A Concise History of the Middle East

558 Index

Washington Institute for Near East
Policy, 433
Washington Times, 434
Water. See also Irrigation
as resource, 9,16, 20, 21,23,245, 322,
323, 340, 385,404,407,410,415,417
Watergate, 346, 348
Watt, W. Montgomery, 32
Wazir, 81. See also Viziers
Weapons inspection teams, UN, 405,435
Weapons of mass destruction, Iraq and,
420,426,432,434,435
Weizmann, Chaim, 217,277,278,280,284
West Africa, 130
West Asia. See Middle East
West Bank, 297,298,299, 315, 323, 330,
331, 333,334, 344,350,354, 355,
356, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 385,
387, 388, 391, 394,406,407,408,
410,411,413,414,415,416,439,
440,441,444,445,446
Western domination, of Middle East, 4
Westernization. See also Industrialization;
Modernization
of Iran, 238-241
of Middle East, 369-370
of Ottoman Empire, 175-180
of Turkey, 230-234
White paper, Zionism and, 279, 283,284
White Revolution, 241, 372, 373
White Russians, 226, 236
White Sheep Turcomans, 137,152,153
Wilson, Woodrow, 216,217,218, 256, 300

Wine, 110,118

Wingate, Reginald, 254, 255
Witness, 47
Wolfowitz, Paul, 432,433,435,440
Women, 39
as governmental leaders, 39,230
heaven and, 33,46
influence by, 116
Muhammad's lust for, 37
restrictions on, 47, 50, 395,406,417
rights of, 51,116,117, 230,241, 371
role of, 116
seclusion of, 50

World Trade Center attacks, 410,419,

431,434

World War I, 163,164,197

Arabs in, 210-211

Britain in, 210-211

Egypt and, 254

Ottoman Empire in, 209-216

postwar peace settlement, 216-220,

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Zionism and, 277

World War II, 3, 7,185, 234,241,246,247,

261, 263, 282, 285,286,297, 350, 375

Egypt and, 263

World Zionist Organization, 286

Worship, 47

Writing, beginning of, 15

Yad Mordechai kibbutz, 293

Yarmuk River, Battle of, 55

Yathrib, 24, 35. See also Medina

Yazid, 65,66, 67

Year of the Elephant, 29

Yemen, 24,25,64,90, 244,245,264, 317,

321, 322, 324,332, 339, 340, 355,

403,404,417,428,430,431

basic statistics for, 5311

civil war in, 332, 339

geography of, 10

Saudi Arabia and, 244

Yom Kippur, 36,40

Yom Kippur War. See October (1973) War

Young Turks, 196,198, 225,227. See also

Committee of Union and Progress

Arabs and, 208-209

in power, 197

Zaghlul, Sad, 190,255, 256,257, 258,259,

281

Zagros,20,102-104,132

Zakat, 48, 54, 76,115

Zayd, 38, 89

Zayd ibn Harithah, 32

Zayids, 89

Zayn, 38

Zaynab, 38

Zengi, 100