Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East ... the "crescent" of land mostly includes modern-day Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Israel-Palestine.

View a timeline of events that took place between the Israelis and Egypt, Syria and Jordan during the Six Day War ... 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. "This he proceeds to do.

Instead, these maps provide a more fluid perspective on the Middle East, often by showing what ... which roughly corresponds to modern-day Turkey. As Islam spread in the seventh century, many ...

But fewer people realize that, in addition to creating the map of the modern Middle East, postwar European imperialists actually created the concept. The region we recognize as the Middle East ...