Prior to 1948, Jewish communties were found discontinuously in an area stretching from southwest Asia across North Africa, from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Afghanistan in the east to Morocco in...

Learn about the different cultures that make up Africa and the Middle East. Using this alphabetical list, click on a specific group of people and read information about their culture, history, economy, sociopolitical organization, and...

Essay considers the long history of antipathy to Jews and Judaism.

Essay considers hostility to Muslims and Islam from an historical perspective.

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Bedu, known as the Bedouin to Westerners, people of the Middle East. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life,...

This site has a very interesting description of the Crusades from an objective viewpoint. Read about the impact of Christian-Muslim conflict in the Middle East during this period. Original text from that time is also included.

In an effort to educate on the Middle East and Islam, MEPC offers this thorough resource featuring Egypt.

This site describes the wide variety of settlers who came to East Jersey. They came from many different countries and religions.

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Druze people in the Middle East. Gives basic facts about location, language, folklore, foods, social customs, family life, education, religion, pastimes, societal...

The Ganda are a group of people who live in the province of Buganda in Uganda. The Ganda are primarily an agricultural society; their staple crops are bananas and yams. Cotton was introduced as a market crop early in the twentieth...

Sleb camps are currently small and scattered, sometimes even consisting of a single family, with one or two tents. In the nineteenth century, however, camps of fifteen to twenty-five tents, with twenty to thirty families per tent, were...

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of the Druze people from the Middle East. (Note: Content is not the most current.)

The Baha'i faith originated from one of the sects within the Shiite Muslim religion in Iran. The Baha'i religion developed directly from the Babis, an extremely militant sect willing to die to convert the people of the world to their...

This site provides you with the nature of Islamic law and all of the major aspects of it. Excellent reference for basic Islamic terms.

Ethnically, the Turks are a cultural group united by a common language, but the term "Turk" has no clearly defined racial significance; it can be properly applied to those communities historically and linguistically connected to the...

The Shona-speaking peoples comprise about 80 percent of the population of Zimbabwe, with significant groups in Mozambique. Most of what follows applies to the Shona in Zimbabwe, who have been extensively studied. There are now around...

The Samaritans are a sect numbering about 500 who currently reside in Nablus, on the west bank of the Jordan River in Israeli-occupied Jordan, and in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. The Samaritans call...

A series of short biographies on major figures in Islam and the Islamic world such as Muhammad, Saladin and others.

The ethnic identity of this Iranian minority group is derived from their religion, Zoroastrianism. They constitute only 0.18 percent of the Iranian population. The term "Zoroastrian" is taken from the name of their prophet Zarathushtra...

This site focuses on the country of Zulu in South Africa. It includes location, population, history and cultural relations, Kinship and Sociopolitical Organization, and religion.

The Copts of Egypt are a religious minority (numbering about 6 million in Egypt) whose church they believe to have been founded by Saint Mark the Evangelist. The Coptic church is the ancient church of Egypt. Outside of Egypt, Coptic...

This site focuses on the country of Yako including their history, culture, location, and more.

The Mossi are the most prominent ethnic group in the modern nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). They are also well known in the anthropological literature as a society with an especially high rate of labor migration to...

Throughout their history, the vast majority of Jews have lived in large cities and market towns. They lived in neighborhoods that were largely Jewish, but in most cities they had neighbors who adhered to other religions. Preference was...