Outside the Middle East, West Africa and parts of Russia, most of the easily accessible reservoirs have been sucked nearly dry.
The problem is we, many Muslims who leave the Middle East for the West, thinking they are being protected, we discover, when we're in America, we are not protected, because radical Islam follows us here.
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.
The Middle East fell behind the West because it failed to produce commercial institutions most notably joint-stock companies that were capable of mobilising large quantities of productive resources and enduring over time.
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.
Israel enraged Palestinians on Wednesday when the government approved the first stage of plans to build 6, 500 housing units on Jabal Abu Ghneim, known by Israelis as Har Homa, in east Jerusalem on land captured by Israel along with the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war.
The dishonesty caused the loss of thousands of lives without in any way assuaging the terrorist threat, bringing peace to the Middle East, or securing the West's oil supplies.
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.
Countries in the West and the Middle East have been critical of the al-Assad regime but have not intervened militarily.
To do this it requires that Arabs deny the suffering of the Middle East at the hands of the West and pass blame to the Jews.
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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.
The U.S.-backed policy of spreading the democratic process to the Middle East is far from bringing about results the West would want.
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.
What makes this case all the more egregious is that this doctrine-Shariah-also happens to be the underlying legal and military doctrine animating jihad against the West by Muslims from the Middle East, Asia, Russia, Africa, and even right here at home.
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).
Unlike the West or even places like the Middle East, though, much of the new wealth being created in Asia is emerging in countries where rich people see their assets at risk, either because of unreliable governments or unloved ones.
The president has been the West's necessary man in the Middle East for 30 years.
Where the west is certain of success in its middle east endeavors, Russia is certain of their failure.
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.
MOREOVER, SINCE the paradigm claims that the non-Western world's grievances towards the West are legitimate, Obama's Middle East policy is based on the view that the best way to impact the Arab world is by joining its campaign against Israel.
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.
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