中东现已成为全世界政治、经济、军事斗争最剧烈的地区之一。这一地区过去有过好几个名称,西方人曾把它叫做东方(the East)、东部(theOrient)、列万特(the Levant)和近东(theNear East)等等。直到现在,中东和近东这两个名称还经常混用。但近东一般指距离欧洲较近的一些国家,而中东则范围较广,包括黎巴嫩、叙利亚、巴勒斯坦地区、约旦、伊拉克、沙特阿拉伯、科威特、巴林、卡塔尔、阿拉伯联合酋长国、阿曼、也门民主人民共和国、阿拉伯也门共和国、埃及、 The Middle East has now become one of the most violent areas in the political, economic and military fields in the world. There have been several names in the past in the area, which Westerners called the East, the Orient, the Levant and theNear East. Until now, the two names Middle East and Near East often mix. However, the Near East generally refers to countries closer to Europe, while the Middle East is wider, including Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, the Democratic People’s Republic of Yemen , The Arab Republic of Yemen, Egypt,