By David Seddon
This reference quantity is the definitive consultant to the economics and politics of the center East. It offers transparent definitions detailing phrases, innovations, names and businesses utilized in relation to present fiscal or political opinions within the center East. Entries outline, clarify and provides additional appropriate info on international locations, areas, ethnic teams, political events, firms, rules and disputes.
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In the following month one of the leaders of the opposition to British control of Iran’s oil, Mohammed Mossadegh, became Prime Minister. The AIOC was called upon to close its operations and evacuate its personnel. The repercussions of Iran’s nationalization of its oil company were far-reaching. In 1953 the Shah of Iran fled into exile, only to return after a US-engineered counter-coup removed Mossadegh from power. A political and economic dictionary of the middle east 38 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922 Protectorate treaty, signed in 1922 and ratified in 1924, giving Iraq partial independence, but leaving Great Britain with economic and military control over the country.
Ahmed, Hocine Aït Born in 1919. A key Algerian nationalist leader, who founded the Front de libération nationale (National Liberation Front) and began the eight-year war of independence against France. After Algeria achieved independence in 1962, he strongly opposed the ruling faction of Ahmed Ben Bella. Having been sentenced to death for opposition activities, Hocine was subsequently pardoned and escaped to France. In 1999 he stood as a presidential candidate in Algeria, but later withdrew his candidacy in opposition to political fraud.
A political and economic dictionary of the middle east 22 Al-Ahbash The Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (Jami’at al-Mashari’ al-Khayriya alIslamiyya), known as al-Ahbash (‘the Ethiopians’), is a pan-Sufi organization, an activist expression of the Sufi (spiritualist) movement (with roots in Egypt and Lebanon). It has almost 8,000 members. One of the most controversial and interesting of contemporary Islamic groups, due to its origins, its eclectic theological roots, and its teachings, which do not fit the conventional Islamist mould.