They carved up the Middle East map with the stroke of a pen ... out of the remains of the defunct Ottoman Empire. Ethnic, religious and topographical considerations were ignored or minimized.

The concept of Arab unity spread across the Middle East, as newly-independent ... is a patchwork of ideologies, religions and ethnicities (see map 4). In 1970 the defence minister, Hafez al ...

1 in Religious Saudi Arabia is the giant of the Middle East, with both the vast majority of land and wealth of the Arabian Peninsula falling within its borders. Millions of devout Muslims from ...