{"id":16350,"date":"2016-01-07T15:15:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=16350"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:51:16","slug":"this-middle-east-ethnic-groups-map-outta-clear-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/this-middle-east-ethnic-groups-map-outta-clear-things-up\/","title":{"rendered":"this Middle East Ethnic Groups map outta clear things up"},"content":{"rendered":"

(click to embiggen)<\/p>\n

\"Mid_East_Ethnic_lg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Errr on second thought, maybe not. Point is, the Middle East like most places is complicated both geographically and ethnically, and therefore understanding the geo-politics can’t be reduced to simple sound-bites and them-vs-us policies.<\/p>\n

[map courtesy of the Gulf\/2000 project<\/a> – be warned if you visit that site you might go down the rabbit hole!]<\/p>\n

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(click to embiggen) Errr on second thought, maybe not. Point is, the Middle East like most places is complicated both geographically and ethnically, and therefore understanding the geo-politics can’t be reduced to simple sound-bites and them-vs-us policies. [map courtesy of the Gulf\/2000 project – be warned if you visit that site you might go down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1002],"series":[],"class_list":["post-16350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuffs","tag-map"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mid_East_Ethnic_lg.png?fit=2040%2C1602&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-4fI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16350"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16464,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350\/revisions\/16464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16350"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=16350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}