She’s making a valid point, I keep saying that Middle East is a colonial programming word, its original name is North East Africa.

They’re not like us

To say just two words take more time ? Sorry what’s her name again? Lets see if her name won’t take more time to pronounce

That whole of North Africa including Dubai and Saudi Arabia belong to Africans. All that Arab oil money are African People's inheritance. They eliminated millions if not billions of our African Ancestors in the name of their Allah.

Let the Arabs have it. And get them off of mainland Africa!

Well, we conquered the world. Those who conquer get to name things. Complaining about it is as idiotic as saying that the platform 'X' is an Elon Musk programming word. He bought it, changed it, etc. He gets to name it. Good grief.

But the problem is even those who hav e had colonial naming imposed on them don't want to be associated with Africa. The reason is they themselves are invaders. Egypt especially. You can tell by how they treat the Nubian people. Settler colonies are permanently insecure

Y'all need some lessons in geography

Gotta love Dr Nawal el Saadawi! Seriously tho’ the Levant sits on the African Tectonic plate as part of African continental plate. The Levantine rift valley shows the Arabian plate moving away from the African plate with Israel,Palestine, Lebanon etc remaining on African plate

Northeast Africa then help me

Yeah, like North and South. We should fight for the right have our side of the world considered the top. Why should we be on the bottom?

According to Iran, to Mr @es_Khamenei the proper name for region is West Asia.

What do you call it in Russia?

We wuz towel heads

It's not "colonialist", per se. It's European. Even if they hadn't overpowered you, it would naturally be the Middle East to them. You're just objecting to being overpowered, even today. Leave language out of it, earn some actual respect, and language will follow.

Today we have Morocco and Parts of Algeria fronting to disassociate itself from Africa. How nice to them.

Dr. Clarke refers the land as Western Asia with line being Egypt and Istanbul as the point of reference. Any land east of these two cities is considered Western Asia.

Well, yes, of course, the African part of "Middle East" is of course North Africa while the Asian part is West Asia. As she says.

She's correct. North Africa. Israel at one point was African in till Europeans separated it. And Africa was NOT Arab or Muslim till the 7th century. Arab Muslims pioneered the slave trade. Then Europeans adopted that system and ran the world with it.

..which are also colonial programming words. smh

@Nwabe2 True

North Africa can not be ‘west Asia’. It is ‘West to Asia’. Because Africa is the main land, other countries and continents, on a technical are sub lands, in accordance to. ‘White’ peoples were/are just rude. Due to the unsophisticated tongue and eventually ‘white supremacy’

The Middle East is not a real place, it’s a beg and disrespectful at that. It conceptualised the name to not be associated with Africa (Alkebulan). For instance, you still have the original black in Morocco (sub Saharan) still there. Who don’t clam to the race.

I use to always say to the Arab-Centered North Africans who would argue North Africa is apart of the Middle East by replying… “middle of where?”… never got a good answer till this day.

Just like South South

If you call it North Eat Africa then the modern day jews really have no right in being there. Leave this spell alone, stop noticing!

@grok is the name of this woman

@StreamviDL

Not gonna lie, I thought this was and Ai generated meme of Quaker Oats

@grok why is it called middle east. Is it in the midst of Europe. Or did Europe called it that because they centered them selves?

Nawal El Saadawi love all her literature. She's one of a kind in her own league.

Dummy Africa was created by romans 🤦🏾

If she gets upset from words in the English language than she's free to speak any other language that and refer to parts of the world with any word she likes. She could even make up her own words that refer to whatever. She could also save the trouble and see a therapist.

I love intellectuals, like this older, mature woman. It's time that we shake off the shackles, languages and names put in place during colonization. The so-called Middle East was originally an extension of North Africa. Arab originally meant mixed people.