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Egypt Expels Turkey’s Ambassador, Further Fraying Diplomatic Ties. Opinions: Mashriq-Maghrib: The Land of the Rising Sun and the Land of the Setting Sun<br>By Sondos Elgatit. "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" is one of Kipling's most quoted lines.

Opinions: Mashriq-Maghrib: The Land of the Rising Sun and the Land of the Setting Sun<br>By Sondos Elgatit

While the fact that what Americans refer to as the 'Far East' is actually just off their West Coast shows that 'East' and 'West' are not geographic realities, but political and cultural terms, it also exemplifies the power of the concept of East versus West. But a simplistic opposition between East and West is challenged by the multiplicity of 'Easts' and 'Wests' in such pairings as East and West Africa, Eastern Europe and Western Europe, and the East and West coasts of the US. In the Arab world East and West meet in Egypt which defies categorization and belongs to both the Mashriq (land of the rising sun) and the Maghrib (land of the setting sun), both regions defined in relation to this country has it is the 'beating heart of the Arab world'.

Maghreb/Mashreq - EU Jargon - E!Sharp. Imagining a Remapped Middle East. A different map would be a strategic game changer for just about everybody, potentially reconfiguring alliances, security challenges, trade and energy flows for much of the world, too.

Imagining a Remapped Middle East

Syria’s prime location and muscle make it the strategic center of the Middle East. But it is a complex country, rich in religious and ethnic variety, and therefore fragile. The Mashreq Maghreb Project. Welcome to the Middle East Institute.