Maps are ubiquitous – on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

40 maps that explain the Middle East by Max Fisher on March 26, 2015. ... Tripoli, still bears the name of the ancient Phoenician colony that established it. ...

Violent upheaval in the Middle East has recently spawned all manner of maps purporting to explain how the region got this way. Here, instead, are 15 maps that don’t claim as much.

In 1950, he lamented: “I had always felt that the name ‘Middle East’ for Egypt, the Levant, Syria, and Turkey was ill-chosen. This was the Near East.” Sign up ...

Middle East borders, ... Middle East map carved up by caliphates, enclaves and fiefdoms. Published. 1 June 2015. ... The agreement took its name from its negotiators, ...

And maps produced in a conflict region, such as Israel and the Palestinian territories, tell a rich story about the relationship between mapmaking and politics. Mapping the Middle East. During the ...

How maps’ names and border territories − and what they omit - can project different political objectives. Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional ...