middle east

What would it take for the major Muslim countries, run by Islamist or Islamist-friendly governments, to create a Pan-Islamist bloc that can at least challenge (probably not outright win in a total war, more like win in a proxy war) the other major alliances like the Warsaw Pact/Comintern and...

Could this role reverse happen and if it does ? What are the biggest consequences ?

Ok i just find this quote about Ben Gurion on the idea of accepting a partition of mandatory Palestine and it got me thinking what if the Palestinian leaders in 1947 had the same line of thinking ? Possibly realising more Israel military superiority over them and the weakness of the...

A little clickbaits title but was his the best case scenario for Zahir al-Umar state in what his southern Levant ?

What would a world be like if the Middle East devolved into a bunch of city states. For some reason the aesthetics of this appeal to me. Think of like asoiaf free cities PODs can range from ancient times to 1900. Just imagine Susa was still a thing or maybe Carthage states. Or Baghdad and...

As someone of Jewish heritage and a history major who's studied the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I've always wondered what would happen if there were no plans for a state of Israel located in Palestine and the Jews could not end up there. Kind of a follow-up/opposite side of the...

During the brief time Nasser's United Arab Republic existed, there was a movement in Lebanon that advocated for uniting with the UAR, but it was quashed in 1958 after the United States intevened in the country. WI Washington didn't listen to president Camille Chamoun's plea for assistance for...

What if Jordanian king Hussein suffered the fate of his cousin, Faisal of Iraq, and was toppled by a military coup the same year (1958) that established a republic? Would keeping Suleiman Nabulsi, who pushed for closer ties with Nasserist Egypt, as prime minister (he was removed in 1957 after...

Jesus isn't born in 4 B.C., What religion(s) are anatolia and arabia for the next millennium? Is it Roman polytheism, one of the cults (probably Mithraism or Cybele), Zoroastrianism, or even Buddhism? And when the Turks start invading what religion do they choose to join in the absence of Islam?

What if theier was no 1948 expulsion of Palestinians. What would the effects on the future of the Middle East be?

There are a bunch of threads discussing how plausible and what PODs are needed for the United Arab Republic to survive, but AFAIK none about if the union could've survived a war against Israel, something that seems almost inevitable given the OTL Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. Assuming the...

What if large scale oil desposts were discoverd in the Middle East during 1920 and exports of oil makes up majority of the econmic activity of the region and Middle Eastern oil exports are of geopolitical significance by 1939. Also the technology to extract Middle Eastern oil depots is know by...

Assyria had been under various foreign powers for a while after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and never regained its independence ever since. So right after the year 1000, is it possible for Assyria to regain its independence? At that time the Assyrian population hasn't gone through the...

OK, it's my 1st time trying something like this. Some quick background -- I've recently read Iron Tigers, a middle part of a technothriller trilogy: The 1st book of the trilogy (never read it) was written in 1996 and had Saddam allying with Iran (WTF?) and using chemical weapons in an effort...

Let's say the government of Adnan Menderes isn't so obviously authoritarian (maybe he doesn't incite the Istanbul Pogrom, for example) and the military allows him and the Democrat Party to stay in power. What would be the effects of that? I assume the 1971 and 1980 coups are butterflied, for...

The Ottoman Empire was the dominate empire in the Middle East (Besides Iran), that controlled the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, and the Caliph. As it's grip on the Balkans and Africa collapsed because of European Powers, it maintained a hold on the Middle East until WWI in the 20th Century...

What will be the consequence of the Middle East being divided between the Ottoman (with them only holding Anatolia in the Middle East but still the Balkan) the Mamluks (with Egypt the levant and the Hejaz) and the Safavids with their OTL lands + Mesopotamia and possibly them managing to keep...

the challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have a pluralistic democracy consisting of a union between syria and iraq by the year 1960.

Your challenge is for the Fertile Plan to be enacted (Jordan,Syria,Lebanon and Iraq ) to be united then to have an Italy that changes sides but that it can have better terms with the Allies. For the first I think a British ship that wasn't sunk by Vichy OTL could instead be actually sunk (I...

The other day I read about the Iran Crisis of 1946. What if things turned out differently and the country was split into a Northern Communist part and a non-Communist Southern part? Would the split last? Would there come a proxy war? Does the 1979 Revolution (or something similar) still happen...