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The Middle East
The geography behind the headlines: deserts, rivers and oil; borders drawn after the Ottoman collapse; Sunni, Shia and ethnic maps; Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel as regional powers; chokepoints; and the water and demographic pressures ahead.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Rise of Islam; The Prize (Books); Sea Power. Next: India. Sources: Tim Marshall's *Prisoners of Geography* ch. 6, Eugene Rogan's *The Arabs*, EIA country data.Next: 1. Physical geography