With global attention focused on the Middle East and tensions continuing to rise in Iraq and surrounding territories, National Geographic, the world's leading cartographic authority, has created and published a new collection of maps on the Middle East that helps explain and provide context for many of the important issues in this critical region.
Lending valuable insight into the current situation and the past, National Geographic Atlas of the Middle East will be in bookstores from March 20. It is a volume of newly researched, compiled and updated maps that provide a look at the political and physical dynamics of the region as well as the driving forces that have led to the violence, religious passion and costly wars there.
Founded in 1888, the National Geographic Society is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world. It reaches more than 250 million people worldwide each month through its five magazines, the National Geographic Channel, television documentaries, books, videos and DVDs, maps and interactive media. National Geographic has funded more than 7,000 scientific research projects and supports an education program combating geographic illiteracy. — (menareport.com)
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