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South-East Asia Treaty Organization
South-East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). A US-led security pact designed to contain communism in south-east Asia to North Vietnam. Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand were the other signatories of the founding treaty of Manila (September 1954). SEATO... Read more |
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Sayyid
Sayyid ETHNONYMS: none The Sayyids are descendants of Ali, the son-in-law of Mohammed by Fatima, Mohammed's daughter; and those found in South Asia today are the representatives of the Sayyids who, during the Muslim supremacy, flocked to India as religious teachers, soldiers, and adventurers,... Read more |
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monsoon
monsoon [Arab., mausium =season], wind that changes direction with change of season, notably in India and SE Asia. To a lesser degree, monsoonal winds also develop in portions of all other continents except Antarctica. The change of wind direction is caused by the differences in temperatures of... Read more |
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Asia
Asia , the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. Boundaries Asia's border with Europe—which, geographically, may be regarded as a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass—lies... Read more |
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. The name "Southeast Asia" came into popular use after World War II and has replaced... Read more |
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South Asia
SOUTH ASIA Writing about education in South Asian region means writing about one-fourth of the world's population. South Asia comprises seven contiguous countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The region is geographically knit together and is homogenous in... Read more |
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South Korea
South Korea Basic Data Official Country Name: Republic of Korea Region: East & South Asia Population: 47,470,969 Language(s): Korean, English Literacy Rate: 98% Academic Year: March-February ... Read more |
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Asia Minor
Asia Minor great peninsula, c.250,000 sq mi (647,500 sq km), extreme W Asia, generally coterminous with Asian Turkey, also called Anatolia. It is washed by the Black Sea in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, and the Aegean Sea in the west. The Black and Aegean seas are linked by the Sea... Read more |
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Colombo Plan
Colombo Plan international economic organization created in a cooperative attempt to strengthen the economic and social development of the nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Officially the Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in Asia and the Pacific, it came into force in 1951... Read more |
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Beware the spread of Sunni anger Anti-Shiism in Iraq and beyond
...stability in a broad swath of Asia from Pakistan to Lebanon...Iraqi politics. Anti-Shiism is embedded in the ideology...beliefs have spread to South Asia and Afghanistan, where...throughout the Middle East and South Asia. This means putting pressure... |
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Shia power causing resentment in parts of Arab world
...and even as far away as south Asia. Then Iraq was invaded...a conspiracy to spread Shiism from India to Egypt...is active in spreading Shiism even in the countries...centuries and enshrined Shiism as the state religion... |
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The Arab Shia: The Forgotten Muslims.(Review)
...their SLA minions out of south Lebanon earlier this...Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent...that distinguishes Shiism from the rest of Islam...highly heterodox form of Shiism" (p 46), a rather...party in 1966. Zaydi Shiism dates from the time of... |
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Korom, Frank J. Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean...
...festival influences in South Asia. The author's perspective...small minority throughout South Asia, and Muharram would not...light of the fact that Shiism quickly became inoperative...distinct from those in South Asia. As a focal point on the... |
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IRAQ POLICY ISSUES:VALI R. NASR
...anti-Shia rhetoric and attacks in theMiddle East and South Asia. All this suggests that Iraq has introducedsectarianism...forces. In the Arab world and Pakistan violentanti-Shiism is the domain of radical pro-al-Qaeda clerics, websites... |
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Ancient Khan al-Khalili - Cairo's Historic Market.
...world. Goods flowed north to Europe or south to Africa, west to Morocco and Spain...This is a place to smell the spices of Asia and Africa, to view hand-worked leather...the Sunni branch. Though Husayn founded Shiism, he is still venerated in Egypt because... |
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Iran Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country/The Shia...
...supposed nuclear ambitions. Two books about Iran and Shiism are must reads to understand better the current dilemma...continue to shape regional politics in the Middle East and South Asia. It is a book to which U.S. policy makers, military... |
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Sunni-Shia Sectarianism and Competition for the Leadership of Global Islam
...emirates and Saudi Arabia drew labor migrants from throughout South Asia Thus- to take one example- hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis...KNOW THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF Islamic sectarianism. Shiism arose in the seventh century because of a political dispute... |
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