... would seem like that would be the case. What one can tend to do is solely blame it on religion; which is often the case. Looking at Middle Eastern states such as Saudi Arabia and Iran; it would be easy to say that Islam paints a picture of gender inequality from a broad perspective. In Saudi ... back the argument up. It could be argued that there are other factors behind the reason why the rate of gender inequality has been high in Middle Eastern countries. State ideology can make a difference such as in Turkey when Ataturk made state reforms which would affect gender in Turkey. Habib Bou...

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... agency conflict, which led to such a reversal of attitudes following the revolution. THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION Iran, at the head of the Persian Gulf and stretching along its northern and eastern shores, has long served the western powers as a barrier against Russian ambitions toward the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Peninsula. In the nineteeenth century Persia, as Iran was formerly ... as the spiritual leader of the Islamic Republican Party, a party fundamentally opposed to western influence, and American influence in particular. On November 4th 1979, the U.S. embassy was seized and America...

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