed former prisoner of war blimp pilot who helps Middle Eastern terrorists attack the Super Bowl with a lethal device attached to the airship's car.

Hasan Tawfiq

It derives from a well-known Middle Eastern tragic love story, Majnun and Layla.

Hawazma tribe

These stories correspond well with the presence of scores of Hawazma in Kosti, Middle Sudan, Um Rowaba, Eastern part of Kordofan and Al Rahad, middle-eastern part of Kordofan.

Hematuria

Urinary Schistosomiasis (caused by Schistosoma haematobium) - a major cause for hematuria in many African and Middle-Eastern countries;

Immaculate Flight

According to an interview with President/Owner Brett Logan, current and former clientele have included a diverse range of local General Aviation flyers, corporate flight departments including executives from Pfizer and SAP, as well as royal family members of Middle Eastern kingdoms.

Ira M. Lapidus

As an undergraduate at Harvard, he took a course in Middle Eastern history taught by Sir Hamilton Gibb.

Jahangir-Khan Sur-e-Esrafil

Mangol Bayat, Iran’s First Revolution: Shi’ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905–1909, Studies in Middle Eastern History, 336 p. (Oxford University Press, 1991).

James E. Akins

In an influential article in the journal Foreign Affairs in April 1973, Akins correctly predicted that world oil consumption for the next 12 years would exceed that of all previous human history, and warned that the loss of production from any two Middle Eastern countries would push prices from $3 a barrel to more than $5.

Karim Nagi

He focused in Middle Eastern instruments like the Tabla, the Riqq, and the Sagat (finger cymbals).

Khazar University Department of Eastern Languages and Religions Studies

The Department also includes studying religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam (as Middle Eastern traditions) and Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Jainism, Shinto, Taoism (as South and East Asian traditions) which appeared in the motherland of these Middle Eastern and Far Eastern languages and turned to be an important part of the world’s civilization.

La Compagnia della Forca

The text, instead, is a strange delirium that mixed Max Bunker's style, Tolkien, medieval history, classical Northern European and Middle Eastern tradition, and personal travels (for example, Magnus' travel to Croatia with his wife).

Levantine cuisine

Sami Zubaida, "National, Communal and Global Dimensions in Middle Eastern Food Cultures" in Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper, A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East, London and New York, 1994 and 2000, ISBN 1-86064-603-4, p. 35.

Lunar month

In Middle-Eastern and European traditions, the month starts when the young crescent moon becomes first visible at evening after conjunction with the Sun one or two days before that evening (e.g., in the Islamic calendar).

Mido Hamada

Hamada has also appeared in the Fox series 24 as Samir Mehran, a rogue intelligence agent from the fictional Middle Eastern country of Kamistan who assassinates its president Omar Hassan (Anil Kapoor).

Negin Farsad

In 2008, Queen Rania of Jordan commissioned a video from Farsad as part of a web series to combat Middle Eastern stereotypes – this series later won the first ever YouTube Visionary Award.

Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems

If the book combines complexity theory following lines of thought at the Santa Fe Institute with a contribution to understanding of Middle Eastern social structure, it is through combining network visualization and analysis with the study of the dynamics of marriage choices.

Northern Tier

During the Cold War, in England and the U.S., it refers to the Four Middle Eastern members of the Central Treaty Organization: Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan.

Oriental studies

In 2007 the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge University was renamed the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, but Oxford still has its Faculty for Oriental Studies, as do Chicago, Rome, London (covering African studies also), and other universities.

Plashet School

The majority of the students come from an Asian background, such as Bengalis Gujaratis and Pakistanis, as well as people coming from a Middle Eastern backgrounds too, such as Yemenies, Saudi Arabian and Lebanese.

Rami Sabry

Moreover, in the media field, he appeared in three major middle eastern shows: Taratata, which was shot in Paris, Nagham and Sekout Hanghny.

Rutgers University Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures

Charles Häberl, Associate Professor, Chair of African, Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages and Literatures

Sankhni

Sankhni has a numbers of mosques and dargahs (Imam bargah's) which show influences from the best architecture of the middle eastern world, especially Mughal architecture.

Sharifa Alkhateeb

Alkhateeb was the Middle Eastern/Muslim Team Leader for the Community Resilience Project, a post-9/11 crisis counseling and referral program in Northern Virginia funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Shemspeed

Manufactured by Baruch Chertok’s company, Dveykus, the scarves caused some minor controversy by putting a Jewish spin on the Middle Eastern garb most prominently associated with the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Side degree

Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans - the culmination of a number of side degrees of the Oddfellows, most of which adopt the pseudo-Middle Eastern "oriental" theme - Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection, Veiled Prophets of Bagdad, Knights of Oriental Splendor, Ancient Mystic Order of Cabirians and the Imperial Order of Muscovites, who were unique in adopting a Russian motif.

Sri Lankan Moors

Along with those in the Central Province, the surname of many Moors in Colombo, Kalutara and Puttalam is their fathers' first name, which is similar to the traditional Arab and Middle Eastern kinship system.

Staniša Stošić

It's melody is very similar to the instrumental song Miserlou by Dick Dale featured in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, which was based on the old middle-eastern song, Misirlou, whose true origin is difficult to trace.

Stefan Heidemann

During his time at Jena University he co-ordinated the 'Oriental Coin Cabinet' and the 'Alphons-Stübel Collection of Middle Eastern Photographs (1850-1890)'.

Stephen Adebanji Akintoye

This work dispels the Middle Eastern and Arabia origins propounded by such scholars as the late Samuel Johnson (1846–1901) and also gave prominence to the works on the Pre-Oduduwa Period by Ulli Beier among others.

Syriac Christianity

The Eastern Rite tradition was historically associated with the Church of the East, and is currently employed by the Middle Eastern churches that descend from it, the Assyrian Church of the East, Ancient Church of the East, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, (the members of these churches are commonly Eastern Aramaic speaking ethnic Assyrians) as well as by the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church of India.

The Andromeda Breakthrough

Kidnapped by Intel representative Kaufman (John Hollis), John Fleming (Peter Halliday) along with Professor Madeleine Dawnay (Mary Morris) and Andromeda, the artificially constructed female humanoid (Susan Hampshire), are brought to Azaran, a small Middle Eastern country.

Vathek

Other Romantic poets wrote works with a Middle-Eastern setting inspired by Vathek, included Robert Southey's Thalaba the Destroyer (1801) and Thomas Moore's

Wild cucumber

Armenian cucumber, a melon which when pickled is sold as "pickled wild cucumber" in Middle Eastern markets.

Wings Over Israel

Wings Over Israel (AKA Combat Over Israel in some European market) is a PC game (Combat / Flight Simulator) covering the three major Middle Eastern conflicts Six-day War (1967), Yom Kippur War (1973) and Lebanon War (1982).