Outside the Middle East, West Africa and parts of Russia, most of the easily accessible reservoirs have been sucked nearly dry.
On the one hand, she liked the idea of a memorial to the war because it implied the conflict could have an end but, on the other, she had always been wary of judgmental "black-and-white" attitudes to the Middle East in the West.
In spite of this rejection, these places do not mind being put in the Middle East, though viewed from, say, the Far East they are really in the Middle West, which everyone knows is in America, or rather the United States, as others in the western hemisphere like to call it.
Moscow's decision represents its latest break with fellow Middle East mediators in the West who've blocked aid funding to the Palestinians since Hamas took over the government.
Al-Jazeera admits Web use is lower in the Middle East than in the West, but now that it has established a beachhead, it is anxious to tout the benefits of advertising to what it claims is an affluent audience.
And it sort of got lost this week, and nobody has asked about it, but the United States dropped its demand that Israel freeze its settlements in the Middle East -- on the West Bank.
Powell said a reduction of violence in the Middle East would boost economic activity in the West Bank and Gaza.
Will Honeybourne, a First Reserve managing director in Houston who helped spearhead the deal--and beat out rival buyout shop Candover--notes that Abbot's rig-building and operating subsidiaries Bentec and KCA Deutag are particularly strong in Russia, West Africa, the Middle East and Libya.
It's a scene more reminiscent of the Middle East, rather than the London's West End.
Obama's turn as tourist capped a four-day visit to the Middle East that included stops in Israel and the West Bank, as well Jordan.
Nigerians from elsewhere point out that the oil industry was originally devloped with money earned from groundnuts from the north, coal from the east, tin from the middle belt and cocoa from the west.
With one foot in the West and the other in the Middle East, Turkey was able to mediate between Lebanon's rival factions, between Iraq's Shias and Sunnis, and between Israel and Syria (until Israel's 2009 assault against Gaza).
The company was founded in 1976 and has operational bases in the UK, Middle East, the Netherlands, Caspian Sea, Brazil, West Africa and the Gulf Coast of the United States.
French Ambassador Pierre Vimont told members of the Middle East Institute at a recent luncheon that he thinks the West needs to recognize Iran's growing political influence in the region.
West Africa, East Africa, North America, the Middle East or Australasia, you name it.
Tony Blair has urged the West to develop a coherent strategy across the Middle East as the Arab spring continues.
When Rumaila's deposits were discovered, it was the second-biggest oilfield in the Middle East, if measured together with its adjacent sister field at West Qurna.
The ethylene boom has not inspired plans for much new capacity in the West, but East Asia and, especially, the Middle East are a different story.
Still, some American allies in Europe and the Middle East worry that the U.S.'s and the West's message to Iran has been muddled since Mr. Obama's re-election in November.
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The 36-year-old is the youngest member of the executive committee of football's world governing body and is also president of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF), which covers the Middle East. region.
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While some of the bonds will be bought by investors in the West, Asian central banks and sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East will also likely buy large amounts of the new bonds issued by the United States and European nations to help pay for their bailouts.
His death comes a week before US President Barack Obama is due to visit Israel and the West Bank, but with little optimism of a resumption of the Middle East peace talks which collapsed in 2010, our correspondent adds.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- The future of the Middle East entered a new era of uncertainty Thursday, as the militant Palestinian opposition group Hamas snatched power from the ruling old guard and made skeptics of many key players in the peace process.
Many of the music clips - like those in the West - are selling sex in a way that is new to the Middle East.
Committed to distributing the LuminAID light throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, Sreshta and Stork have factored in those costs into the lights sold in the West.
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In 1994, Israel and the PLO signed a historic agreement giving Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip their first measure of freedom since the 1967 Middle East war.
Bruised by its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and concentrating on the threat of religious extremism, the West is often blind to the many forms of Islam practised in the Middle East.
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