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In the Article, British foreign policy in the Middle East where the writers state that the British foreign policy in the Middle East has involved multiple considerations, hence, preserving access to British India, supporting the declining Ottoman empire against Russian threats and whatnot. The writers state that the British foreign policy in the Middle East is a mere result of Western Imperialism.

The British aimed to have a plan to use 'modernization' and economic growth to solve Iraq's problems of social and political unrest in 1955. According to the article, in 1956,The Suez Crisis was a big problem for British as well as, French foreign policy because it left Britain a minor player in the Middle East because of very strong opposition from the United States.

The article has multiple subheadings, they talk about Napoleon's threat, Greek independence: 1821-1833, Crimean War, Seizure of Egypt, 1822, Armenia, Persian gulf: Aden, World War I, Post-war planning, Iraq, World War II, Suez Crisis of 1956, and East of Suez. All of these subheadings or "contents" are all spoken about in terms of how it's associated with Britain and it's foreign policy.

Under the Suez crisis, the author states that as a result of this 1956 crisis that the rhetoric of the British role East of Suez was less and less meaningful. Because at this point, India, Malaya, and Burma have become independent therefore the independence of India, Malaya, Burma and other smaller possessions meant London had an immensely little role.

In conclusion, I felt like this article talked sufficiently about the influence of the British on the Middle East and how the Middle East was under British influence hence the British foreign policy in the Middle East. This relates to class material due to culture imperialism and how our culture developed terms and characteristics which relate back to the west, for instance, the world television and telephone originated from the English language, thus there is no Arabic terms for those words so these may be characteristics influenced by the West and "British foreign policy" in the Middle East.

• Fieldhouse, D. K. Western Imperialism in the Middle East 1914-1958 (Oxford UP, 2006)

• Suez Crisis
• Dietz, Peter. The British in the Mediterranean (Potomac Books Inc, 1994).

Food as a form of non-verbal communication research articles:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1470595815606743

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254344655_Savoring_semiotics_Food_in_intercultural_communication

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666319311602?via%3Dihub