The Middle East War Maps: SYRIA

Dr. Abdullah Manaz

Mar 2020 · The Middle East War Maps Book 2 · 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 1959 in Yozgat. He graduated from Ankara Mamak High School Mathematics Department in 1978 and from Ankara University Faculty of Theology Department of Islamic Philosophy in 1984. In 1990, he completed his doctorate with the thesis "The Role of Mind in Understanding the Qur'an". In 1977, he taught mathematics at MEB Television. He started journalism in 1978 and published the first news and cartoons in national newspapers. In 1984, he started to working as a producer in Turkish Radion and Television Corporation. He prepared, presented and wrote hundreds of television programs. He received various awards for his programs in 1985, 1986 and 1994. He studied Arabic in Syria in 1987. He made researches on various dates in Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, England, Germany, France and some other European countries. He gave lectures on "Programming on Television" at Ege University Faculty of Communication between 1995-1998. He served as the chairman of the "National Union and Strategy Foundation" between 2003 and 2004. He attended national and international conferences, presented and published academic articles. He wrote 30 books in Turkish, English and Arabic, and was the editor of 3 books (2020). In 2012, he retired from TRT as a "Strategy Specialist". He is married with Ülker Nihal Manaz, and has two sons: Enis Manaz and Erdem Manaz. He is publishing articles in the field of Middle East, Terrorism, Islam and Philosophy on his website, and fool around with private video and photography.