The Middle East no longer exists, it is now Western Asia: the war against Iran collapses the old balances and a new world order is born

Firas Maksad’s article in the prestigious Foreign Policy, which described an “Abraham axis” and an “Islamic coalition,” has been important. Mohammed Soliman, Egyptian researcher at the Middle East institute, quoted by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, who also faces the great issue, prefers to speak of the “Indo-Abramic” and “Indo-Islamic bloc.”

Defenders who frame the new reality point out that the Middle East is a colonial concept invented in the 19th century by Western strategists to refer to the region from a Europe-centric perspective. Today, clearly, the term is rejected for homogenizing diverse histories and cultures.

The new concept attempts – and succeeds – to correctly encompass Asian countries and neighboring African nations, such as Egypt, without employing colonial labels.

The emergence of the Artificial intelligence It has served a lot to develop the new conclusions that archive the “Middle East” and give rise to “Western Asia” as a more precise geographical territory.

One proposal signals the emergence of two large blocks. On the one hand, the political and military coalition of the United Arab Emirates and Israel extended to India, on the other, the agreement between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, in whose orbit are Turkey, Qatar and Egypt.

Other scholars maintain that Western Asia is made up of numerous countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Gaza, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, the Emirates and others. All Asians and Australians are “Oriental”.

North Africa is not part of the Middle East.

The late religious leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – killed on the first day of the war launched by Israel and the United States, on February 28 – spoke in favor of calling the region Western Asia.

As for the Indo-Islamic bloc, its driving force was the conviction that the US was not reliable as a protective power. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a military pact. Two medium powers that came together to face a chaotic world aggravated by the vacuum left by the Americans.

in the weekly The New Yorkerthe Indian Isaan Tharoor, highlighted that “The Middle East can no longer be conceived as a region in itself, separate from South Asia.”

Tharoor points out that the emergence of blouses that include Arab countries, India and Pakistan, have made it meaningless to talk about the Middle East and not about West Asia, which highlights integration on the continent.

Several analysts hold the perspective, in good and evil, of a US exit from the region, a probable or eventual seismic event but that must be taken into consideration.