Maps can be a powerful tool for understanding the world, particularly the Middle East ... the "crescent" of land mostly includes modern-day Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Israel-Palestine.

This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across ... considered the father of modern-day Zionism, as ...

Instead, these maps provide a more fluid perspective on the Middle East, often by showing what ... which roughly corresponds to modern-day Turkey. As Islam spread in the seventh century, many ...

But fewer people realize that, in addition to creating the map of the modern Middle East, postwar European imperialists actually created the concept. The region we recognize as the Middle East ...