Middle
East and
North
Africa
in case you're as ignorant as I was.
Here's another in the series of regional literacy tests:
1. There are over 2 million refugees from Iraq. In which two countries are they mainly?
2. The Al Yamamah Deal featured in recent newspaper headlines. What does it refer to? (Incidentally what does the word [اليمامة] mean in Arabic)?
3. What caused the Arla Dairy Company to lose tonnes of money?
4. Where did the “Cedar Revolution” recently occur and what triggered it?
5. Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser?
6. In 1977 which Arab head of government addressed the Knesset?
7. Which two Middle East countries were at war with each other between 1980 and 1988?
8. Which Maghreb country had a brutal civil war from 1991 to 2002?
9. What are the three main communities comprising the Iraqi population?
10. Who is the longest serving head of state in the MENA?
11. Who was Maimonides?
12. Who was Naguib Mahfouz?
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1. syria & jordan
2. arms sales - UK to Saudi (dove)(recent??)
3. boycott by ME (2006?) following cartoon published in Jyllands-Posten
4. Lebanon (Beriut) - Hariri ass.
5. Egyptian president (1956-70)
6. Anwar Sadat
7. Iraq-Iran
8. Algeria
9. Persian, Azeri, Kurds
10. This is a difficult one.. I'm going to guess Ali Abdallah Salih (Yemen)... or Qaddafi??
11. philosopher!!
12. 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
Wow!!
11 out of 12 is pretty amazing in this one. I think I got 8 when I tried.
Qaddafi came to power in 1969; Salih has only been around since 1978.
Hot damn.
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