Middle Easternize
English
Alternative forms
- Middle Easternise
Etymology
From Middle Eastern + -ize.
Verb
Middle Easternize (third-person singular simple present Middle Easternizes, present participle Middle Easternizing, simple past and past participle Middle Easternized)
- To make something Middle Eastern in character.
- 2004 Kinfe Abraham, Nile dilemmas: hydropolitics and potentials conflict ... - Page 107
- Furthermore, by bringing the Eritrean issue into the Arab League it tried to Middle-Easternize the Eritrean issue and, by extension, the Nile one.
- 2006 Ali Khan, A theory of international terrorism [electronic resource], p 359
- Just as Muslim Spain Europeanized the Jews of the Middle East, Israel must Middle Easternize European Jews.
- 2006, Steven Salaita, The Holy Land in Transit, vii:
- Most scholars as a result simply continue to Middle Easternize the Middle East, repeating by implication the old East and West of earlier writing.
- 2004 Kinfe Abraham, Nile dilemmas: hydropolitics and potentials conflict ... - Page 107
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