The Middle East: A region wracked by wars, sorrow, and lot of geographic misunderstanding. (Geography Smart).(Brief Article) From: Junior Scholastic | Date: October 29, 2001| Author: McMahon, Jim | COPYRIGHT 2001 Scholastic, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

"Trouble in the Middle East"--that headline can be found on the front page of every large newspaper almost weekly. When TV news covers a bombing in Yemen, violent clashes in the West Bank, or the location of terrorist camps in Afghanistan, it often reports that all these places are a part of the Middle East. But when you try to locate the Middle East on a map, you will notice that the words are not printed there. That's because it is a region, not a country.

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