The Middle East War Maps: LIBYA

Dr. Abdullah Manaz

Mar 2020 · The Middle East War Maps Book 4 · Abdullah Manaz

About this ebook

I have been watching the Middle East region closely since about 1988. In 2006, I published a printed book called “Strategic Maps Atlas” on War and Strategic Maps. I drew Ethnic Maps of countries such as Near Middle East countries, Iran, Afghanistan among 16 Strategic Maps, which were also published as big posters. With the Arab Spring process, the Middle East has become a major conflict area. In these years, Web-based Interactive Map studies, which were based on Google API applications, started to become widespread. In Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Afghanistan, neighborhoods and cities were constantly changing hands between warring groups and maps were changing. So I started publishing a web-based Middle East Map. According to the political and military developments in the countries, I was constantly updating this map. I was saving important developments in PNG, JPG format and posting them on my website as Picture. These map printouts have become a beautiful archive over time. I decided that this archive would be useful for Researchers and Scientists and published them in a book.

I hope that the Middle East War Maps series will contribute to your work.

About the author

Abdullah Manaz was born in 1958. He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Theology Ankara in 1984. He became a doctor of Islamic Philosophy in Ankara University Graduate School of Social Sciences in 06.11.1990. His Doctorate Thesis was about the Role of Wisdom about Understanding of the Holy Quran.

He started journalism after 1978 and some of his news and cartoons were published in national newspapers. He started working at Turkish Radio and Television as producer in 1984. He has produced and directed hundreds of TV programs until this day. He received various awards in 1985, 1986 and 1994 for his programs. In 1987, he studied Arabic language for a period of one year in Syria. He appointed as an expert in 15.06.1990. He made researches several times in Northern Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia and in European countries.

He gave lectures about “Program Production on TV” at Faculty of Communication of Ege University between 1995 and 1998. He was president of "National unity and Strategy Foundation" in 2003 and 2004. He has participated in national and international conferences and has presented papers. He has retired as a strategic expert from Turkish Radio and Television Corporation in 2011. He speaks English and Arabic. He has written 40 books in Turkish, English and Arabic.