Exam 29: Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

_______, which had become an independent kingdom under its Hashemite ruler, was flooded by the arrival of one million urban Palestinians.

After World War II, many educated Asians and Africans questioned which European concept of communal identity?

Uhuru is the famous Swahili word for

Of the AIDS cases reported around the world, ____ percent are found on the continent of Africa.

The one issue that has served as a unifying factor for all Middle Eastern Arab states since the 1940s has been their

Egyptian protesters in 2011 helped oust longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.

29-4a The Question of Palestine

The Ba'ath Party assumed power in ____ in 1957 in which country?

The two Muslim states in the Middle East that were in the forefront of giving greater rights to women before 1980 were

Which of these countries did NOT emerge as an independent state after World War II?

The hopes for a lasting Middle East peace after Camp David were never realized, in part because of

The Organization of African Unity sought to

Twentieth century efforts to modernize Islam have been most successful in

What most accounts for the wide disparity between rich and poor in the Middle East?

The African country with the largest population and an ongoing problem of violent unrest is

The tragic situation in the Central African states of Rwanda and Burundi was the conflict between

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

In the years since the nations of Africa attained independence

The Western presence in Africa left a legacy that