Middle Eastern theatre of World War I Puns

Title says is it all - please Verdun/ Tannenberg creators, make a standalone Gallipoli / Middle Eastern theatre

could include

- Gallipoli campaign

- Arab revolt

- etc etc

WILL BE SO AWESOME.. include cavalry!

I checked and there’s barely anything on the subject besides movies such as the African Queen which are way too romanized. The African Campaign was fought in all of the German colonies and the surrounding allied ones mostly. The Pacific theater through many German pacific colonies and German and Austro-Hungarian treaty ports. The middle eastern campaign was the Ottoman Empire vs the allies and Persia vs the British and Russians. If anyone could find any movies or tv shows about those events that would be amazing.

Hello, r/islam!

First and foremost, if this post is not allowed in this subreddit, please let me know, but I did not see anything against it in the community rules.

As the title states, I am writing a research paper on the portrayal of Islam and Muslims in the American mainstream media, specifically with how those portrayals have been affected and shaped in the aftermath of the events on 9/11. I have conducted considerable research into this subject using many academic resources, as well as through multiple news outlets, such as CNN, ABC, Fox, C-SPAN, BBC, and others, in order to avoid one-sided biased opinions, and to gather as many varying perspectives as I can.

For the final piece for my paper, I would really like to get some opinions on those who are actually affected by these portrayals, the practicing Muslims of the world. For anyone that doesn't mind participating, I thank you kindly for your time and personal experiences!

Firstly, the idea of Americans distrusting people that are different from them, whether in terms of religion, race, or politics, is certainly not a new one. This has been proven time and time again throughout the course of American history, with cases such as:

• The massacring of Native Americans during the colonization of America
• The capturing of African people and subsequent enslavement
• The discrimination of Irish refugees immigrating to the United States in the mid-1800's
• The segregation of free black Americans and the continued racism they still face today

Since 9/11, and especially in the past decade, there has been an evident shift in the focus of America's prejudice towards Muslims, citizens of Middle Eastern countries, and even American-born citizens of Middle Eastern descent. While these prejudices certainly do not represent America as a whole, there exists enough Islamophobia in the US to raise great concern on the issue. So my questions for you (those of you that have stuck with me this far) are:

1. Do you view the overall depictions of Muslims in the American mainstream media to be misrepresentational of your actual beliefs? Do you see mostly negative stereotypes being portrayed, or positive, factual representations?
2. Have you ever been personally prejudiced or attacked due to your beliefs? If so, do you believe widespread misinformation through the media is, at least partially, to blame? Did the incident negatively affect your own opinions on the the culture, religion, or people of your attacker?

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Indian/Middle Eastern/ Asian British citizens or families living in England during 1939 to 1945?

And if so, is there any further information or sources on this?

Your telling me that the Easterlings and Haradin aren't based off of real cultures in real life because they definitely draw influence from cultures of the East. So since we got a black guy will there be other races because I sure don't recall any race of men that remotely resemble African culture or influence. Also men described as dark and swarthy does not mean they are "black". Very little of Tolkein work mention literally nothing about anybody that resemble sub Saharan african culture even remotely. Also the easterlings and haradins were also followers of sauron but I beat they won't see any of them in the game because of PC
bs. Yet we got a random black guy who is hell out of place in gondor the guy would more likely be serving sauron than be a gondor soldier LOL.

I'm very noob'ish at this but I read the subreddit a bit to get the understanding.
We are a family of 3 (two parents, small kid), but have other relatives as well. We got a shelter. What else should I prepare for 2-3 weeks without electricity, running water and supplies?
Practical lists or items would be great!
Thank a lot

EDIT: Thanks for all the great advices! I'll write and update here a list of items I'm going to stock first:

96 litre of water (logic: ±3 litres per person per day, 96 should be enough for 10 days)
24 tuna cans
24 corn cans
24 bean cans
Nuts and dry fruit (should think of quantity)
Rice and pasta
Sugar
Salt
Olive oil
Small Solar Panel
Portable burner
7 lighters
7 match-boxes
AAA & AA batteries (not sure how much)
3 flashlights
Moist towelettes, garbage bags and plastic ties
Wrench or pliers
Manual can opener for food
First aid kit: alcohol, ibuprofen, antibiotics?, hand sanitiser Gas for the car?

The general process of how the Islamosphere (technical term for ‘Muslim world’) went from its Golden Age in the 9th-13th centuries, to being considered largely as compiled of ‘Third World’ countries by the Cold War, generally follows this progression:

1. Raids and plagues, both brought on by the Mongols’ rapid expansion westward in the 13th century, both destroyed the centers of higher learning in both Baghdad and Cairo, as well as weakened central governmental rule, and led to the death of many. The Mongols however never invaded Europe past only some of the Eastern parts (parts of modern day Poland, Hungary, Turkey, etc), so Western Europe was given the time to be able to catch up to speed with the rest of the world in terms of advancing civilization in technology, knowledge, warfare, and medicine. The only reason the Mongols never invaded Western Europe was due to the fact that there literally were countless people who kept telling them along their advance westward that “nothing of value” to raid existed past the Byzantine Empire- which literally was true, as the largest city in Western Europe at the time was by far Rome, with only 50,000 residents, while even small-sized cities elsewhere in the world in the 13th century were at least twice if not more times the size of that (this reflected a lack of urban centers with commerce in Western Europe, with significant trade routes only really trading wool, and not even starting up until the mid 13th Century or so).

2. Both the loss of strong centralized governments, and the loss of prominent centers of learning in the Islamosphere, led to a rise in religious schisms (non traditional centers of learning replaced the former centralized canonical Islamic universities, a la the advent of Sufi lodges, and the emergence of a multitude of local madrasas that taught slightly differing interpretations of Islam), led to a decline in ‘secular’ knowledge (the sciences, mathematics, and medicine to name a few), and led to a rise in regional conflicts between former neighbors over control of smaller territories (which only further weakened the Islamosphere).

3. A rise sectarianism follows the rise of a multitude of regional centers of Islamic learning, leading to the final stages of the hardened split between what Shia beliefs and Sunni beliefs were/are defined as; this in turn of course, you guessed it, only further divided the Ummah.

4. Since the Islamosphere was set back a couple hundred years in the progress

By James M. Dorsey

A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spreaker, Pocket Casts, Tumblr, Podbean, Audecibel, Patreon and Castbox.

Mass anti-government protests in several Arab countries are turning into competitions to determine who has the longer breath, the protesters or the government.

In Algeria, Lebanon and Iraq, countries in which the leader was either forced to resign or has agreed to step down, authorities appear to be dragging their feet on handovers of power or agreed transitional power sharing arrangements in the hope that protesters, determined to hold on to their street power until a political transition process is firmly in place, either lose their momentum or are racked by internal differences.

So far, protesters are holding their ground, having learnt the lesson that their achievements are likely to be rolled back if they vacate the street before having cemented an agreement on the rules of the transitional game and process.

Algerians remain on the streets, seven months after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was forced to step down, in demand of a complete change of the political system.

Scores of recent arrests on charges that include “harming national unity” and “undermining the morale of the army” have failed to deter Algerians who refuse to accept the military’s proposed December 12 date for elections.

Lebanon enters its second months of protests with the government going through the motions but ultimately failing to respond to demands for a technocratic government, a new non-sectarian electoral law and early elections.

An effort to replace prime minister Saad Hariri with another member of the elite, Mohammad Safadi, a billionaire businessman and former finance minister, was rejected by the protesters.

"We are staying here. We don't know how long - maybe one or two months or one or two years. Maybe it will take 10 years to get the state we are dreaming of, but everything starts with a first step." said filmmaker Perla Joe Maalouli.

Weeks after agreeing to resign in response to popular pressure, Iraqi prime minister Adil Abdul Mehdi appears to be increasingly firm in his saddle.

Much like what prompted US President George H.W.. Bush to first call in 1991 for a popular revolt against Saddam Hussein and then give the Iraqi strongman the tools to crush the uprising, Mr. Mehdi is holding on to power in the absence of a credible candidate acceptabl

I’m wondering if they thought once they killed Saddam and Osama Bin Ladin, Iraq and Afghanistan would just be peace and democracy and extremely pro-American. I’m wondering why did the leaders back then lack so much foresight? What were their strategy overall and how did they think the events would play out?

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As the title says, I'm a 19 year old bass with a vocal range of A1-C4. Ever since joining High School theatre I have loved acting and singing in musicals, but my limited range always prohibited me from getting singing roles in shows. I'm a good actor, so I've gotten a number of smaller, character roles over the years, and I've always loved it so much, but I'd really like to be able to sing lead and larger roles.

I've been taking voice lessons for over a year now, I switched voice teachers fairly recently as my Old Teacher seemed unable to come up with any plan to get some good quality high notes out of me. My new teacher is much more experienced, he's a wonderful, resonant baritone himself, and he came highly recommended by some of my MT friends who are excellent singers. However, even he seems a bit stumped about what to do with me.

I'd just like to post an example of me trying to sing two of the most bass musical theatre songs out there, and maybe get some more insight about what I'm doing wrong and if it's even possible for me to get those higher notes.

Here is a sound cloud link to me attempting to sing the song Old Man River from Showboat. Please note I'm not used to singing this song with a karaoke track at this tempo and low volume, so I'm getting a bit off, but it's still a good example of my voice.

https://soundcloud.com/user-868044902/recording-218

Here is an attempt at Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific

https://soundcloud.com/user-868044902/some-enchanted-evening

All of these songs are pretty much as far in the basement as Musical theatre goes, and yet, as you can tell, whenever I have to start going up closer to that C, (and every MT song does) my voice becomes strained and thin, and I can't get much above the C even with a strained high voice so what does it matter?

Is there any hope for me? I know I have a very low range, does that mean I just won't ever be able to sing above a middle C? How can I go higher, and maintain good voice quality? And what about mixed voice? I haven't the slightest idea how to start mixing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What 2nd or 3rd world country do you think Bitcoin/crypto could make rich and transform, the same way oil made a handful of middle eastern counties rich?

Could it happen in less than a decade or so?

The title is self-explanatory: wars that are fought in multiple theatres (land and sea) or on multiple fronts! I'll go first,

This "war" (really two connected conflicts) is one of the most important historical events in my story and also the setting of a few prequel novellas.

Warning: I admit I kinda went stream of consciousness on this and it is v long and potential convoluted. I apologize in advance.

Background:

These two conflicts occurred roughly 400 years prior to the events of the main story. Up until this point, the Sunshya Empire (kind of Elves) was the dominant force on the content and nearly unmatched in its military might. They had conquered the nascent human settlements to their northwest and much of the Kelahiran Archipelago (home to the Varnshya people) off the eastern coast. Both colonies were held under oppressive rule. The only thing standing in their way was the Orcish clans to the southeast and the independent Kelahiran islands with their budding resistance. Under the leadership of the previous Empress Elina Raho, the Sunshya Empire had reached its greatest extent, and her son Adnan was eager to extend it.

Part One: The War for the Red Valley:

The Orcs exceeded the Sunshya in sheer numbers and could take them in standard conflict. What had held them back before was infighting and dissonance between the clans. Most of their territory was protected from the Sunshya attack by the Crescent Mountains, with the breadbasket Red Valley nestled between the two halves of the range. The turning point in the century-old conflict between these two cultures was the unification of the Orc clans by Halasz Czaba under one banner. Once united, the Orcish clans mounted a full attack over the Northern half of the Crescent Mountains.

While this was happening the Sunshya forces were dealing with a problematic resistance in Kelahira. The Varnshya fought tooth and nail to protect their home against the occupation and were able to prevent the Sunshya from overtaking the main island. They couldn't quite push the military out completely though. The Sunshya still needed to station a large number of soldiers on the archipelago to keep the peace on the occupied islands. The occupation of Kelahira was relatively unpopular back home, as it was a seemingly fruitless endeavor that was costing many Sunshya lives. Elina who launched the invasion, and subsequently her son who continued the occupation, were unpopular as well.

The Orcish attack took the d

I'm very noob'ish at this but I read the subreddit a bit to get the understanding.
We are a family of 3 (two parents, small kid), but have other relatives as well. We got a shelter. What else should I prepare for 2-3 weeks without electricity, running water and supplies?
Practical lists or items would be great!
Thank a lot