In this research, I will deal with British
travel accounts to the Middle East around this period, attempting to
analyze their representation of the Middle Eastern landscape in the
light of Said's concept of "imaginative geography" represented in
his writings on Orientalism in Orientalism, Culture and
Imperialism and his article "Invention, Memory and Place".
After the dismemberment of the “Arab Homeland” by “Sykes – Picot Agreement”
(1916), “Belford Declaration” (1917), the Independence of the “Orient States” (1946), and
the establishment of the so-called “State of Israel” (1948), the concern of the US
A was
concentrated on rallying the States of the Middle East in a “Defense Organization” to
resist the Arab National Orientation, and the „Communist Threats”, and to protect the
western investments, through indigenous military forces and local self-finance. The USA
and Western commitment towards this defense system is restricted to some military and
technical assistance and full control of the military, economic, political, social and cultural
activities in a way that
protects and guarantees the western interests, investments and plans.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war, Russia became the legitimate heir to the Soviet Union, and inherited his permanent seat in the UN Security Council, and the availability of a range of strengths such as geographicala
rea and economic potential and population, and military capacity, including large nuclear arsenal, has made Russia one of the actors at the international level, so they are trying today to have an important role in the Middle East, and aspires to be a competitor for the United States in the region, during the reign of Putin'sreflected Russian foreign policy in the Middle East positions strengthened with regional crises, we noted that in the Russian stance of the US occupation of Iraq, as well as the position of the so-called "Arab spring", this has made the role of Russia is increasing the importance of achieving stability in the Middle East.
