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Contents 1 Parent topics 2 Subtopics 2.1 Ancient history 2.2 Modern leadership & opposition 2.3 Military and security 2.4 Geography 3 Other related topics 4 Bot-suggested topics

Parent topics

• Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. [e]
• Arabic [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Maghreb [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Ancient history

• Great Pyramid of Giza [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Félix d'Hérelle [r]: (1873 – 1949) - A French-Canadian bacteriologist, and the discoverer of bacteriophages. [e]
• Imhotep [r]: The Egyptian architect, alive during the years 2650-2600 B.C, responsible for the first pyramid. [e]

Modern leadership & opposition

• Gamal Nasser [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anwar Sadat [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hosni Mubarrak [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Arab League [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Muslim Brotherhood [r]: An Islamic political group, formed in Egypt and increasingly part of the political system there, which has worldwide branches; it may be moving from a Salafist ideology to a more mulilateral one [e]

Military and security

• Arab-Israeli Conflict [r]: Politics, insurgency, terrorism, and counterinsurgency between the State of Israel and the population of the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza [e]
• 1967 Arab-Israeli War [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 2008-2009 Gaza conflict [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Al-Jihad [r]: An Egyptian insurgent group, whose name translated as Holy Struggle [e]
• Ibn Sheikh al-Libi [r]: A Libyan member of al-Qaeda whose interrogation results, later recanted, were a large part of the U.S. justfication for starting the Iraq War because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; he was in various CIA programs of extraordinary rendition and interrogation [e]
• Ahmed Agiza [r]: An Egyptian citizen, rendered to Egypt by Swedish and U.S. personnel, where he was imprisoned for a 1999 in absentia conviction of belonging to an illegal organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad; the removal from Sweden did not involve extradition and may have violated the refoulement provision of the Convention against Torture. [e]
• Extrajudicial detention, Egypt [r]: General policies of modern Egypt for extrajudicial detention either by the Egyptian authorities directly, or where Egypt receives prisoners from third countries [e]
• Extraordinary rendition, U.S., Bill Clinton Administration [r]: Extraordinary rendition of suspects of counterterrorism programs in the Clinton Administration, with brief U.S. interrogation but primary coercive interrogation in third countries [e]
• Extraordinary rendition, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policy, legal interpretation and examples, under the George W. Bush Administration, of extraordinary rendition, U.S., primarily related to the Administration's war on terror [e]
• Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj [r]: A Sudanese journalist for the Al Jazeera news agency, held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp for suspicion of acting as a terrorist courier; released in 2008 [e]

Geography

• Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savanna as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. [e]
• Israel [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
• Libya [r]: North African revolutionary republic led by Muammar al-Gaddafi, which normalised diplomatic ties with the West in 2003; fourth-largest African nation, population about 6,000,000. [e]
• Nile River [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sudan [r]: A nation in East Africa/Horn of Africa, with the largest land area of any country in Africa, and near-continuous civil wars since British independence in 1956; effectively a federation of Arab and African parts with a scheduled plebiscite on separation [e]

Other related topics

• Egyptian Neopaganism [r]: A modern religious revival attempting to reconstruct the beliefs and practices of ancient Egypt. [e]
• Al-Azhar University [r]: Located in Cairo,Egypt, while associated with conservative Sunni, generally considered the world's premier educational institution in Islamic studies [e]

Bot-suggested topics

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• British Empire [r]: The worldwide domain controlled by Britain from its origins about 1600 until independence was granted to the dominions in the 1920s, India in 1947, and the other colonies about 1960. [e]

• Alexander the Great [r]: King of Macedon who conquered the Persian Empire in the late 4th century BCE. [e]
• Anise [r]: Annual herbaceous plant in the Apiaceae family that produces oil-rich fruits that have a distinct licorice taste. [e]

• Barley [r]: Related cereal plants within the genus Hordeum, grown worldwide as a major staple crop. [e]
• Beard [r]: Human facial hair covering part of the lower face, particularly the chin, throat and lower cheeks. [e]
• Beekeeping [r]: The management and maintenance of colonies of honeybees. [e]
• Biotechnology [r]: The application of biological principles in industrial production [e]

• CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Chemistry [r]: The science of matter, or of the electrical or electrostatical interactions of matter. [e]
• Communications intelligence [r]: The subset of SIGINT concerned with signals intended to be intelligible to human beings, in the form of voice, messages, or images. [e]
• Confederation [r]: A sovereign nation formed by the joining together of other sovereign nations. [e]
• Country [r]: Nation, state, region, or territory, or large tract of land distinguishable by features of topography, biology, or culture. [e]
• Cyrus the Great [r]: (580-529 B.C.) First Archaemedid emperor; founded Persia by uniting two Iranian tribes, the Medes and the Persians. [e]
• Dialect continuum [r]: Range of dialects spoken across a large geographical area, differing only slightly between areas that are geographically close, and gradually decreasing in mutual intelligibility as the distances become greater. [e]
• Domestication [r]: The process of habituating wild animals or plants to live in association with humans, thereby providing us with food, livestock and pets. [e]
• Duleep Singh [r]: was a Sikh ruler of the sovereign country of Punjab and the Sikh Empire. [e]

• Extrajudicial detention [r]: The policy and practice of holding prisoners captive without judicial authority to do so, or without a recognized authority under international law, such capture of prisoners of war [e]

• Gaza Strip [r]: 26-mile-long Middle Eastern coastal region long the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt and Israel; population about 1.4 million Palestinian people, governed by Hamas since June 2007. [e]
• Ghana [r]: A country in West Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Togo. [e]
• Gold [r]: Chemical element 79, a lustrous corrosion-resistant precious metal used for money, electronics and jewelry. [e]
• Gospel of Thomas [r]: Apocryphal gospel containing sayings attributed to Jesus. [e]

• Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [r]: An Egyptian cleric, captured by U.S. and Italian intelligence officers in Italy, sent by extraordinary rendition to Egypt, and later released; Italy indicted intelligence personnel involved in the rendition and the trial is ongoing [e]
• Hebrew Bible [r]: consists of religious works categorized into the Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). [e]
• Hydroelectric [r]: Hydroelectric is a term for the using the power of running water to generate electricity. [e]

• Infanticide [r]: Intentionally causing the death of an infant [e]
• Insect [r]: One of numerous small arthropod animals with six legs, an exoskeleton that grows by molting, and oftentimes wings. [e]
• Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. [e]
• Iron deficiency anemia [r]: Anaemia resulting from a deficiency of iron, characterized by hypochromic microcytic erythrocytes and a normoblastic reaction of the bone marrow. [e]
• Israel-Palestine conflict [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Israel [r]: Country in the Middle East. [e]
• Jesus [r]: Traveling preacher in first century CE, foundational figure in Christianity. [e]
• Judaism [r]: Monotheistic religion of the Jewish people based on the Torah. [e]
• Kenneth Adelman [r]: Member, Committee on the Present Danger; Board of Trustees, Freedom House; board, International Crisis Group; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency during the Reagan Administration; Republican activist who supported Barack Obama [e]
• Lebanon [r]: a country in the Middle East. It borders Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Its official language is Arabic, although French is widely spoken. The capital and largest city of Lebanon is Beirut. [e]
• Library [r]: Collection of books and periodicals. [e]
• List of rivers by length [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Lower house [r]: One of two chambers of a bicameral legislature. [e]
• MIM-104 Patriot [r]: Missile originally developed for medium-to-high altitude aircraft interception (SAM) use, which, while retaining that capability, is now optimized as an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) for relatively small but critical areas. The SAM versions have explosive warheads but the ABM is hit-to-kill. [e]
• Manichaeism [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mediterranean Sea [r]: The body of water separating Europe from Africa. [e]
• Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. [e]
• Missile Technology Control Regime [r]: Informal and voluntary association of countries which share the goals of non-proliferation of unmanned delivery systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction. [e]
• Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. [r]: A civil lawsuit, filed against a Central Intelligence Agency contractor that supported the logistics of extraordinary rendition, which has been dismissed when the government invoked the state secrets privilege; appellate review was requested in late 2008 [e]
• Moses [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Muslim Brotherhood [r]: An Islamic political group, formed in Egypt and increasingly part of the political system there, which has worldwide branches; it may be moving from a Salafist ideology to a more mulilateral one [e]
• Number theory [r]: The study of integers and relations between them. [e]
• One Laptop per Child [r]: US non-profit organization set up to oversee the creation of an affordable educational device for use in the developing world. [e]
• Operation BRIGHT STAR [r]: A major multinational training exercise, held every one or two years, led by the U.S. and Egypt, involving coalitions of dozens of nations under United States Central Command (CENTCOM) [e]
• Operation Torch [r]: Successful American invasion of French North Africa during World War II; first American-German combat on land. [e]
• Ottoman Empire [r]: The Turkish state which controlled much of the Middle East from the 15th century to 1923. [e]
• Palestine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Paper [r]: A type of material made of flat sheets of dried, fibrous substances, but most commonly refers to those made from wood pulp. [e]
• Paul K. Van Riper [r]: A retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general, who has become known for successful enemy roleplaying in policy-level war gaming, and has criticized U.S. policy in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. [e]
• Petroleum refining processes [r]: The chemical engineering processes used in petroleum refining. [e]
• Pound sterling [r]: The currency of the United Kingdom, its Crown dependencies (the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands) and the British Overseas Territories of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and British Antarctic Territory, subdivided into 100 pence, with the symbol £. [e]
• Ra [r]: Ancient Egyptian sun god, and a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the mid-day sun, with other deities representing other positions of the sun. [e]
• Republic [r]: A form of government in which political power and authority is derived from the citizenry, and not from a monarch, whether hereditary or "tyrannical" (ie, a dictator). [e]
• Roman Empire [r]: The period from the ascension of Augustus Caesar to the fall of the Empire. [e]

• Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge about the physical world derived from the activities of observation and experimentation. [e]
• Sculpture [r]: The art of manipulating materials to create three-dimensional forms [e]
• Sharia [r]: The Muslim system of law and rule of conduct inspired by the Qu'ran, the Sunna, traditional law systems, and the Hadiths. [e]
• Solon [r]: Athenian Statesman and poet, credited with setting the wheels of Democracy in motion in Athens. [e]
• Soranus of Ephesus [r]: (1st - 2nd century) Greek physician from Ephesus, who was one of the chief representatives of the Methodic school of medicine. [e]
• State [r]: A set of political institutions exercising sovereign political authority over a territory. [e]
• Superhero [r]: Fictional figure, especially in a comic strip or cartoon, endowed with superhuman powers and usually portrayed as fighting evil or crime. [e]
• Thales [r]: (fl. 6th century B.C.) Greek philosopoher sometimes considered the founder of modern philosophy and astronomy; important chiefly because he sought for a natural explanation of phenomena rather than a mythical or religious explanation. [e]
• The Satanic Verses (novel) [r]: Novel by Salman Rushdie, published 1988. [e]
• Tintin [r]: The central character in the Adventures of Tintin comics series created by Hergé - the pen name of Georges Remi. [e]
• U.S. Intelligence and terrorism in the 1990s [r]: Tracking and actions against terrorism by the United States intelligence community in the 1990s [e]
• U.S. intelligence activities in Chad [r]: Activities of the United States intelligence community in Chad, as well as diplomatic and military activities that indirectly produce intelligence [e]
• U.S. intelligence and transnational counterproliferation activities [r]: An overview over activities of the United States intelligence community, specifically dealing with arms control, weapons of mass destruction and weapons counterproliferation. [e]
• U.S. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Technological aid, intelligence, the sale of dual-use and military equipment, but no direct combat against Iran, in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War [e]
• United States Central Command [r]: Unified Combatant Command responsible for U.S. operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, now under the command of General David Petraeus [e]
• Upper house [r]: One of two chambers of a bicameral legislature. [e]
• Victoria [r]: Queen of Britain from 1837-1901, the longest reign in British history. [e]
• Wheat [r]: Grass crop grown worldwide and used in making flour and fermentation for alcohol production. [e]
• World War I, Australia [r]: Wartime preparations of Australian forces, and participation of Australian units under British high command [e]