EGYPT AND THE MIDDLE EAST

Topics include the pyramids and the Sphinx Egyptian gods, the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom, Hatshepsut, Akhenaton, the tomb of Tutankhamen, Phoenicia and Israel, Alxander the Great the Middle East and the Roman Empire, Chrisitianity, the Golden Age of Islam, the Crusades, the Turks, the Ottoman Empire, the World Wars and the Middle East, the mandate system, Israel, oil, Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein and Desert Storm, the PLO and Israel, the U.S. and the Middle East, and the Arab Spring.