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Department of Political Science

P.S. 270 Politics and Society in the Middle East

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ETHNIC DIVERSITY

A CURSE OR A BLESSING?

1. Linguistic Divisions [map]

2. Artificial Boundaries [map]

3. Historical Ties – Empires, etc.

4. Un-kept Promises and Need for self-identity

5. Whose Land? Past vs. Present; Does Might Make Right?

6. Are Minorities Religious or Ethnic?

7. Iran: a Country of Minorities, but Is it a Melting Pot?

8. The Kurds: or the Forgotten Orphans

9. Israel: a Paradise for the Displaced Jews or a Hell for the Displaced Palestinians? Will That Issue Ever Go Away? Or, as one Southern Senator once said: "Why Don’t They Act Like Good Christians?"

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