Is Libya considered a Middle Eastern country or simply African? ?
Escrito el 9 de January del 2009 por smith.I would classify the ME as incorporating the following countries: Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Israel (Palestine), Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman and Yemen.
Interesting question. While it is certainly North Africa one might point out that Egypt is also but no one would dispute Egypt being a "Middle Eastern" country.
There is a rather nice Wikipedia article at the link that follows.
Interestingly it has this quote in it:
"The Eisenhower Doctrine, a 1957 foreign policy of the United States government, was the first to officially use the term Middle East.[9] Secretary of State John Foster Dulles defined the Middle East as "the area lying between and including Libya on the west and Pakistan on the east, Syria and Iraq on the North and the Arabian peninsula to the south, plus the Sudan and Ethiopia."[9] In 1958, the State Department explained that the terms "Near East" and "Middle East" were interchangeable, and defined the region as including only Egypt, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.[13]"
So on the one hand Libya is explicitly included as "Middle Eastern" but is later implicitly excluded.
The article makes it clear that "Middle East" has no clearly defined borders. I would say that most people that think of Arabs as "Middle Eastern" would include Libya as a "Middle Eastern" country.
Purely on a location level, Africa.
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