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Middle Easternize
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English
Alternative forms
en Middle Easternise
Etymology
From en Middle Eastern ize.
Verb
Middle Easternize
en transitive To render 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.
en 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.