Near Eastern

[neer eest-ern]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Near East.

Example Sentences

He begins with the Israelites, whose belief in humanity as God’s image sharply distinguished their faith from those of their Near Eastern neighbors.

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These included the university's Middle Eastern Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures programs, as well as the school for Public Health.

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Ancient Near Eastern texts have never been studied in this way, by quantitatively linking emotions to body parts.

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A Near Eastern archaeologist, Schwartz studies how early urban areas developed throughout Syria and how smaller cities emerged in the region.

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Mohamad Bazzi is the director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies and a journalism professor at New York University.

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