Injecting liquids at high pressure into underground rock formations to extract oil and gas.
A high density area found in the city center in the Muslim world.
A political party that rued Iraq from 1968 to 2003.
An organized killing of a particular ethnic group.
A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.
An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.
The Christian Church in Egypt, one of the oldest on the world.
The war resulting from the attack in 1973 of Israel by Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
The recreation of a transnational authority guided by Islamic principles and is a long held belief of many Sunni fundamentalists.
A more formalized written standard form of Arabic that is commonly used across the Arab-speaking world, in contrast to the multiple forms of spoken Arabic.
A belief and adherence to the idea that Jewish people should be allowed to establish and maintain their own state in Israel.
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