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10-462: The Arab Mashreq international Road Network is an international road network between the primarily Arab countries of the Mashriq ( Syria , Iraq , Jordan , Palestine , Lebanon , Kuwait , Egypt , Saudi Arabia , Bahrain , Qatar , UAE , Oman and Yemen ). In addition, part of the network passes through Israel , which is not a party to the agreement that created it as well as non-Arab parts of
20-617: Is ambitious; 60% of the routes have not yet been built, and parts of existing railway infrastructure are weak or have gauge differences ; some states may be unable to make large investments in infrastructure . Like the European Trans-European Transport Network , the Agreement specifies a family of high-priority international routes, rather than setting service details or awarding contracts to operators. The Agreement on International Railways in
30-666: Is considered part of the Mashriq, whereas Tripolitania in western Libya is considered part of the Maghreb. Therefore Sirtica or the Gulf of Sidra is considered the dividing point between the Maghreb and Mashreq within the Arab world. These geographical terms date from the early Islamic expansion. The Mashriq corresponds to the Bilad al-Sham and Mesopotamian regions combined. As of 2014 ,
40-631: The Arab Mashriq ( Arabic : اَلْمَشْرِقُ الْعَرَبِيُّ , romanized : al-Mashriq al-ʿArabi , lit. 'the Arab east'), sometimes spelled Mashreq or Mashrek , is a term used by Arabs to refer to the eastern part of the Arab world , as opposed to the Maghreb (western) region, and located in Western Asia and eastern North Africa . It is the Arabic equivalent for
50-611: The State of Palestine , Syria , the United Arab Emirates and Yemen . As the word Mashriq refers to Arab countries located between the Mediterranean Sea and Iran , it is the companion term to Maghreb ( Arabic : المغرب ), the western half of the Arab world comprising Algeria , Morocco , Tunisia and western Libya . Libya may be regarded as straddling the two regions. Cyrenaica in eastern Libya
60-569: The Arab Mashreq was adopted on 17 April 2003. It entered into force on 23 May 2005 after it had been ratified by Egypt , Jordan , Lebanon and Syria . As of July 2016, it has been ratified by 12 states: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the State of Palestine, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Jordan joined OTIF in August 2010, and plans to become
70-891: The Mashriq is home to 1.7% of the global population. All of the countries located in the Arab Mashreq area are members of the Arab League , the Greater Arab Free Trade Area , and the United Nations . The region cooperates in several projects including the Arab Mashreq International Road Network and the Arab Mashreq International Railway . Several nations are also members of the GCC and others have tried to achieve political unity in
80-547: The past, such as the United Arab Republic in the 1960s and 1970s, which originally included both Egypt and Syria . Arab Mashreq International Railway The Arab Mashreq International Railway is a proposed railway network in the Mashriq , which is located in Western Asia and eastern North Africa in the eastern part of the Arab world . The planned network has north–south and east–west axes, and 16 different routes covering 19500 route-km. The plan
90-498: The region. The network is a result of the 2001 Agreement on International Roads in the Arab Mashreq , a United Nations multilateral treaty that entered into force in 2003 and has been ratified by 13 of the 14 (all except Israel) countries that the network serves. Other intercontinental highway systems: Mashriq The Mashriq ( / m ə ˈ ʃ r iː k / ; Arabic : ْاَلْمَشْرِق , romanized : al-Mashriq , lit. 'the east'), also known as
100-476: The term Middle East . Poetically the "Place of Sunrise", the name is derived from the verb sharaqa ( َشَرَق , "to shine, illuminate, radiate" and "to rise"), from the sh-r-q root ( ش-ر-ق ), referring to the east, where the sun rises. The region includes the Arab-majority states of Bahrain , Egypt , Iraq , Jordan , Kuwait , Lebanon , the eastern part of Libya , Oman , Qatar , Saudi Arabia ,
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