He is vying for a national parliamentary seat in a middle-class neighborhood in west Lahore.
Part-time volunteers, who in the West are often middle-class people who want to help out in their spare time and are often the mainstay of charities, are all but unknown in Russia.
African airline start-ups, local carriers and even international airlines are out to prove that jet travel can extend beyond deep-pocketed passengers to West Africa's flourishing middle-class and business travelers.
Reaching further back, the Central Europeans who belonged to the Habsburg empire have tapped into a tradition of education, administration and commerce, backed by a middle-class, that looked west.
And it sort of got lost this week, and nobody has asked about it, but the United States dropped its demand that Israel freeze its settlements in the Middle East -- on the West Bank.
West is still dominated by large housing estates but there are also middle-class areas around Dundee Law and the West End, for example.
Six years ago, when Ichikowitz acquired this 90-acre site in the middle of the 185, 000-acre Madikwe Game Reserve in the North West Province bordering Botswana, he never imagined anything on quite this scale.
Even in west Leicester, a solitary middle-aged Jamaican man can walk into a pub on an almost entirely white housing estate without fear of trouble.
Many of the music clips - like those in the West - are selling sex in a way that is new to the Middle East.
There were two new passengers on the bunks below who had got on in the middle of the night, somewhere west of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
And some, especially in America, have argued that the supposedly limitless supply of African crude is the key to reducing the West's over-dependence on politically risky Middle Eastern supplies.
The son of a Chicago English professor, West made his mark by dressing preppy and wrapping about black middle-class angst.
Obama's turn as tourist capped a four-day visit to the Middle East that included stops in Israel and the West Bank, as well Jordan.
Al-Jazeera admits Web use is lower in the Middle East than in the West, but now that it has established a beachhead, it is anxious to tout the benefits of advertising to what it claims is an affluent audience.
In some ways, middle-class status in China doesn't confer the same privileges as in the West.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- The future of the Middle East entered a new era of uncertainty Thursday, as the militant Palestinian opposition group Hamas snatched power from the ruling old guard and made skeptics of many key players in the peace process.
But the Middle East looms equally large in one of the key swing states in America's mid-west, Michigan.
When Rumaila's deposits were discovered, it was the second-biggest oilfield in the Middle East, if measured together with its adjacent sister field at West Qurna.
For example, the arrests of John Walker Lindh (a white, middle-class man better known as the 'American Taliban') and Richard Reid (a British citizen of West Indian and European ancestry now serving a life sentence at the Supermax prison in Colorado) confirm that effective law enforcement techniques must rely solely on criminal behavior and not race, religion or nationality in order to ensure our citizens' security.
They think that China - the "middle kingdom" - can get rich on its own terms, not by simply mimicking everything that happened in the West.
Will Honeybourne, a First Reserve managing director in Houston who helped spearhead the deal--and beat out rival buyout shop Candover--notes that Abbot's rig-building and operating subsidiaries Bentec and KCA Deutag are particularly strong in Russia, West Africa, the Middle East and Libya.
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