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After the Armenian genocide, Armenian girls flooded the Syrian slave market and many ended up in the harems of central Arabia. [33] In the 20th-century, women and girls for the harem market were kidnapped not only from Africa and Baluchistan, but also from the Trucial States, the Nusayriyah Mountains in Syria, and the Aden Protectorate. [6]
In 2014, Islamic terrorist groups in the Middle East (ISIS also known as Islamic State) and Northern Nigeria have not only justified the taking of slaves in war but actually enslaved women and girls. Abubakar Shekau , the leader of the Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram said in an interview, "I shall capture people and make them slaves". [ 313 ]
Many female Bangladeshi workers in the Middle East become pregnant after being sexually abused by their employers. [13] More than 100 Bangladeshi female labourers were living in shelters in Saudi Arabia and said that they suffered all kinds of abuse there, including sexual exploitation.
The violations of the 2006 truce allowed Hezbollah to strengthen its forces tremendously, while Israel gathered intelligence on the militant group that would prove to be a game-changer in the 2024 ...
Dennis Woodside, President of Impossible Foods, joins Yahoo Finance to discuss the company’s expansion to the Middle East market, outlook on price pressures, and demand for plant-based meats.
Medieval Arab attitudes to Black people varied over time and individual attitude, but tended to be negative. Though the Qur'an expresses no racial prejudice, ethnocentric prejudice towards black people is widely evident among medieval Arabs, for a variety of reasons: [2] their extensive conquests and slave trade; the influence of Aristotelian ideas regarding slavery, which some Muslim ...
“This is a historic day in the history of the Middle East,” he said. But in a sign of the potential danger Israel feels from unknown rulers in Damascus, Netanyahu ordered the military to seize ...
MART: Middle East, Africa, Russia and Turkey; MEA: Middle East and Africa [citation needed] MEASEA : Middle East, Africa and South East Asia [citation needed] MEATI: Middle East, Africa, Turkey & India [13] MEESA: Middle East, Eastern and Southern Africa [citation needed] MEISA: Middle East, Indian Subcontinent and Africa [14]