The Middle East is a geography where ancient civilizations, wars and religions were born. People, societies and states scattered all over the world know that their roots are in this geography, and for this reason, even though they have established great opportunities and states in other parts of the world, they come back to this geography and seek to dominate these lands. In addition to these historical longings and memories, their ancient holy books keep them alive and vibrant. This also ignites a conflict and war. The Middle East not only hosts two important holy centers such as Jerusalem and Kaaba, but also important centers where the memories of other very important Prophets have passed. In addition to this ancient history, the Middle East's rich oil deposits, its location on important trade routes, and its holy centers make the explanation of events and relations more complex. In order to be able to make accurate and correct analyzes of the events taking place in the Middle East, there is a need for a mind and wisdom that can decipher the clarity hidden in all these complex events and the complex relationships hidden in the reasons that are shown as clear. In this course, students will not only be given information, but also analysis techniques and methods will be explained in order to operate this information correctly. Because this seems to be necessary to understand the Middle East.

Where is the Middle East? The so-called Middle East problem refers to a belief, culture and understanding rather than a geography. Since this geography is located on major religious centers and energy resources, the course will first give information about the cultural, religious, philosophical, social thinking and logic levels and history of this geography. Because without a basic understanding of these, only the ecopolitical, geostrategic problem called the Middle East problem will not be understood. In order to understand this problem, lessons will be taught by combining theopolitical reasoning with ecopolitical and geopolitical areas. Information will be given about the regimes in Syria, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt and other countries in the region, and the causes and consequences of the Arab Spring, Syrian civil war, Palestinian-Israeli conflict will be explained to the students interactively.