1. Human
geographic
in the
Middle East

2. The map of the
Middle East

3. Things in common
 Middle eastern countries are usually
linked by Islam the most common religion
there.
 Most of the famous empires and religions
were born there, such as Assyrian
Empire, the Persian Empire, Egyptian
empire, Macedonian empire, Arab
empire, Mongol empire, and Ottoman
empire.
 Nowadays the political situation in the
middle east is not very proper, and in
most countries you witness civil wars or
the trying to communicate with the

4. The language
 The Arabic language, the most
widely spoken, is a rich
language, The five top
languages, in terms of
numbers of speakers, are
Arabic, Persian, Turkish,
Berber, and Kurdish. Arabic
and Berber represent the Afro-
Asiatic language family.
Persian and Kurdish belong to
the Indo-European language
family. And Turkish belongs to
Turkic language family. About
20 minority languages are also
 Some of the spoken
languages are:
• Arabic
• Turkish
• Persian
• Assyrian
• Armenian
• Kurdish
• Turkmen

5. Religion
s
• According to the list of
states, the Middle East is
almost populated by
Muslims. However, this
religion masks a number of
important distinctions. There
are a number of different
sects within Islam. Most
Middle Eastern are Sunni or
Shia.
• But other faiths that
originated there, such as
Judaism and Christianity, are
also well represented.

6. Islam
sectors
A painting of
Muharram by:
Mahmoud
Frshchian
Shia or Sunni?
These two are the most common sectors in Islam and the middle east. Many
countries, such as Iraq, Bahrain and somehow Lebanon have been fighting
about which is the ruler.
Iran is the only fully Shia country and other Islamic countries in middle east are
either Sunni or half Shia.
Muharram is one of the most important months that Shias care about, and
have major mourning.

7. Economy
• Middle Eastern economies
range from very poor
(Afghanistan, Gaza and
Yemen) to extremely wealthy
(Qatar and UAE). Overall, as
of 2007 all nations in the
Middle East are maintaining a
positive rate of growth.
• The economic of Middle
Eastern nations are different
that some nations are heavily
dependent on export of only oil
and oil-related products ,
others have a highly diverse
economic base.(Egypt, Israel,
• Dubai_UAE
• Afghanistan

8. Tourism
• With the exception of
Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt,
Lebanon and Israel,
tourism has been an
undeveloped economy,
because of the socially
conservative nature as
well as political
problems in Middle East.
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However, UAE, Bahrain, and
Jordan are attracting greater
number of tourists because of
improving tourist facilities and
the relaxing of tourism-related
policies