... to avoid military service. Today, most of the people think about immigration to improve themselves economically. Due to the poor economic conditions of less developed countries, like those of the Middle East there is a large number of Arabs who immigrate in search of better jobs and better living conditions in countries like the United States of America. Anayat Durrani, a freelance journalist, explains ... of unemployment in the sending or native countries. Many believe that one of the main reasons for the Arab immigration to the U.S. is the presence of many wars in the Middle East. For...

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... , prosperous places, are usually good places to develop permanent settlements; this especially true for the Nile River valley. The Nile River has an interesting location. It is located in North East Africa, by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The Nile River is one of the few rivers that flow north, into the Mediterranean Sea. It also passes through the Sahara Desert ... valley is a flood plain, and is able to grow wheat, oats, grains, and papyrus, and because of the abundance and bounty of Egypt, became a cultural hub with people in the Middle East. It was a place not only to buy and tra...

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... conquest of Egypt, invaded Cairo, and within 48 hours, Egypt fell, leaving the land open to Napoleon's goals of establishing trade in raw materials and manufactured French goods in the Middle East. With this, over a century of foreign rule, control, and influence by European powers in the Nile River Valley begins. While the economically driven goals of French occupation in Egypt were ... ...

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