1. Southwest
Asia/North
Africa
Natalia Dávila
Diana Martínez
Lorena Elizondo
Andrés López

2. Introduction
Climate Culture
Oil Religion
Adaptation
Politics Petroleum
Extremists
Water

3. Environmental Geography:
Life in a Fragile World

4. Hydro politics in
the Jordan River
Basin
“water resources and politics”

7. Population and Settlement:
Patterns in an Arid Land

8. Geography of Population
 Less than two-thirds of the overall
population urban.

9. Maghreb Mediterranean
Israel
Lebanon
Syria
Turkey
Better-watered
coastal districts

10. Water and Life
 Domestication
 Pastoral nomadism
 Exotic rivers:
 Nile
 Tigris
 Euphrates

11. The Urban Imprint
 Centers Political Religious Authority
 Focal point-trade.

12.  Beirut
 Tyre
 Sidon
 Damascus in
nearby Syria

13. Saudi Arabian population more
urban than many industrialized
nations, including United States.

14. Colonial Legacy

15. Arab-Israeli conflict

16. Iraq

17. Economy

18. Regional Economic
Patterns.

19. Higher-Income Oil Exporters.

20. Lower-Income Oil Exporters.
North Africa
Algeria Libya

21. Prospering without Oil.

22. Regional Patterns of Poverty.
A Woman’s Changing World.

23. Global Economic
Relationships
- OPEC’s Changing Fortunes.
- Regional and International Linkages