Kuwait
Kuwait is a small country at the northern head of the Persian Gulf, bordered by Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Once a modest port living by trade, pearling,…
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Qatar
Qatar is a small country occupying a peninsula that juts into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian mainland. Once a poor land of pearl divers and…
Bahrain
Bahrain is a small island nation in the Persian Gulf, an archipelago lying off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia, to which it is joined by a…
Oman
Oman is a country on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, facing the Arabian Sea and guarding the entrance to the Persian Gulf. A land of…
Yemen
Yemen is a country at the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, where the Red Sea meets the Arabian Sea. In ancient times its fertile, well-watered…
Jordan
Jordan is a country in the Middle East, set on the east bank of the Jordan River between the deserts of Arabia and the Mediterranean world. A largely…
Israel
Israel is a small country in the Middle East, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, in a region of profound significance to several of the…
Syria
Syria is a country in the Middle East, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, with a history reaching back to the dawn of civilisation. Its…
Iraq
Iraq is a country in the Middle East, built around the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the land that ancient writers called Mesopotamia,…
Iran
Iran, historically known as Persia, is a large country in western Asia, a high and mountainous land bridging the Middle East and Central Asia. Heir…
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is a large country occupying most of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East, a vast expanse of desert between the Red Sea and the…
Egypt
Egypt is a country linking northeast Africa with the Middle East, defined above all by the River Nile, whose green valley cuts through vast deserts.…