ABSTRACT
The Arab world is comprised of twenty-two countries; twelve from West Asia (Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen) and ten from Africa (Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, and Tunisia). It extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Gulf in the east and from the Mediterranean and the southern Anatolia in the north to Lake Victoria in the heart of Africa. The total area of the Arab countries is approximately 10.3 million square miles (United Nations, 2012).
