Without specifying the country, this question is almost impossile to answer. There are numerous types of regimes across the Middle East. Note: Since many Arab regimes are undergoing massive internal changes due to the Arab Spring, this answer may become dated very quickly.
1) Illiberal Democracies: Many Arab Nations were Liberal Democracies on paper with guaranteed voting rights, freedoms of speech and religion, constitutions that bind the authority of the Executive. In nearly every Arab regime that this describes (like Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Mubarak's Egypt, ben Ali's Tunisia) these paper rights and limitations on paper did not exist. These rulers used an apparent mechanism of democracy to perpetuate a Dictatorship. Iran is also part of this group because although it has an elected parliament, the elections are controlled by the non-elected Supreme Council of Ayatollahs which rule theocratically.
2) Absolute Kingdoms, Sultanates, and Emirates:There is no difference between a Kingdom and Sultanate except that the rulers have different names (King vs. Sultan). An Emirate is similar to a Kingdom, but takes up less space (i.e. Principality). The Arab World has an impressive number of Absolute Monarchs (such as those who rule various Emirates like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar, those who rule Kingdoms like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and those who rule Sultanates like Oman). These monarchs control their people through direct edicts and typically run a nepotistic government.
3) Constitutional Monarchies: There are some Kingdoms (like Jordan and Morocco) where the King is constrained by a Constitution and requires a Parliament to pass laws. However, the strength of these Parliaments is often minimal and the politicians are typically considered untrustworthy (while the King is well-received).
4) Military Juntas: Algeria and Qadhafi's Libya were organized as Military-Run Governments with the leaders officially styling themselves as Presidents but being perceived as Caudillos. As opposed to the leaders of Illiberal Democracies, even the Constitutions of their countries (which are useless) do not legitimate them in the way that Illiberal Democratic Dictators are legitimated on paper.
5) Compromised Government: In Situations with various powerful ethnic groups like Lebanon (with its Maronite, Shiite, and Sunni communities) and Iraq with its (Shiite, Sunni Arab, and Kurd communities) there are democracies which guarantee certain positions in the government to a certain ethnic group so that one group cannot dictate policies for all the other groups. This often results in fights over census taking as that might lessen a particular group's strength and actual group on group violence to intimidate voters of one ethnic group to vote for a candidate that also supports whatever objective would help the perpetrator who are a different ethnicity. This results in very fragile agreements.
6) Parliamentary Democracy: Israel and Turkey both have governments where all citizens over a certain age can vote for political parties that occupy seats in a Parliament and create a ruling coalition. This coalition appoints the Prime Minister and takes over the affairs of governance between the fair and non-fraudulent elections. If current Tunisia continues to behave the way it did in the previous election by the time the next election comes, it too will become a Parliamentary Democracy.
The Middle East has no corollary to the East Asian idea of "Mandate of Heaven". There are governments in the Middle East that are ruled according to religious precepts by clerics and are therefore called Theocracies, but theocracy is not unique to the Middle East. Much of Medieval Europe and Africa was theocratic.
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Mycenians, AssyrianThe first civilization was Mesopotamia in the Middle East, between two rivers: the Tigris, and the Euphrates.
The Greater Middle East includes all of the countries of the Middle East plus North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cyprus, and parts of the Horn of Africa.
Probably from the Middle-East, and from the Middle-East to Africa.
In 1790 the middle east was under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
Prior to the Crusades, there was no "unified Middle East government". The dominant countries in the Middle East were the Abbassid and Fatimid Caliphates, which were hereditary monarchies that ruled according to Sunni and Ismaili Shiite jurisprudence respectively.
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Where have you been? Islam is the dominant religion in the Middle East and the culture of most of its people. Smell the roses, man.
In my opinion neither America or the Middle East is right. The Middle East needs to find out what they want and how they are going to get it. If they do not want our help, we should dismiss ourselves. If they want a different government then they need to rise up and agree on what kind of government they want, and again, if they want our help.
The Middle East has no corollary to the East Asian idea of "Mandate of Heaven". There are governments in the Middle East that are ruled according to religious precepts by clerics and are therefore called Theocracies, but theocracy is not unique to the Middle East. Much of Medieval Europe and Africa was theocratic.
Typically the United States State Department is involved in helping to coordinate Middle East Peace Negotiations. In most other countries, the equivalent division of government is the Foreign Ministry.
A government like the Vatican, which is ruled by the leader of the Catholic Church.
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Arabic is the most common language spoken in the middle east.
the term middle east means the middle of the east.