For some reason i woke up in the middle of the night and got scary obsessed about finding out whats happening in the middle east, and so here i am binge watching any and all political conflicts surrounding the area, and to make it even weirder I'm a highschooler from the Philippines (a totally different culture, yet im deeply intrigued)

I searched for a video that explained why the middle east is so important in geopolitics in a clear, unbiased and extended way and I found exactly what I was looking for. Loved it!

The conclusion was just beautiful! Unbiased, clear and empathetic, highlighting the real victims, the common people!

Simple, clear, unbiased.

This should be the media capital instead of FOX news and CNN

You have taken one of the most confusing topics imaginable and managed to make it at least a bit intelligible to a wide audience, and you've done it in the most unbiased and fair-spirited way I can imagine. Many thanks, and congratulations.

I've been searching for so f*cking long for a video that explains EVERYTHING I need to know about the Middle East. And not just a conflict between two of the countries. Finally I've found it!!!!! Thank you so much!

I don’t know why Geopolitics interests me so much 😂 I wish there were more opportunities for high schoolers like me to explore the subject on a deeper level.

This is probably the easiest to understand and well explained video on the middle east politics, covering so many different topics so efficiently! Thanks a lot

If popular media outlets reported with this much clarity and unbiasedness, there would be much less hatred in the world

we need more people like you describing major things in simple ways!! great video btw

i just discover this channel, i'm gonna consume all the videos in the following quarantine days :-)

Best video I've found so far. You summed the history, went over key wars and events that has led the ME to what it is today. Thank you!

Great video, very clear and concise! Thank you, Joe.

This is simple and well structured, you just earned yourself a subscriber. Thank you!

Wow, you have done an outstanding job presenting an accurate picture of what is happening and what has been happening in the Middle East for the past 100 years. My personal conclusion is that the destabilizing element of the war effort by the americans is deliberate but I very much appreciate that you chose not to pick sides, so viewers can draw their own conclusions rather then having someone else trying to do the thinking for them. This is what true journalists do, they do proper research and present the information to the public. I am most definitely subscribing and looking forward to more content!

Didn't know much about the Middle East conflict. According to comments its a great video, so I subbed. :) Thank you!

Thanks for uploading this, it makes much more sense now!

That was so well made! I actually understand what's happening now!

Never heard it explain this well! Nice job and keep up the great work you do!

very clear and well explained. Kudos to all who were involved in the making of this video!

Easy to follow, clear, unbiased, great visuals -- great job love it

thanks for this! that was an amazing way of summarizing a lot of group names and all the wars

This is the best explanation about the middle east's geopolitics i have ever found here on youtube, thanksssss

Brilliant. Watching this has been so valuable; can’t thank you enough.

I am from Middle East; I can say in general this video is a good and unbiased overview; but as has been said this is just and overview so it inevitably lack the depth of very complicated reasons of all conflicts happening there mostly due western world interventions and logging for the region wealth. Ex ISIS is created; trained and supported by USA and it's allies for the above reasons..anyway it's good video for who wants to have general Idea about ME.

Hello! I have been searching references in the internet for conflicts in history to be studied, what came into my mind was the turmoil in the Middle East. Thank you for breaking it down in an unbiased and simplified way!

Very well done. Thank you for the insight.

This is one of the cleanest and most helpful videos I've ever watched on this subject. This video is a treasure. Thank you, LondonCityGirl

Thanks so much for the comprehensive overview - very helpful.

Excellent summary of this topic, thank you! If I may add for the division of the Middle-East, it was decided under the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was a secret document during WW1 signed between the brits, french and russians in 1916.

Subscribed ! Great work. :)

This was amazing! I have been for a long time searching for explanations about the Middle East (quarantine studies hahah) and this video really made it clearer, it is a great starting point and I love how you took a realist approach. I really appreciate that you tried your best to be unbiased. You just earned a new subscriber! Thanks a lot :)

Very helpful! I’m always confused by this stuff. Although it was fast, it at least shed some light for me. Going to watch it again to hopefully retain more. Thank you!

I subscribed after 1 minute. Wonderfully explained

precise and neat, this is what we need to see more of. new subscriber :)

Nice job! Clear and concise :-)

YASSS QUEEN! Thanks for a straightforward no bullshit video. Luv u Sis ❤️

Excellent breakdown in such a relatively short time. Well done.

Nicely put together in a sequence. Loved it

Incredible how you made everything so clear

Very well done, liked it. It´s a good overview and it´s ok for everyone. with a normal understanding.

Had been looking for a crisp explanation , found it very useful , thank you 👍

Very good broad overview, thank you!

Historic facts, I love it. This clear up so much I didn’t understand or got wrong.

I just love this video. Periodt!

You are one of the few westerners who knows which countries are included in the Middle East, unlike the uneducated people that confuse the region with a continent or think it's synonymous with Western Asia. But I want to just note something for later videos on the region. I saw a comment on here that mentioned Cyprus being part of the Middle East and he is right. You responded with “geographically it is and not culturally. The Middle East’s geographical makeup is solely based on shared culture politics and History. It is a geopolitical region. The region is not continental based but it is a transcontinental region(not confined to a single continent). The Middle East is a British term and may have originated in the 1850's in the British India Office. The term became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to designate the area between Arabia and India. So in the 20th century, the Middle East gradually came to encompass both the Near East and the Middle East. Egypt, The Levant, the Balkans and Turkey were part of the Near East. The Near East was the term in more common use during the 19th and early 20th century. The term “Middle East”, if employed at all, only referred to the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran. But later, the “Middle East” gradually came to encompass both areas(excluding the Balkans). This change in definition and terminology usage began taking place during World War 2 when Egypt was the site of the Allies’ Middle East supply center. There is actually a very deep meaning to this geographical division that precedes the Eurocentric terminologies of the region. So we have to go all the way back to the actual concept of this geographical/geopolitical division. What we call the “Middle East” region was originally an Arab invention/concept created way before the western terms “Middle East/Near East” even existed. The original term for the Middle Eastern region was “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق‎) which is Arabic for “Where the sun rises”, referring to the Eastern part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.) In the 19th century the Western term “Middle East/Near East” was created and used to basically describe the same region that the Arab medieval historians and geographers created in the 14th century. The region was originally a division conducted by Medieval Arab Historians and Geographers such as Ibn Khaldun to geographically divide the Arab world based on the cultural, political and historical differences between the Western Berber Maghreb region(Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco) and the Eastern Mashriq part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq). When the Europeans came along in the 19th century, they created the newer terms for the same region(Middle East/Near East/the Orient) and towards the 19th and 20th century they gradually added the non Arab countries(Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, and Iran). The word “Maghreb”, the opposite region to the Middle East, also called “Al Maghreb” or “Al Maghreb Al Araby”(المغرب العربي) is Arabic for “where the Sun sets”, and it refers to the western part of the Arab world, which are the North African countries beginning with Libya and ending with Morocco(sometimes Mauritania is included). “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق‎) is modern day Middle East, while “Al Maghreb” is now what people call “North Africa” which does not really constitute the entirety of North Africa but just those Berber states. On the downside, said divisions were perfectly and coincidentally tailored for imperialistic powers. Conquer and divide, as they say, except this time around, the division was already there, so all that was left was the conquering part. The French and the British exploited this division. The Maghreb region was taken by the french and the Mashriq/Middle East/Near east region was taken by the British. They also took turns and went back and forth between regions(Egypt, Syria and Lebanon also experienced french imperialism). The funny thing is that the British continued using the original Arabic term for the “Maghreb” for a very long time until the newer generations just started calling it “North Africa”, which brings a lot of confusion today.

i can't thank you enough for this information

Honestly this video is AMAZING, I ll come back to it because it literally has everything I need to understand the Middle East, past and present

Easy to understand 💯no long grammar 😂 ,I love the illustration and it was really helpful 💯👌thank you and I just subscribed 😀

well done and refreshing!!!

Very well explained. Mark a new subscriber 👍🏻

Brilliant: Well done! Amazing production.

I love your voice, soft and sound, making the intense subject seem very academically objective.

This video was perfect, very educational and unbiased. Well done!

Thank you very much. I was one of the "Utterly Confused" and this was very helpful.

Very nicely explained !

Saw some people arguing under a comment that there is bias or a lack of clarity. I also understand this was explained without great depth and broad brush strokes. Great video as an introduction, exactly what I was looking for as someone who knew very little. It gives me topics I can grasp onto and investigate further. Thank you.

Fantastic explanation! Five stars!

Thanks a lot for this video, very helpful

thanx for the clarity 👍

Had to watch in .75x🕵️‍♂️ loved the cadence and info. Good job city gurl💯👌

Thanks for the video. It was excellent! 👏👏👏

Very informative and unbiased!

really nicely explained thank you learned a bunch.

Well done!

Thank you for a great explanation!

So delighted to find your videos with realistic simple but complete expln of complex matters

easy to follow, excellent vid

Very helpful, thanks!

Explained so well!

Great and helpful thanks 🙏🏽

You're epic, thank you for keeping it simplistic and easy comprehensible. You did a amazing job is explaining everything you stated in the video. Thank you for your unbiased and accurate conveying of the middle east.

Thanks for the info, not biased and i think i followed that up decently because i didnt fully understand what went on in the middle east that much but i guess its a simplified version of what happened so thanks

Fantastic. Thank you.

Thank you London City Girl. Very well explained. I just subscribed to your channel.

Very very amazing, everyone should watch this

Wow super complex things explained in simplest way.... Subscriber earned

Beautiful clear and easy to understand. Thank you

Great video!

I love you for explaining in the way you did.

In no way am I choosing sides between the Israeli in the Palestine situation but I do have a lot of empathy for the Palestinian people #sitting on the fence

Extremely well done video 👍

Just what I needed! I’m going to watch it again

Well articulated ,I just subscribed

thank you ,for covering all this in this time

A very clear overview.

This is outstanding!

Very accurate ☑️ thank you

This is really really good 😌

nice video :)

Good summary 👍

Great work..subscibed 👍 ❤

Crazy how Israel has managed to survive meanwhile surrounded by so many Muslim countries.

You Nailed it sir

Excellent video. Simple, clear and easy for someone with little to no knowledge of the region to understand.

It would be really nice to have lots and lots of videos like this.

That was great!!!!

I admit that I was expecting a one-sided presentation of the Middle East situation; but I was pleasantly surprised with your even-handed description of the current situation and your comprehensive presentation of the events that led up to it. I am a history student and I have naively tried to figure out what I would have done to improve on your video. I could think of nothing except details which might have been detracting from your overall goal. As a Canadian, I probably would have been more critical of the US performance in Syria, but as I said, those details would not necessarily have improved your presentation and may have detracted from the final result. Good job. Excellent presentation.

bravo really excellent i learned so much!