A Look Behind The Headlines In The Middle East

As protests and turmoil spread through the Middle East, Mary Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle East division at the Library of Congress gives us a primer on the countries affected.

Click on the hot spots to read country profiles.

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Statistics compiled from the CIA World Factbook and the BBC