From ancient gods to a wandering gazelle and a slow-moving stream, there are some intriguing (and possibly false) stories behind many of the names of countries and territories in the Middle East.

Almost seven years ago, I wrote a cover story for this magazine about the coming collapse of the post-World War I Middle East map. I conducted ... up of Sudan into two countries (although we ...

Almost every Gulf state has recently upgraded its partnerships with China and other Asian countries. Amid these continual and growing transregional connections, however, U.S. foreign policy remains ...

A MAP of Europe and the Middle East on a scale of 1: 11 million ... No submarine relief is shown: water is blue. Names of countries and principal rivers and towns are in black.

The following maps help highlight ... while those in more stable countries were the only ones to survive. In the 1940s and 1950s, the endurance of monarchies in the Middle East was inseparable ...

Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and name territories ... exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars ...