I realize my last post wasn't much of an introduction so you should see this as a retry. I am going to be blogging on the greater middle east - hopefully I will get around to topics such as its current affairs, landscape, troubles, notable parts and events etc. I just finished designing the background. Credit goes to the following...

http://theislamicstandard.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/sisters-in-niqab-north-africa.jpg

http://whyyoumad.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/gaddafi2.jpg

http://ocw.nd.edu/arabic-and-middle-east-studies/islamic-societies-of-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-religion-history-and-culture/lectures/islamic-societies-of-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-religion-history-and-culture/Images/kaaba/image_preview

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/files/jordanprotests_0.jpg

http://www.permaculture.org.au/images/middle_east_landscape.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02110/Mahmoud-Ahmadineja_2110971b.jpg

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrt5rPA84gR788vSEzhQET5XRmfYFRTcWn5d5brQ9dyTDFGwWcxZqjVCgwZAtm9NdeIG6nWV35os0mj_58NoENj1DzeDzH_vFukGYcqL1x6fVrlO8JrniSmNh_qcKPgMbPOfZXz8OWY4/s1600/talibanMS2010_468x653.jpg

http://openanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/gula.jpg?w=594

http://counterterrorismblog.org/Hamas%201.jpg

http://www.ultrafeel.tv/wp-content/uploads/image/architecture/dubai/burj-khalifa-dubai.JPG

http://www.jpegreducer.com/

More to come very soon