Middle Easternize

English

Alternative forms

• Middle Easternise

Etymology

From Middle Eastern +‎ -ize.

Verb

Middle Easternize (third-person singular simple present Middle Easternizes, present participle Middle Easternizing, simple past and past participle Middle Easternized)

1. To make something Middle Eastern in character.
   • 2004 Kinfe Abraham, Nile dilemmas: hydropolitics and potentials conflict ... - Page 107

     Furthermore, by bringing the Eritrean issue into the Arab League it tried to Middle-Easternize the Eritrean issue and, by extension, the Nile one.

   • 2006 Ali Khan, A theory of international terrorism [electronic resource], p 359

     Just as Muslim Spain Europeanized the Jews of the Middle East, Israel must Middle Easternize European Jews.

   • 2006, Steven Salaita, The Holy Land in Transit, vii:

     Most scholars as a result simply continue to Middle Easternize the Middle East, repeating by implication the old East and West of earlier writing.