Era of Australopithecus, the first...

Syria, Anatolia (modern Turkey), and western Iran become the sites of urban colonies established by Uruk, a city-state on the lower Euphrates River. The well-constructed monumental buildings, regular networks of roads, and enormous settlement walls of...

This timeline tries to compile dates of important historical events that happened in or that lead to the rise of the Middle East. The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman,...

1889 Businessman Fred Ayer builds pulp mill in South Brewer. 1895 Papermaking begins at South Main Street mill. 1914 Ayer's Brewer plant merges with Katahdin Pulp and Paper Co. of Lincoln. 1916 Eastern Electro-Chemical Co. was organized. 1921 Eastern Manufacturing...

Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within, Edited by Moshe Ma'oz and Ilan Pappe. London and New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 1997. 236 pages, with notes and index. $59.50, hardcover. When Albert Hourani died on January 17, 1993, at the...