![]() In the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, these were often European colonial empires. The Middle East was controlled by empires until the 20 th century. ![]() First, and most basically, one can discuss the term as a temporal category. The label post-colonial is applied in at least three distinct but related ways. ![]() The first order of business is to define the term in question. If so, how? And what are the consequences? Following a general discussion of debates over post-colonialism, will look more closely at three case studies: Egypt, Iraq, and Iran. In this essay, I will discuss whether a state’s status as post-colonial matters. Endless debates have occurred over how much emphasis to put on the post-colonial nature of these states and their political identities. These states often justified their existence in terms of ideologies that were tied to specific post-colonial, political identities. Following World War Two European power in the Middle East crumbled and a number of post-colonial states emerged. As this essay will detail, debates over the term have provided an important axis around which discussions of political identity revolve. The term “post-colonial” has presented a seminal problem for historians of the 20 th century Middle East.
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