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== MiddleEastNewsAgency ==
there's also a newsagency called mena. see: mena.org.eg
: Doesn't really have anything to do with the term MENA covered here. Egyptian state organ. ([[User:Collounsbury|Collounsbury]] 08:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)).
== Poorly written ==
This article was really terribly written. I have edited to rephrase to remove references of MENA region as if it is an "actor" - as well as excessive territorial precision as usage is fairly variable. I removed odd commentary on MENA as consumer market which sounds like promo marketing material (and strikes me as having needed citation to support). I also removed the extensive, POV, dated and inaccurate economic/marketing/consumer discussion ([[User:Collounsbury|Collounsbury]] 08:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)).
== Inclusion of Western Sahara ==
'''Why, Jalil?''' As the article explicitly states, there is no one definition of MENA, but the guideline is the "'''M'''iddle '''E'''ast" and "'''N'''orth '''A'''frica." Since Western Sahara is in [[North Africa]], it belongs on the list, right? Are you going to delete - for instance - Djibouti, because it does not fit the criteria you cited (by way of Fayssal's edit summary)? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 03:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
: Western Sahara is in North Africa, and so is Kabylia and the Souss region. This list includes the countries not the provinces and territories. If you want to add Western Sahara, why not add Kabylia, Souss, the Rif, etc. Jibouti is a full-fledged country and is claimed/disputed by none, not to be compared with disputed territories.--[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 07:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:Justin, please stop that. You are being watched by not only admins but by arbits as well. So stop that nonsense. Why not go work for the World Bank and ask them to do include it in their definition? -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 10:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::'''Nonsense?''' To call Western Sahara a province is POV, Jalil. You must know that. How is this nonsense, Fayssal? The article explicitly states that there is no single definition of MENA; Western Sahara is in North Africa, right? Is that nonsense? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 16:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:::And to add a flag or whatever to it is POV as well. This is the bottom line. Please have some research and understand that MENA is an economic platform where state members often meet. It is not a political or geographic entity. So the nonsense i am referring to is just like trying to convience us to add Switzerland to the [[European Union]]. So please save us some time. Do you have any more confusions? -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 16:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::::'''One definition''' Sure, that's one definition, Fayssal. So, are you going to delete Djibouti from the list, since it's not a part of the World Bank's definition? If not, why are you in favor of deleting Western Sahara? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 17:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::Justin, please check your facts. Djibouti is listed at the WB list. -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 17:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::'''True''' I had assumed competency in the map that clearly is not the case... Djibouti is on their list, and for some reason, Malta is conspicuously absent from this one. Note that the section does not say "the following are the World Bank's definition of MENA," rather it says "MENA is typically used to include the following countries, although no ''standard definition exists''." (emphasis added) How can you exclude Western Sahara? What is the justification, exactly? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 18:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::: Ah bloody hell, the little WS moujahil moudjahid is back. Malta is not part of MENA as (i) it is an '''EU''' member and second, despite having historic links to MENA, a long (willing) dependency of European powers (long as in centuries). MENA is a usage found largely in the sphere of people in WB circles and investment circles. WB usage, as such, then, rather than ''political activist'' circles is the reference point. Above all when such ''activists'' lack a basic understanding of usage, history or, well, [[practical reality]]. Welcome back to your personal Qixotic djihad mate. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 23:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::'''Thanks''' As usual, between British slang, obscure Arabic transliteration, and insults, I'm not sure that I even understand the point of your post. Are you in favor of removing Malta and/or including Western Sahara in this list? Thanks for the red link - here's another [[common courtesy and intelligibility]]. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 23:55, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::: Thanks Collounsbury for remarking Malta. Koavf has added it though MENA does not include European countries. Ceuta and Melilla are in North Africa and are at the moment part of Spain, if that does not make Spain part of MENA, how could Malta be??.--[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 08:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::'''I don't know''' [http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/MENAEXT/0,,menuPK:247619~pagePK:146748~piPK:146812~theSitePK:256299,00.html Ask the World Bank]. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 15:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::: koavf, you wrote above "''As the article explicitly states, there is no one definition of MENA, but the guideline is the "Middle East" and "North Africa."''". So why do you insist on inserting a European country, Malta?. Because it is on the list of countries on the WB page? but why do you try to add WS which is not on that list?, and it is not even a country. The WB seems to be relevant in the case of Malta but not in the case of WS. Stop this non-sense please.--[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 20:57, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::'''World Bank definitions''' I was never in favor of the World Bank definition, but if we're going to use it, we should use it, and not capriciously delete one of the countries. You can't exclude both Malta and Western Sahara by any rational standard. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 02:47, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::::::: Good lord, what the bloody hell is your bloody problem? Malta is by no rational standard part of the MENA region. No one in business or generally includes it in the game. Why WB has it on their headline list escapes me, but certainly if you go to the bloody '''drop down menu''' you don't bloody get Malta, now do you? (The answer is no) Western Sahara is a disputed bloody territory, different question. I'm bloody taking Malta off the page. Some degree of rationality may yet prevail. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 14:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC).
:::::::::::::: By the way, for a look at real operational definiations of MENA, see WB's own "Doing Business" Database / Project: MENA for example http://www.doingbusiness.org/EconomyRankings/?regionid=426 - Malta does not operationally fall in there. Indeed, in business we look at Malta - like Cyprus - as part of Europe. Now lay off your peculiar little djihad. It's tediously ill-informed. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 14:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::: This is getting ridiculous. Before bloody reverting, bloody well respond to actual critiques. I defend your (koavf) edits where you have a point, but bloody playing childish revert games tries the patience. 20:24, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::'''Bloody''' Well, you bloody well bring up a bloody point about the bloody dropdown menu and how the bloody World Bank apparently (bloody) contradicts itself. You could consider it MENA, I suppose, because it is Semitic. That seems bloody reasonable to me. I'm personally not invested in including Malta; I only did so because I saw a source that included it. Since said source contradicts itself, feel free to remove it for all I care, but not all of the other reasonable additions (e.g. Western Sahara, greater Middle East, reference to Chinese culture instead of PRC, etc.) Bloody. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 20:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::::: I have no idea how to talk to you, but (i) Semetic has fuck all to do with being part of MENA (never mind the question of what Semitic means in this instance). Iran is part of MENA, it's not Semetic, etc.; (ii) your Western Sahara obsession aside, MOST usage and sourcing, including MOST World Bank usage does NOT include Malta (nor W.S. - this latter for the simple reason they want to do business and not get bogged down to be sure). Stop being such a petulant partisan and if you want to "promote" your little WS cause, do so rationally. Bloody hell, I will even support you when you have a right bloody point. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 20:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC).
::::::::::::::::::::'''So bloody''' I never said that '''only''' Semitic-speaking regions should be included; I have no problem with Iran's presence. Again, exclude Malta for all I care - I only included it because for some reason, the consensus was to go with the World Bank definition and it contradicts itself. I don't really care. Again, I will refer you to the definition of MENA: Middle East and North Africa. Western Sahara is in North Africa, therefore, it is in MENA. A simple Google search of [http://images.google.com/images?q=MENA+map&btnG=Search+Images&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial MENA map] includes maps that have WS and ones that don't. Which is fine. I have no problem with some definitions excluding it. But as long as some do, we should include it (and any other potential MENA territories), in the aside that I added at the end of the article. I have to admit my own ignorance here: do you know if the WB coined the term? If not, then who? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 20:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::::::: REally bloody simple mate: it's not a bloody country. It (or Polisario wants it to be) wants to be, but it ain't yet. ([[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 10:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
== Usage of MENA ==
Well, I see my little KOAVF Western Sahara agitprop promoter wishes to continue to argue from ignorance, as well as insert his wildly exaggerated obsession with Western Sahara into any topic even tangentially related. This is not just inappropriate, it's positively destructive to articles (as in here in re Malta).
Now, as for the question above, I doubt any single entity - and certainly not WB alone - coined the term. It arose out of both academic and business usage (esp. in financial world), and typically covers the "Arab World" states excluding the peripherals (e.g. Somalia and Djibouti), including Iran, sometimes Turkey although rarely, sometimes Pakistan, although rarely).
You can see typical private sector usage here: http://www.menafn.com/ (I should confess I know the owner of the business personally, but no matter for the substance) or here http://www.menareport.com/en/business/
Further, you can refer to Human Rights Watch own reference to MENA here: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast and do note the '''countries''' included.
Finally, you can refer to International Crisis Group here http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1096&l=1 and indeed you may wish to take the time to read their critical report on your beloved Polisario (not the shining bastion of liberalism you seem to think, every bit as nasty and unpleasant as the Moroccan Makhzen - but there ain't no bloody virgins in the Middle East / North African political realm, so no bloody surprise).
Now I hope you will bloody well stop your personal djihad to insert Western Sahara on every damn page possibly tangentially touching on the issue, or deface it due to your ill-informed, obsessive, narrow-minded partisan editing. It grows terribly tiresome. Try learning from Arre who is at once able to defend the W. Sahara POV without engaging in ridiculousness such as this foolishness with Malta.
([[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 10:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
:[http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2085/01/MPRA_paper_2085.pdf Malta is included]. Check the footnote at page 4. The reason i believe Malta is included is that it is ranked 134 out of 162 in terms of GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) being thus the last European country in the list (World Bank 2006 stats). It is also ranked 193 out of 211 in terms of GDP (real) growth rate. What bothers me is the way Justin uses Malta as a scapegoat to further his POV issues. I believe the matter is sorted out for the time being. -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 11:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:: I am aware World Bank occasionally includes Malta in its definition (although if you review their '''operational usage''', as in the major "Doing Business" project, you find they do not typically include Malta in actual MENA analyses - not for economic, financial or socio-economic studies; I bloody well work on these issues (or rather investment) and track this quite closely.) I also note from footnote one in the paper you linked: '''''1 The definition of MENA followed in this paper includes: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.''''' - This matches typical usage. Of course, as I already noted Turkey is one of those borderline instances where it's hard to say if it is more commonly in the category or out. I am particularly annoyed with his vandalistic editing, as you say "as a scapegoat to further his POV issues." I also would strongly suggest that the current Western Sahara pages could and should be profitably edited to reflect the even-handed critique of all parties by the International Crisis Group (in particular the idealised vision kaovf keeps pimping re Polisario and its 'government in exile' - Moroccan and Algerian sins being rather more obvious and well-reported). [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 11:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC).
:::'''Last word on this''' Western Sahara is a [[List of countries|country]] (in no small part due to the fact that said term is far more vague than even MENA, and has no definition.) I again/still/forevermore have no vested interest in Malta being on this list, nor is it a part of my bloody personal djihad. I have no earthly idea why you want to escalate personal conflicts with your retorts and I wish you'd stop. I have read the reports (there were actually two released simultaneously) from the International Crisis Group, and they are, in fact, well-written, interesting, and I have no doubt accurate. (Do you see how I made that sentence without constructions like "If you weren't such a bloody ignorant child-fool you'd know there were two bloody reports on the bloody Western Sahara, bloody.") Never in my life have I claimed that Polisario were "virgins" nor anyone else in North Africa. Note that every bit of that post was irrelevant to the actual article itself except the second sentence. Why? Because you've just gone on a bloody personal djihad. If you want to talk about me, my editing, my views, feel free to post on my talk. If you want to talk about the MENA article, feel free to post it here. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 15:32, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
::::Country or Jupiter. You have to understand that MENA is a designation having to do w/ business. We don't have to hear the same arguments everywhere and all the time. If you ''have no vested interest in Malta being on this list'' than you are making a POINT. Please stop, it is getting boring indeed. Basta ya hombre! -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 20:44, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:::: Stop your bloody whinging on mate. You bloody well deface article after article - on subjects you bloody well admit you're bloody fucking ignorant about - due to one bloody obsession. For the sake of a bloody fuck, take a breather. I gots opinions about South Africa, but I ain't no expert, so I keep my hands off. See what I mean? And as for Polisario - your edits show a gullible young fool regurgitating agitprop. Having an opinion is fine, but get some bloody perspective mate. I argue your side when you have a point, you've seen that, but god damn, you keep bloody editing this article inserting Malta, running on as supra about World Bank and then bloody well admitting you know fuck all about the subject you're editing. It is making a goddamned point and while you may not be bloody well "vested" in Malta, you are bloody well vested in defacing every other article with the slightest tangential connexion with your obsession with poorly thought out, poorly informed obsessive edits - as in here, repeatedly, against better advice, in ignorance. I don't go to your bloody talk page because I don't give a flying fuck about you, it's those few subject matters that I do know that I care about. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 00:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::'''Pools of blood''' It's odd that you would spend so much time cursing at me to say you don't care about my opinion; that makes no sense. Fayssal, if you're implying that I'm breaking [[WP:POINT]], I'm not - I was trying to be consistent with the definition that you wanted to use, namely, the World Bank's. Again, the WB apparently contradicts itself, so the source as such is useless. Feel free to exclude or include Malta for all I care. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 03:32, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::: to make life easier for koavf, let say it in simple English: the list of MENA includes only sovereign states. All koavf is doing from the beginning is to insert WS in the list. WS is not a sovereign state, and will thus never be added to the article. period. --[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 20:16, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
From 2013 MENAP is more prominent group in IMF reports than MENA. We should create a separate page for MENAP [[User:Buddyonline7|Buddyonline7]] ([[User talk:Buddyonline7|talk]]) 09:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
== Turkey ==
I think Turkey should be included. It is included in the [[Middle East]] section so should by definition be in MENA.[[User:Aa2-2004|Aa2-2004]] ([[User talk:Aa2-2004|talk]]) 14:09, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
:Agreed. Can't understand why it's not. [[User:Cjs2111|Cjs2111]] ([[User talk:Cjs2111|talk]]) 13:19, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
:: MENA is an academic and business writing, you can see the ref which stats that Turkey and Cyrus are not MENA. <br /> – ''[[User:HonorTheKing|HonorTheKing]] ([[User talk:HonorTheKing|talk]])'' 00:13, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
::: Considering the disputed definition of both North Africa and the Middle East, as well as varying usages of MENA, I have edited the page and map to reflect both the standard accepted list of countries and an expanded definition, similar to the articles on North Africa and the Middle East. -[[User:Kudzu1|Kudzu1]] ([[User talk:Kudzu1|talk]]) 06:14, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
== Mauritania ==
The term covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco to Iran, including all Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries.
However, [[Mauritania]], a Maghreb country, is absent from the list and the map. Is this an oversight? — [[User:DanPMK|MK]] (<sup>[[User Talk:DanPMK|t]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:contributions/DanPMK|c]]</sub>) 03:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
: Iv'e fixed that, <br /> – ''[[User:HonorTheKing|HonorTheKing]] ([[User talk:HonorTheKing|talk]])'' 00:13, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
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== North Africa ==
per [[North Africa]] definition and [http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2085/1/MPRA_paper_2085.pdf munich study sources] suggest Sudan is among MENA countries! these terms are vague and ack of consistency. <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/92.96.33.22|92.96.33.22]] ([[User talk:92.96.33.22|talk]]) 14:26, 7 April 2013 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== per [[WP:ARBPIA3]] ==
semi protected.--[[User:Dlohcierekim|<b style="color:black">Dloh<span style="color:red">cier</span><span style="color:gold">ekim</span></b>]] ([[User talk:Dlohcierekim|talk]]) 13:17, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
== Protection ==
Pages like this need to be protected against angry(might i add) religious followers.
Someone also needs to add Pakistan back to the additional countries list. I don’t know who would erase it but it is commonly also included in mena. In fact in the same wiki article it says a term called menap was created specifically to add Afghanistan and Pakistan into mena. Why is Pakistan removed from the additional countries it should be put back on and it is more commonly included than Somalia and half the other countries in that category of other countries <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Thewinnerz33|Thewinnerz33]] ([[User talk:Thewinnerz33#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Thewinnerz33|contribs]]) 17:15, 21 July 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== Reference for the use of this term in the English language? ==
I'm a native English speaker, and have '''never''' come across the term "MENA" before the one single occasion which led me to Google what it meant (thus leading me to the Wikipedia page).
This article says it's an English-language term. If that's so, it needs a citation / etymology / history of use to explain it. For all I know, it could have been made up on the spot. Sources required! [[User:Eurosong|EuroSong]] <sup>[[User_talk:Eurosong|talk]]</sup> 19:20, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
: Well it's an accronym used by the development sector people and derived from English words. Doesn't the reference number 1 (Worldbank) suffice to convince you that this accronym does exist, [[User:Eurosong|EuroSong]]? [[User:EMsmile|EMsmile]] ([[User talk:EMsmile|talk]]) 14:45, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
== Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2019 ==
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You should change "population" to "adult population" in the following sentence :
"According to [[Pew Research Center]], 40% of the population in MENA has completed less than a year of primary school." [[User:Mdruszcz|Mdruszcz]] ([[User talk:Mdruszcz|talk]]) 14:52, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
:[[File:Yes check.svg|20px|link=|alt=]] '''Done'''<!-- Template:ESp --> [[User:Gulumeemee|Gulumeemee]] ([[User talk:Gulumeemee|talk]]) 04:33, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
== Afghanistan and Pakistan ==
The two countries Afghanistan and Pakistan have often times been included in MENA. Pakistan for some reason seems to keep getting vandalized off the other MENA countries list calling it controversial even though countries like Chad Niger Djibouti(countries that I have never ever seen being listed as mena) are on there without controversy. Please stop the vandalism removing Pakistan from this because Afghanistan and Pakistan are on many MANY MENA maps if you google mena map and also the world health organization IMF FBI etc all include them in this region while not including half the other countries on the also sometimes included list so please fix any vandalism That happens to Pakistan or Afghanistan there. [[User:Thewinnerz33|Thewinnerz33]] ([[User talk:Thewinnerz33|talk]]) 15:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)' |
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== MiddleEastNewsAgency ==
there's also a newsagency called mena. see: mena.org.eg
: Doesn't really have anything to do with the term MENA covered here. Egyptian state organ. ([[User:Collounsbury|Collounsbury]] 08:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)).
== Poorly written ==
This article was really terribly written. I have edited to rephrase to remove references of MENA region as if it is an "actor" - as well as excessive territorial precision as usage is fairly variable. I removed odd commentary on MENA as consumer market which sounds like promo marketing material (and strikes me as having needed citation to support). I also removed the extensive, POV, dated and inaccurate economic/marketing/consumer discussion ([[User:Collounsbury|Collounsbury]] 08:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)).
== Inclusion of Western Sahara ==
'''Why, Jalil?''' As the article explicitly states, there is no one definition of MENA, but the guideline is the "'''M'''iddle '''E'''ast" and "'''N'''orth '''A'''frica." Since Western Sahara is in [[North Africa]], it belongs on the list, right? Are you going to delete - for instance - Djibouti, because it does not fit the criteria you cited (by way of Fayssal's edit summary)? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 03:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
: Western Sahara is in North Africa, and so is Kabylia and the Souss region. This list includes the countries not the provinces and territories. If you want to add Western Sahara, why not add Kabylia, Souss, the Rif, etc. Jibouti is a full-fledged country and is claimed/disputed by none, not to be compared with disputed territories.--[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 07:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:Justin, please stop that. You are being watched by not only admins but by arbits as well. So stop that nonsense. Why not go work for the World Bank and ask them to do include it in their definition? -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 10:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::'''Nonsense?''' To call Western Sahara a province is POV, Jalil. You must know that. How is this nonsense, Fayssal? The article explicitly states that there is no single definition of MENA; Western Sahara is in North Africa, right? Is that nonsense? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 16:04, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:::And to add a flag or whatever to it is POV as well. This is the bottom line. Please have some research and understand that MENA is an economic platform where state members often meet. It is not a political or geographic entity. So the nonsense i am referring to is just like trying to convience us to add Switzerland to the [[European Union]]. So please save us some time. Do you have any more confusions? -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 16:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::::'''One definition''' Sure, that's one definition, Fayssal. So, are you going to delete Djibouti from the list, since it's not a part of the World Bank's definition? If not, why are you in favor of deleting Western Sahara? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 17:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::Justin, please check your facts. Djibouti is listed at the WB list. -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 17:49, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::'''True''' I had assumed competency in the map that clearly is not the case... Djibouti is on their list, and for some reason, Malta is conspicuously absent from this one. Note that the section does not say "the following are the World Bank's definition of MENA," rather it says "MENA is typically used to include the following countries, although no ''standard definition exists''." (emphasis added) How can you exclude Western Sahara? What is the justification, exactly? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 18:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::: Ah bloody hell, the little WS moujahil moudjahid is back. Malta is not part of MENA as (i) it is an '''EU''' member and second, despite having historic links to MENA, a long (willing) dependency of European powers (long as in centuries). MENA is a usage found largely in the sphere of people in WB circles and investment circles. WB usage, as such, then, rather than ''political activist'' circles is the reference point. Above all when such ''activists'' lack a basic understanding of usage, history or, well, [[practical reality]]. Welcome back to your personal Qixotic djihad mate. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 23:35, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::'''Thanks''' As usual, between British slang, obscure Arabic transliteration, and insults, I'm not sure that I even understand the point of your post. Are you in favor of removing Malta and/or including Western Sahara in this list? Thanks for the red link - here's another [[common courtesy and intelligibility]]. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 23:55, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::: Thanks Collounsbury for remarking Malta. Koavf has added it though MENA does not include European countries. Ceuta and Melilla are in North Africa and are at the moment part of Spain, if that does not make Spain part of MENA, how could Malta be??.--[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 08:13, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::'''I don't know''' [http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/MENAEXT/0,,menuPK:247619~pagePK:146748~piPK:146812~theSitePK:256299,00.html Ask the World Bank]. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 15:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::: koavf, you wrote above "''As the article explicitly states, there is no one definition of MENA, but the guideline is the "Middle East" and "North Africa."''". So why do you insist on inserting a European country, Malta?. Because it is on the list of countries on the WB page? but why do you try to add WS which is not on that list?, and it is not even a country. The WB seems to be relevant in the case of Malta but not in the case of WS. Stop this non-sense please.--[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 20:57, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::'''World Bank definitions''' I was never in favor of the World Bank definition, but if we're going to use it, we should use it, and not capriciously delete one of the countries. You can't exclude both Malta and Western Sahara by any rational standard. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 02:47, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::::::::::: Good lord, what the bloody hell is your bloody problem? Malta is by no rational standard part of the MENA region. No one in business or generally includes it in the game. Why WB has it on their headline list escapes me, but certainly if you go to the bloody '''drop down menu''' you don't bloody get Malta, now do you? (The answer is no) Western Sahara is a disputed bloody territory, different question. I'm bloody taking Malta off the page. Some degree of rationality may yet prevail. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 14:03, 17 June 2007 (UTC).
:::::::::::::: By the way, for a look at real operational definiations of MENA, see WB's own "Doing Business" Database / Project: MENA for example http://www.doingbusiness.org/EconomyRankings/?regionid=426 - Malta does not operationally fall in there. Indeed, in business we look at Malta - like Cyprus - as part of Europe. Now lay off your peculiar little djihad. It's tediously ill-informed. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 14:10, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::: This is getting ridiculous. Before bloody reverting, bloody well respond to actual critiques. I defend your (koavf) edits where you have a point, but bloody playing childish revert games tries the patience. 20:24, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::'''Bloody''' Well, you bloody well bring up a bloody point about the bloody dropdown menu and how the bloody World Bank apparently (bloody) contradicts itself. You could consider it MENA, I suppose, because it is Semitic. That seems bloody reasonable to me. I'm personally not invested in including Malta; I only did so because I saw a source that included it. Since said source contradicts itself, feel free to remove it for all I care, but not all of the other reasonable additions (e.g. Western Sahara, greater Middle East, reference to Chinese culture instead of PRC, etc.) Bloody. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 20:29, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::::: I have no idea how to talk to you, but (i) Semetic has fuck all to do with being part of MENA (never mind the question of what Semitic means in this instance). Iran is part of MENA, it's not Semetic, etc.; (ii) your Western Sahara obsession aside, MOST usage and sourcing, including MOST World Bank usage does NOT include Malta (nor W.S. - this latter for the simple reason they want to do business and not get bogged down to be sure). Stop being such a petulant partisan and if you want to "promote" your little WS cause, do so rationally. Bloody hell, I will even support you when you have a right bloody point. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 20:33, 20 June 2007 (UTC).
::::::::::::::::::::'''So bloody''' I never said that '''only''' Semitic-speaking regions should be included; I have no problem with Iran's presence. Again, exclude Malta for all I care - I only included it because for some reason, the consensus was to go with the World Bank definition and it contradicts itself. I don't really care. Again, I will refer you to the definition of MENA: Middle East and North Africa. Western Sahara is in North Africa, therefore, it is in MENA. A simple Google search of [http://images.google.com/images?q=MENA+map&btnG=Search+Images&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial MENA map] includes maps that have WS and ones that don't. Which is fine. I have no problem with some definitions excluding it. But as long as some do, we should include it (and any other potential MENA territories), in the aside that I added at the end of the article. I have to admit my own ignorance here: do you know if the WB coined the term? If not, then who? -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 20:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
::::::::::::::::::::: REally bloody simple mate: it's not a bloody country. It (or Polisario wants it to be) wants to be, but it ain't yet. ([[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 10:18, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
== Usage of MENA ==
Well, I see my little KOAVF Western Sahara agitprop promoter wishes to continue to argue from ignorance, as well as insert his wildly exaggerated obsession with Western Sahara into any topic even tangentially related. This is not just inappropriate, it's positively destructive to articles (as in here in re Malta).
Now, as for the question above, I doubt any single entity - and certainly not WB alone - coined the term. It arose out of both academic and business usage (esp. in financial world), and typically covers the "Arab World" states excluding the peripherals (e.g. Somalia and Djibouti), including Iran, sometimes Turkey although rarely, sometimes Pakistan, although rarely).
You can see typical private sector usage here: http://www.menafn.com/ (I should confess I know the owner of the business personally, but no matter for the substance) or here http://www.menareport.com/en/business/
Further, you can refer to Human Rights Watch own reference to MENA here: http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast and do note the '''countries''' included.
Finally, you can refer to International Crisis Group here http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1096&l=1 and indeed you may wish to take the time to read their critical report on your beloved Polisario (not the shining bastion of liberalism you seem to think, every bit as nasty and unpleasant as the Moroccan Makhzen - but there ain't no bloody virgins in the Middle East / North African political realm, so no bloody surprise).
Now I hope you will bloody well stop your personal djihad to insert Western Sahara on every damn page possibly tangentially touching on the issue, or deface it due to your ill-informed, obsessive, narrow-minded partisan editing. It grows terribly tiresome. Try learning from Arre who is at once able to defend the W. Sahara POV without engaging in ridiculousness such as this foolishness with Malta.
([[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 10:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
:[http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2085/01/MPRA_paper_2085.pdf Malta is included]. Check the footnote at page 4. The reason i believe Malta is included is that it is ranked 134 out of 162 in terms of GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) being thus the last European country in the list (World Bank 2006 stats). It is also ranked 193 out of 211 in terms of GDP (real) growth rate. What bothers me is the way Justin uses Malta as a scapegoat to further his POV issues. I believe the matter is sorted out for the time being. -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 11:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:: I am aware World Bank occasionally includes Malta in its definition (although if you review their '''operational usage''', as in the major "Doing Business" project, you find they do not typically include Malta in actual MENA analyses - not for economic, financial or socio-economic studies; I bloody well work on these issues (or rather investment) and track this quite closely.) I also note from footnote one in the paper you linked: '''''1 The definition of MENA followed in this paper includes: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.''''' - This matches typical usage. Of course, as I already noted Turkey is one of those borderline instances where it's hard to say if it is more commonly in the category or out. I am particularly annoyed with his vandalistic editing, as you say "as a scapegoat to further his POV issues." I also would strongly suggest that the current Western Sahara pages could and should be profitably edited to reflect the even-handed critique of all parties by the International Crisis Group (in particular the idealised vision kaovf keeps pimping re Polisario and its 'government in exile' - Moroccan and Algerian sins being rather more obvious and well-reported). [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 11:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC).
:::'''Last word on this''' Western Sahara is a [[List of countries|country]] (in no small part due to the fact that said term is far more vague than even MENA, and has no definition.) I again/still/forevermore have no vested interest in Malta being on this list, nor is it a part of my bloody personal djihad. I have no earthly idea why you want to escalate personal conflicts with your retorts and I wish you'd stop. I have read the reports (there were actually two released simultaneously) from the International Crisis Group, and they are, in fact, well-written, interesting, and I have no doubt accurate. (Do you see how I made that sentence without constructions like "If you weren't such a bloody ignorant child-fool you'd know there were two bloody reports on the bloody Western Sahara, bloody.") Never in my life have I claimed that Polisario were "virgins" nor anyone else in North Africa. Note that every bit of that post was irrelevant to the actual article itself except the second sentence. Why? Because you've just gone on a bloody personal djihad. If you want to talk about me, my editing, my views, feel free to post on my talk. If you want to talk about the MENA article, feel free to post it here. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 15:32, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
::::Country or Jupiter. You have to understand that MENA is a designation having to do w/ business. We don't have to hear the same arguments everywhere and all the time. If you ''have no vested interest in Malta being on this list'' than you are making a POINT. Please stop, it is getting boring indeed. Basta ya hombre! -- [[User:FayssalF|<font size="2px" face="Verdana"><font color="DarkSlateBlue">FayssalF</font></font>]] - <small>[[User talk:FayssalF|<font style="background: gold"><sup>''Wiki me up®''</sup></font>]]</small> 20:44, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
:::: Stop your bloody whinging on mate. You bloody well deface article after article - on subjects you bloody well admit you're bloody fucking ignorant about - due to one bloody obsession. For the sake of a bloody fuck, take a breather. I gots opinions about South Africa, but I ain't no expert, so I keep my hands off. See what I mean? And as for Polisario - your edits show a gullible young fool regurgitating agitprop. Having an opinion is fine, but get some bloody perspective mate. I argue your side when you have a point, you've seen that, but god damn, you keep bloody editing this article inserting Malta, running on as supra about World Bank and then bloody well admitting you know fuck all about the subject you're editing. It is making a goddamned point and while you may not be bloody well "vested" in Malta, you are bloody well vested in defacing every other article with the slightest tangential connexion with your obsession with poorly thought out, poorly informed obsessive edits - as in here, repeatedly, against better advice, in ignorance. I don't go to your bloody talk page because I don't give a flying fuck about you, it's those few subject matters that I do know that I care about. [[User:Collounsbury|collounsbury]] 00:51, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::'''Pools of blood''' It's odd that you would spend so much time cursing at me to say you don't care about my opinion; that makes no sense. Fayssal, if you're implying that I'm breaking [[WP:POINT]], I'm not - I was trying to be consistent with the definition that you wanted to use, namely, the World Bank's. Again, the WB apparently contradicts itself, so the source as such is useless. Feel free to exclude or include Malta for all I care. -[[User:Koavf|Justin (koavf)]]·[[User talk:Koavf|T]]·[[Special:Contributions/Koavf|C]]·[[Special:Emailuser/Koavf|M]] 03:32, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
:::::: to make life easier for koavf, let say it in simple English: the list of MENA includes only sovereign states. All koavf is doing from the beginning is to insert WS in the list. WS is not a sovereign state, and will thus never be added to the article. period. --[[User:A Jalil|A Jalil]] 20:16, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
From 2013 MENAP is more prominent group in IMF reports than MENA. We should create a separate page for MENAP [[User:Buddyonline7|Buddyonline7]] ([[User talk:Buddyonline7|talk]]) 09:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
== Turkey ==
I think Turkey should be included. It is included in the [[Middle East]] section so should by definition be in MENA.[[User:Aa2-2004|Aa2-2004]] ([[User talk:Aa2-2004|talk]]) 14:09, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
:Agreed. Can't understand why it's not. [[User:Cjs2111|Cjs2111]] ([[User talk:Cjs2111|talk]]) 13:19, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
:: MENA is an academic and business writing, you can see the ref which stats that Turkey and Cyrus are not MENA. <br /> – ''[[User:HonorTheKing|HonorTheKing]] ([[User talk:HonorTheKing|talk]])'' 00:13, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
::: Considering the disputed definition of both North Africa and the Middle East, as well as varying usages of MENA, I have edited the page and map to reflect both the standard accepted list of countries and an expanded definition, similar to the articles on North Africa and the Middle East. -[[User:Kudzu1|Kudzu1]] ([[User talk:Kudzu1|talk]]) 06:14, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
== Mauritania ==
The term covers an extensive region, extending from Morocco to Iran, including all Middle Eastern and Maghreb countries.
However, [[Mauritania]], a Maghreb country, is absent from the list and the map. Is this an oversight? — [[User:DanPMK|MK]] (<sup>[[User Talk:DanPMK|t]]</sup>/<sub>[[Special:contributions/DanPMK|c]]</sub>) 03:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
: Iv'e fixed that, <br /> – ''[[User:HonorTheKing|HonorTheKing]] ([[User talk:HonorTheKing|talk]])'' 00:13, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
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== North Africa ==
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== Protection ==
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Someone also needs to add Pakistan back to the additional countries list. I don’t know who would erase it but it is commonly also included in mena. In fact in the same wiki article it says a term called menap was created specifically to add Afghanistan and Pakistan into mena. Why is Pakistan removed from the additional countries it should be put back on and it is more commonly included than Somalia and half the other countries in that category of other countries <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Thewinnerz33|Thewinnerz33]] ([[User talk:Thewinnerz33#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Thewinnerz33|contribs]]) 17:15, 21 July 2019 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
== Reference for the use of this term in the English language? ==
I'm a native English speaker, and have '''never''' come across the term "MENA" before the one single occasion which led me to Google what it meant (thus leading me to the Wikipedia page).
This article says it's an English-language term. If that's so, it needs a citation / etymology / history of use to explain it. For all I know, it could have been made up on the spot. Sources required! [[User:Eurosong|EuroSong]] <sup>[[User_talk:Eurosong|talk]]</sup> 19:20, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
: Well it's an accronym used by the development sector people and derived from English words. Doesn't the reference number 1 (Worldbank) suffice to convince you that this accronym does exist, [[User:Eurosong|EuroSong]]? [[User:EMsmile|EMsmile]] ([[User talk:EMsmile|talk]]) 14:45, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
== Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2019 ==
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You should change "population" to "adult population" in the following sentence :
"According to [[Pew Research Center]], 40% of the population in MENA has completed less than a year of primary school." [[User:Mdruszcz|Mdruszcz]] ([[User talk:Mdruszcz|talk]]) 14:52, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
:[[File:Yes check.svg|20px|link=|alt=]] '''Done'''<!-- Template:ESp --> [[User:Gulumeemee|Gulumeemee]] ([[User talk:Gulumeemee|talk]]) 04:33, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
== Afghanistan and Pakistan ==
The two countries Afghanistan and Pakistan have often times been included in MENA. Pakistan for some reason seems to keep getting vandalized off the other MENA countries list calling it controversial even though countries like Chad Niger Djibouti(countries that I have never ever seen being listed as mena) are on there without controversy. Please stop the vandalism removing Pakistan from this because Afghanistan and Pakistan are on many MANY MENA maps if you google mena map and also the world health organization IMF FBI etc all include them in this region while not including half the other countries on the also sometimes included list so please fix any vandalism That happens to Pakistan or Afghanistan there. [[User:Thewinnerz33|Thewinnerz33]] ([[User talk:Thewinnerz33|talk]]) 15:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
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