Contemporary history of middle east

The Black Death was present in the Middle East between 1347 and 1349.
The Black Death in the Middle East is described more closely in the Mamluk Sultanate, and to a lesser degree in Marinid Sultanate of Morocco, the Sultanate of Tunis, and the Emirate of Granada, while information of it in Iran and the Arabian Peninsula is lacking.
The Black Death in Cairo, at the time the biggest city in the Mediterranean region, was one of the biggest documented demographic catastrophes during the Black Death.

The Contemporary Review of the Middle East is a peer-reviewed forum that publishes original research articles that analyse contemporary Middle Eastern developments in the fields of security, politics, economy and culture.

Ethnic groups in the Middle East, in the 'transcontinental' region which is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia without the South Caucasus, and also comprising Egypt in North Africa.
The region has historically been a crossroad of different cultures and languages.
Since the 1960s, the changes in political and economic factors have significantly altered the ethnic composition of groups in the region.
While some ethnic groups have been present in the region for millennia, others have arrived fairly recently through immigration.
The largest socioethnic groups in the region are Arabs, Turks, Persians, Kurds, and Azerbaijanis but there are dozens of other ethnic groups that have hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of members.