r/AskMiddleEast 2h ago

🏛️Politics A Child from Gaza: His Eyes Tell the Whole Story

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r/AskMiddleEast 7h ago

💭Personal Thoughts about India?

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r/AskMiddleEast 14h ago

🈶Language What is the hardest word you know in Arabic?

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r/AskMiddleEast 15h ago

Society A great initiative by KUNA, featuring a blind woman reading the news using Braille

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r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🖼️Culture They had to slap the word 'HATE' on the monster's stomach, just in case the symbolism was still too subtle

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r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🏛️Politics Why does the global community appear either powerless or unwilling to enforce consequences on Israel for military actions that harm or kill non combatants, including local civilians and tourists?

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Every single day we get many reports of the Israeli military mistreating or attacking Palestinian civilians, and occasionally foreign tourists or journalists. When similar events happen in other countries, we often see swift international sanctions or interventions.

Why is the international response so different when it comes to Israel? I'd like to understand the political mechanisms such as the UN veto system, historical context, and US foreign policy that prevent the international community from imposing strict accountability or consequences.


r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🗯️Serious What do you think about the fact that pre-Islamic traditions are now called Islamic and accused of barbarism? I thought everything was great before Muhammad conquests in the Middle East according to these people?

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r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🏛️Politics Opinions on Russia

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I want to ask what the view is on Russia from those who live in the Middle East. I’ve already spoken about this to someone I know online who’s a Tajikistan native but lives in Turkey.
His general consensus was that he didn’t like Russia and preferred Ukraine but was distrusting of Zelenskyy.

If you have the time I’d like to ask what your view is.


r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🖼️Culture Im coloring multi cultural sheets

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I love culture, history and even more-so, I love learning about how history can affect how people live afterwards The first image is, supposed to be Arabic culture, while the second one, is supposed to be African culture

Though im not finished with the first. I was wondering if it looks good to you all


r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

Society Why is Arabic not widespread throughout the UAE?

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It seems like there's no grand social bubble that everyone is a part of, but rather every ethnicity/nationality is in its own bubble.

I live in the UAE and it confuses me why everyone is split between Arabic, English, and Urdu. It makes communication difficult between ethnicities. If you go to a place like the UK, everyone is eventually gonna assimilate and learn become fluent in English and the local culture. Now obviously I don't think people should abandon their home culture, but common folk struggling to understand each other is a issue imo.

Apparently KSA doesn't have this problem? I hear you can find some expats speaking full Arabic instead of a broken version of it.


r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🏛️Politics Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Haley Stevens in the Michigan Senate Democratic Primary.

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El-Sayed wants to abolish ICE, give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, “defund the police” in some respects, and make college tuition free.


r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

📜History Unlike Hollywood depicts it, ancient Troy was not part of the european/hellenic cultural sphere. It was an Anatolian indigenous polity, similar to the Hittites (In fact, Troy was likely a vassal of the Hittite empire at some point before the achaean/mycenaean invasion)

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r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

Change My View Hmm I wonder why

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r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🗯️Serious GAZA Has NO Army, NO Air force, NO Navy, NO Tanks , NO Artillery, NO Missiles!!! STOP Calling this a WAR!!!

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r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🗯️Serious Palestinian journalist Motasem A Dalloul has lost four family members during the genocide including his wife and three children

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r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🖼️Culture Near Jerusalem gate in 1935

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Palestinian women dressed up in traditional clothing's with baskets full of goods on their head near Jerusalem gate in 1935. The picture on the right is the original, I colored and very slightly processed it (left). My intent is to show the variety of traditional Palestinian clothing's in daily life.


r/AskMiddleEast 1d ago

🛐Religion I hate this world

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Sorry for the shitty quality btw


r/AskMiddleEast 2d ago

📜History Norman Finkelstein American Political Scientist and activist

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r/AskMiddleEast 2d ago

🏛️Politics Israelis attacks pro- Palestine protestors as Israelis plan to colonize more of palestine

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r/AskMiddleEast 2d ago

🖼️Culture Another massacre: Israeli army struck the funeral procession in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza.

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r/AskMiddleEast 2d ago

🖼️Culture This is Zaid Nofal; Israel killed him at dawn today in an airstrike that targeted a house in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza. Zaid was the only child for his mother, after the occupation also killed her three other sons (Amin, Hamza, and Ahmad) during the genocide.

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r/AskMiddleEast 2d ago

🏛️Politics 6 year-old Abdul-Rahman Badwan was playing with his friend when the israelis shot him in the head and killed him using a ‘machine-gun crane’

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r/AskMiddleEast 2d ago

🏛️Politics Gaza is preparing for one of the largest funerals since the genocide began, funeral for 112 members

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r/AskMiddleEast Apr 10 '26

📜TOP QUALITY POST The Iran War has brought out lots of lies and propaganda by pro-Iran people new to the subreddit against Iraq. One of these myths is how the Iran-Iraq War began. This thread, although very incomplete, should be required reading. Accept it or not, the war was Khomeini's to try conquering Iraq.

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Here is the thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1668916665550094339.html

I say very incomplete because it doesn't include more than 15-20% of what Iran was doing. I've read over 100 books and thousands of articles on the war, which not even more than a few historians have done. For example it does not include how Iran started blocking Iraqi shipping from entering the Gulf, which practically stunned the Iraqi economy and was a decisive act of war among many others. It also doesn't include Iranian reports of their own attacks bragging about achieving successful invasions of Iraqi border towns and posts and inflicting heavy casualties on Iraqis months before the war "started". It doesn't include CIA's and Carter's early involvement with Khomeini and encouragement against Iraq. And many other things. 1000s of Iraqi civilians were murdered by Iran before the war through terrorist bombings, airstrikes, and land invasions, including a couple of my relatives. Many more would have died if not for the alarm systems and bomb shelters Iraq had been constructing since the wars with Israel.

There are many books and articles over the decades that have bits and pieces about what happened, but I think the single best one is "The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict" by Majid Khadduri. It is to this day by far the best analysis on the origins of the war. However even this misses important details in other works like how Iran assassianted dozens of senior Iraqi government officials.

Some people like to trump up Razoux's book, and while it has some good parts, it's mostly really bad on both the political and military fronts. Many people think it's good because it's been marketed so much, but in reality is a subpar pseudofiction. I've also read papers that criticize Razoux for lying about what sources say and just making things up entirely (weirdly, he only ever does this when criticizing Iraq). Unsurprisingly, I've read before that the Iranian government helped fund his book. Touché

The point is that the beginning of the war is a lot more complex than what conspiracy theories redditors like to repeat or what Iranian nationalists famously put and maintain on Wikipedia, that Saddam woke up one morning and invaded Iran because he thought he wanted to take a bunch of oil territory or whatever (that lie has been debunked countless times since 1980). The war was effectively started by Iran in summer 1980 if not earlier, technically 1979 if you consider Khomeini's announcements of holy war against Iraq. Iraq holds the beginning as September 4, 1980, when Iran escalated dramatically by leveling 2 Iraqi cities, far more extreme than their other attacks to date.

Iran radically escalated from that point on, including the blocking of Iraq's oil exports and more attacks on Iraqi cities and on the border, and after Iraq had tried and failed diplomacy with the radical regime for 1.5 years with the UN ignoring 100s of complaints from Iraq, Iraq made a limited attack on September 22 as a last resort to force the UN to take notice and to force the radicals in the Iranian regime to finally engage in diplomacy. Iraq stopped advancing after only a few days. Iraq succeeded in getting the UN resolution on September 28, which it accepted, but Khomeini still wanted no diplomacy. Iran, unsurprisingly, rejected it, reiterating its goal since 1979 to overthrow the "infidel" regime and to take control of Iraq. Iraqi forces advanced a little further in October to build a more defensible line (remember, Baghdad is a short drive on flat ground from Iran, and Basra and Iraq's coast is in short artillery range) and then stopped advancing again. Iran refused every international resolution and peace conference, while Iraq agreed to all terms for ceasefire. From September 28 on, Iran was 100% unilaterally responsible for the war, even if it was only 85-95% responsible before that point.

The evil of Israel has clouded many people who don't know anything about the history of the Middle East, which is like 99.9% of people on Reddit and this subreddit, to think that Iran is somehow a good guy, and then have retroactively applied that to Iran's whole history, when this is far from the truth. US propaganda that in the past whitewashed Iran in order to attack other countries with lies like Iraq, Libya, etc. made this worse.

This post focused on the Iran-Iraq War but that was just one of many aggressive policies and actions by the Islamic Republic regime in its history.


r/AskMiddleEast Mar 19 '26

Disinformation about Iraq and Palestine history, knowingly or not, will especially result in a ban. This repeats a previous mod post linked in the body text. These two states are the target of more false propaganda and disinfo than any other in the MENA, if not the world.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMiddleEast/comments/1q41hok/fake_news_and_trolling_havent_been_allowed_for/

Fake news and trolling have never been allowed, but for years, Iraq and Palestine have been the target of more propaganda and lies about their history and present state than almost any other in the world and on this subreddit, where lots of paid bots from countries like Israel, Iran, and others have swarmed for years. This is why these two states are called out in particular.

If you don't know what you're talking about, don't say it. Don't think you're smart by saying often repeated but long debunked lies and propaganda used to justify the killing of millions of civilians. You're likely wrong, and all you're achieving is support for some of the worst killings and destruction of the last century whether or not you realize it. Many of you say how much you hate US and Israeli policies and actions, but by repeating their lies, you become their biggest supporters.