Of the top 100 most popular YouTube channels that aren't industry-sponsored, there is one black creator, four Asians and one of Middle Eastern descent, according to Web researcher Jenny Unghba Korn.
One of the most beloved pieces Matisse made during those last few years is an abstract take on "One Thousand and One Nights, " the famed collection of Middle Eastern folk tales relayed by the fictional Scheherazade each evening to avoid death at the hands of a murderous Persian king.
Protecting one's family against humiliation is important in Middle Eastern culture, he says.
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One critic has been US Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, Denise Spellberg, who said the book was a disrespectful mis-representation of history.
One reason for the apparent confusion of Mr Bush's Middle Eastern policy is his determination to appease the right.
In one incident last November, Tamerlan confronted a shopkeeper at a Middle Eastern grocery store in Cambridge, near a mosque where he sometimes prayed, after seeing a sign there advertising Thanksgiving turkeys.
Political correctness raises its obligatory head: one song is about a love affair between an American and a Middle Eastern Muslim, complete with Pakistani musicians.
While one emirate, Bahrain, has dodged such pitfalls by enshrining primogeniture, some Middle Eastern monarchies have altered rules so that the reigning king simply appoints his successor.
Turkish and Middle Eastern food is all the rage in Bucharest right now and one of the liveliest spaces to sample enormous kebabs and plates of hummus and baba ganoush is Divan, where waiters in traditional Ottoman garb dazzle the crowds.
If Mr. Obama implies (as he no doubt will) that Mr. Romney wants to start a third Middle Eastern war, the answer is that the only way to prevent one is to let Tehran know we're deadly serious.
And I think that the -- we both agree that a peace based on illusions will crash eventually on the rocks of Middle Eastern reality, and that the only peace that will endure is one that is based on reality, on unshakeable facts.
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His position on Middle Eastern matters is so outside the mainstream of both parties that almost no one agrees with him.
As it is, Canada, Mexico and Venezuela already are the key suppliers of oil to the U.S. But middle eastern oil nations have gotten the U.S. into more than one tight spot on foreign policy matters.
Now, one NATO ally asks Turkey to grant access to its shores to deploy missile systems against a Middle Eastern neighbor, and thereby to trade in any hard-earned goodwill in the region and risk its own security.
But that was also one of her failures: the paper's chief investigative reporter, Mazher Mahmood, dressed up as a Middle Eastern sheikh to lure Sophie and her then-partner, Murray Harkin, into implied admissions that her royal connections could be used to the benefit of clients of their PR agency.
In an opening chapter on how the Middle East plays in American minds, he shows how moments in Middle Eastern history used to be reported in the National Geographic, a popular magazine that at least at one time was a window on the world for millions of middle-class Americans.
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