Lawrence Arabia

     Another trait of a tragic hero that Lean depicts Lawrence of having is a tragic flaw. Lawrence’s tragic flaw is quite obvious in this biography, it is simply that he believes he can make Arabia an independent state. Little does Lawrence know, because it would seem almost impossible to make all of Arabia agree under one government. Lawrence is displayed as a tragic hero who’s only wish is to promote the miracle of Arabian independence. He tries to show the world as well as the British that the Arabians are worthy of independence on a number of occasions. First, he takes fifty warriors from Prince Feisel across the Nefud Desert to Aqaba to take it from land where the Turks would not expect it. Lawrence does this to show everyone that the Arabians are not worthless and deserve and independent state. To the amazement of everyone he makes it across the Nefud Desert and takes Aqaba with the help of a local tribe. Another incident(s) of Lawrence trying to prove the worth of the Arabians is the ambushing of trains. In order to prove the worth of the Arabians, Lawrence tries to involve them in the ambushing of trains, to prove they can survive on their own. To his dismay, the Arabians show him just what is going to happen when, after they loot the trains and take everything they need, they go home.

During the mid 1900’s Britain and France had to give up mandates which allowed Middle Eastern countries to gain their independance.

During the war England promised all of these countries in the middle east region their own land and country to get them on their side. However, when the war ended the English realized how hard it would be to follow through on every promise so they just made a few countries grouping different types of people together. This will cause problems later in time because the people who were grouped together in these new countries did not want to be together since they can not identify with each other. This will cause these countries to receive a lot of pushing back from their people, wanting separate

In the Husayn/McMahon Correspondence, the Arabs promised that if the England sees Arab countries in a designated areas as independent, then they are allowed to economic interests as well as military and naval prospects. The British agree to see these Arab states independent except for all places controlled by the French. The winners in this agreement were the British because when Husayn disagreed with McMahon’s decision to protect French interests as well as the in Baghdad and Basra, McMahon passed on this part of the discussion for the later talks. Therefore Hysayn, the Arabs, are at a loss because they need the support of the British in order to be victorious in their

The damning picture of the state of the Arab world painted in this UN report cannot be blamed on America, or Israel, or global capitalism. The blame lies squarely with the dictators under whom the Arab people have suffered, who have over a long period stolen and squandered the region's wealth, just as Communist apparatchiks did under the Soviet system.

Britain and France promised the Turks that they could have the land that they promised to the Arabs. This caused the Arabs to revolt again, but unfortunately they were too weak to defeat the British and French and they were repressed (Brower 86). Along with the struggle of repression as a whole, there were political and social conflicts among the different religious and ethnic groups in each small

Lawrence exhibited his innovative leadership during the attack on Aqaba as he depleted the Ottoman defenses, therefore bolstering the Allied Powers. Aqaba was a strategic location that provided essential resources for Turkish troops in Northwestern Arabia. “Lawrence later wrote that A[q]aba’s ‘special value to the Turks was that, in their hands, it might, when they pleased, be constituted as a threat on the right flank of the British army’” (Wilson 398). Just as Aqaba was valuable for the Allies, it could also prove to be detrimental to the British, given its location near their Suez Canal forces. While searching for access to the Aqaba-Ma'an supply route and having made significant progress toward Aqaba, Lawrence encountered Auda abu Tayi. Lawrence recognized Auda’s unique situation in

The actions of World War I had inconceivable consequences for the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. World War I marked the end of the, already dwindling, Empire and its scope of influence on the world. With this collapse, the Middle East fell into the hands of the British and the Allied forces who arbitrarily divided up the the region to create new nation states. Nations are large aggregates of people who have imagined sovereign rights, commonality, and political community with myths and history that create unity. Instability within the Ottoman Empire helped provide a path for local and international actors to influence the shaping of the region. Among many missteps and political choices there were three distinct players that profoundly

Edward Said within his article highlights how most Americans perceive the Arab world to be. Said delves deeper into how control and power catalyze countries to make preconceived notions about each

This picture demonstrates Westernized culture forcing a weaker country to learn their customs and words. The theme of imperialism is shown in this picture because it is a larger power taking over and controlling a less powerful people. The main conflicts in this book originate mostly in the work of modern Imperialism. Marjane’s father says, “In any case, as long as there is oil in the Middle East, we will never have peace” (Satrapi 43). He is referring to all the nations, such as Iraq, trying to take their oil away from them because Iran is weaker.

To fully understand the driving force behind Lawrence’s eventual devotion to the Arab nationalist cause first requires a probe into his educational and military backgrounds. Lawrence attended the Jesus College in Oxford where he pursued his lifelong interests in medieval warfare and archaeology and eventually wrote his senior thesis on Crusader Castles. By the summer of 1909, Lawrence had toured England, Wales, and France and visited each Crusader Castle in those regions. He then undertook an arduous personal quest to visit every Crusader castle of significance located in Palestine and Syria. Because Lawrence undertook this journey in the heat of summer, the difficulties he encountered made him keenly aware of strategical problems associated with waging a war in a desert terrain that would help him years later during the Arab Revolt. It also began his

The Middle East is far from monumental and homogenous. Its differences have been a source of both strength and inspiration. The most visible, most pervasive, and the least recognized aspects of

A Thematic Analysis about Wells as a Source of Dispute among the Bedouins in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

What are the underlying factors, cultural differences, and outside intervention leading up to the current hostilities between Yemen and Saudi Arabia today? To answer some of these fundamental questions, I will use the relevant aspects of the five core ideas about the social conflict which are championed by Louis Kriesberg and Bruce Dayton’s book “Constructive Conflicts.” Kriesberg and Dayton posit that that social conflicts are universal, and can be beneficial; social conflicts are waged with varying destructiveness; social conflicts entail contested social constructions; social conflicts can be transformed, and that social conflicts are dynamic and tend to move through stages.

Middle East considers one of the most studied areas in the world due to its rich history of politics, social, economic, and its culture and civilization. Its borders are still arguable geographically, generally in the west it starts from morocco until Iran in the east, however, many scholars don’t agree on including Turkey either as a Middle Eastern or as a European country (Milton-Edwards, 2006. P: 4). The origin of the name was invented by the colonies as a necessity to describe the place geographically, which was the era of bringing “Middle East” the language of academic writings and political scientists. Changes, innovations, and new ideologies create gaps between the transformations of any perspectives to a different