Shopping in Saudi Arabia There are almost no cinemas in Saudi Arabia, no alcohol bars, nightclubs, casinos and other Western amusements at all. Perhaps that is why they love shopping here so much – what[…]
Category: Middle East
Palestine Population and History
The set of territories already occupied by Israel in 1967 and, with the agreements of 1993 and 1995, subject to negotiation to be partly intended for the administration of the Palestinian National Authority, amounts to[…]
Medical Tourism in Israel
The number of Russians traveling abroad for treatment is growing significantly from year to year. The main destinations are Israel, Germany and Switzerland. What is the advantage of treatment in Israel? Israeli medicine is a[…]
Egypt Economy
Egypt’s economy became socialized after the enactment of a series of laws in early 1961. The government took over foreign trade, wholesale trade, banking, insurance, and most industries. Although agriculture, urban real estate, and some[…]
Israel History: The first Intifada
The Intifada, with which the Palestinians want to shake off the Israeli occupying power, developed from the serious riots that began in the Gaza Strip on December 8, 1987 and then spread across the West[…]
Israel and its Arab Neighbors
On May 15, 1948 the British mandate over Palestine expired. Citing the UN partition resolution of November 29, 1947, by which Israel would have covered 15 100 km 2 (56.5% of the total area) and[…]
Israel Politics and Economy
Politics Israel is a parliamentary republic. There is no written constitution. According to equzhou, the people elect a parliament, the Knesset. Parliament passes laws and appoints a government. It elects the president, who has no[…]
Israel Arts
Israeli art, term for the development of art in the State of Israel founded in 1948. According to animalerts, it is characterized by a variety of cultural traditions that immigrants brought with them from all over[…]
Iran Politics and Economy
Politics Iran is an Islamic republic with a presidential system based on Shiite Islam. A council of experts, made up of theologians elected for eight years, elects the leader of the Islamic Revolution for life.[…]
Iran History and Culture
According to paradisdachat, Iran is an Islamic Republic. The Constitution approved by referendum on 2 December 1979 establishes the subordination of the state to the leadership of the Shiite clergy. At the top of the[…]
Iran History
HISTORY: FROM THE ARAB CONQUEST TO THE ATTEMPT AT AN ENGLISH PROTECTORATE The Arab conquest (634-651) inserted Iran into the Muslim empire that was being created in the first years after Muhammad’s death, spreading Islam[…]
Iran History after Khomeini
Starting in 1989, with the death of Imām Khomeini and the election of the new President of the Republic, Hashemi Alī Akbar Rafsanjani, relations with foreign countries seemed to have significantly improved. Rafsanjani, with his[…]
Iran Culture and Traditions
CULTURE According to animalerts, the cultural landscape that today’s Iran represents and expresses derives largely from the Persian civilization, which was born and developed here. In fact, the bond that still binds the Iranians to[…]
ILO
The International Labor Organization (abbreviated as ILO by Abbreviationfinder) was founded in 1919 with the aim of improving the conditions for workers worldwide and thereby contributing to a higher standard of living and social justice.[…]
WTO Business
The business The purpose of the WTO is to abolish all tariffs and other barriers to trade in order to achieve the goal of global free trade and thereby promote growth in the world. The[…]
Yemen 1998
Yearbook 1998 Yemen. According to Countryaah, the capital of Yemen is Sanaa. 1998 was a troubled year. In June, the government announced price increases of up to 40% as a result of the economic reform[…]
United Arab Emirates 1998
Yearbook 1998 United Arab Emirates. What the United Arab Emirates as well as the other states south of the Persian Gulf especially want to see in the region is stability. As a result, frustration grew[…]
Turkey 1998
Yearbook 1998 Turkey. The year was marked by crises both domestic and foreign policy. The Islamic Welfare Party (Refah Partisi, RP) – whose government had been forced to fall by the military in 1997 and[…]
Syria 1998
Yearbook 1998 Syria. In February President Hafiz al-Asad dismissed his brother Rifat al-Asad from the post of Vice President. The two brothers had been on edge before, including 1984 when Hafiz al-Asad forced his brother[…]
Qatar 1998
Yearbook 1998 Qatar. In February, a lawsuit was initiated against more than 100 people suspected of involvement in a coup attempt in 1996. Two people were sentenced to ten years in prison for revealing state[…]
Oman 1998
Yearbook 1998 Oman. According to Countryaah, the capital of Oman is Muscat. Oman’s new two-chamber parliament began working in January. A great deal of energy went into finding collaborative forms for the two chambers, Majlis[…]
Lebanon 1998
Yearbook 1998 Lebanon. Following the sign of Syria, in October, Lebanon’s parliament elected Commander-in-Chief Emile Lahoud as new president. He succeeded Elias Hrawi, who has held the post since the end of the war in[…]
Kuwait 1998
Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait, capital of Kuwait at the northwest end of the Persian Gulf, in a protected location on the south bank of the Bay of Kuwait; Kuwait City has (2018) 62 100 residents,[…]
Jordan 1998
Yearbook 1998 Jordan. King Hussein, one of the heads of state in the world who has spent the longest time in his post, was cared for a large part of the year for lymph node[…]
Israel 1998
Yearbook 1998 Israel. According to Countryaah, the capital of Israel is Jerusalem. Israel was characterized during the year by a political crisis that culminated just before the turn of the year when the government’s position[…]
Iraq 1998
Yearbook 1998 Iraq. According to Countryaah, the capital of Iraq is Baghdad. During the year, Iraq continued to prevent UN weapons inspectors UNSCOM (United Nations Special Commission) from carrying out their missions, ie. inspect facilities[…]
Iran 1998
Yearbook 1998 Iran. The year was marked by a dramatic power struggle between the country’s conservative and liberal camps. In April, one of Liberal President Mohammad Khatami’s closest ally was arrested, Tehran’s popular mayor Gholamhossain[…]