Tag: H J Mackinder

Damascus: A City of Conflict

By Benjamin Sacks On Wednesday, 18 July, a suicide bomber detonated his device inside the security offices of Syrian president … More

Bashar Al-Assad, Bomb, Cultural Geography, Damascus, Development, Doreen Ingrams, Elizabeth Monroe, Fertile Crescent, Global Issues, H J Mackinder, J L Porter, Kim Philby, Lieutenant Molyneux, Martin Chulov, middle east, Political Geography, revolution, RGS, six-day war, Social Geography, Syria, Tangiers, The Geographical Pivot of History, Urban Geography, W Burckhardt Barker

Syria at the Apex

Benjamin Sacks In civilisation’s development, geographical location dealt Syria a bad hand. The ancient (and historically contested) region of Aleppo … More

Aleppo, Anatolia, B H Farmer, Civilisation, Cultural Geography, Dale R Lightfoot, Damascus, Development, Fertile Crescent, Global Issues, H J Mackinder, Hussein A Amery, Hydrology and Water Resources, Israel, J L Porter, Jordan, Michael Heffernan, Palestine, Political Geography, Royal Geographical Society, Social Geography, Syria, Turkey, violence, W W Harris

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