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there's also a newsagency called mena. see: mena.org.eg
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 ( Collounsbury 08:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)).
Why, Jalil? As the article explicitly states, there is no one definition of MENA, but the guideline is the "Middle East" and "North Africa." 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)? - Justin (koavf)· T· C· M 03:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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. ( collounsbury 10:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
From 2013 MENAP is more prominent group in IMF reports than MENA. We should create a separate page for MENAP Buddyonline7 ( talk) 09:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
I think Turkey should be included. It is included in the Middle East section so should by definition be in MENA. Aa2-2004 ( talk) 14:09, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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? — MK ( t/ c) 03:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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per North Africa definition and munich study sources suggest Sudan is among MENA countries! these terms are vague and ack of consistency. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.96.33.22 ( talk) 14:26, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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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 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thewinnerz33 ( talk • contribs) 17:15, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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! EuroSong talk 19:20, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
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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." Mdruszcz ( talk) 14:52, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
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. Thewinnerz33 ( talk) 15:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Add Mali, South Sudan, Malta, and all Central Asian Countries to the Sometimes included list — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam Hegazy337259 ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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Remove the pew pew from the demographics section 156.221.177.178 ( talk) 05:43, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
South Sudan ( https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/3/12/south-sudan-requests-to-join-arab-league https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/3/12/south-sudan-requests-to-join-arab-league) and Chad ( https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140412-south-sudan-and-chad-apply-to-join-the-arab-league/) are sometimes considered part of MENA is sometimes considered part of MENA. Both countries are a lot closer culturally to the Middle East and North Africa, both practice Arab or Semi-Arab (in the case of South Sudan) cultures, have a substantial population that speaks Arabic as a native language or use it as a lingua franca in day-to-day life, and both have a history of embracing or partially embracing Arabization. These two countries have more in common with the rest of the MENA countries than Ethiopia and Eritrea do with rest of the MENA. South Sudan and Chad should go into the Sometimes included or Rarely included categories. ItsLife1 ( talk) 17:31, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Apart from Iberian Peninsula it's about the same area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.29.198.129 ( talk) 11:09, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Turkey should be dark blue since it's "Almost always included", especially in the literal traditional definition of the Middle East. It is always considered part of the very traditional definition of the Middle East. Hgh1985 ( talk) 08:20, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
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Change Turkey to Türkiye 79.242.158.208 ( talk) 07:18, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Turkey is a main MENA country politically and geographically 37.231.33.232 ( talk) 01:37, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
This article is about the region of the Middle East and North Africa. "MENA" just happens to be one acronym that can be used for the region, along with WANA, SWANA, NAWA, and others mentioned in the article. MENA is by no means an official or proper name with a universially-recognized area – it's awfully odd for the lead to begin with "MENA is an acronym for..." when the article is about the region, not this acronym in particular. Sure, different organizations define the Middle East and North Africa differently, but again, the full name and takes priority. More particularly, "Middle East and North Africa" is the common name. Sources in the definitions section include "Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa", "The situation of stateless persons in the Middle East and North Africa", "Seizing the Opportunity: Ending AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa", and "Challenges of growth and globalization in the Middle East and North Africa", all of which use the full name as the primary usage and the acronym as shorthand later. We have the articles Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa and Demographics of the Middle East and North Africa which use the full name because that's what's common and recognizable. Reywas92 Talk 22:07, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
The full edit summary was "Per talk page, the common name is "Middle East and North Africa", and MENA is just one acronym for that. We have pages like Demographics of the Middle East and North Africa and Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa because all of these articles are about the region, not this particular acronym (one of several possible). NATO is a universal proper noun with a specific subject and therefore a poor comparison." Additional sources are the World Bank: Middle East and North Africa, UN Human Rights: Middle East and North Africa Section, European Union: Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and US Geologic Study: Middle East and North Africa. MENA is a parenthetical that has to be explained, not the more common name that can stand alone. Reywas92 Talk 22:16, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved.
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. The current consensus from this RM is that these are not met, and that means that MENA is not a good title for the article. I also don't see the COMMONNAME arguments being too strong – as provided, plenty of sources use Middle East and North Africa in the title and/or first mention and then provide the abbreviation, before abbreviating it in future mentions, which would put both titles in common use. With all that considered, I'm closing this RM as moved. (
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MENA → Middle East and North Africa – "Middle East and North Africa" is the common name for the region, and the article is about the region, not an acronym for the region. See sources used in the article's "Definitions" section "Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa", "The situation of stateless persons in the Middle East and North Africa", "Seizing the Opportunity: Ending AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa", and "Challenges of growth and globalization in the Middle East and North Africa", all of which use the full name as the primary usage and the acronym as shorthand later. Also see the World Bank: Middle East and North Africa, UN Human Rights: Middle East and North Africa Section, European Union: Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and US Geologic Study: Middle East and North Africa. MENA is a parenthetical abbreviation that has to be explained, not the more common name that can stand alone. Reywas92 Talk 23:30, 12 August 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 08:13, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
The sources I see always use it after Middle East and North AfricaI can list plenty of reliable sources (including books) that use it all by itself. M.Bitton ( talk) 20:16, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
In general, if readers somewhat familiar with the subject are likely to only recognise the name by its acronym, then the acronym should be used as a titleseems pertinent here. The argument that MENA is a parenthetical abbreviation that has to be explained, not the more common name that can stand alone therefore seems plausible to me, so I am tentatively in favour of the requested move at the moment. I'm curious what others are going to say. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 00:13, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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there's also a newsagency called mena. see: mena.org.eg
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 ( Collounsbury 08:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)).
Why, Jalil? As the article explicitly states, there is no one definition of MENA, but the guideline is the "Middle East" and "North Africa." 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)? - Justin (koavf)· T· C· M 03:59, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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. ( collounsbury 10:16, 21 June 2007 (UTC))
From 2013 MENAP is more prominent group in IMF reports than MENA. We should create a separate page for MENAP Buddyonline7 ( talk) 09:54, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
I think Turkey should be included. It is included in the Middle East section so should by definition be in MENA. Aa2-2004 ( talk) 14:09, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
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? — MK ( t/ c) 03:33, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
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per North Africa definition and munich study sources suggest Sudan is among MENA countries! these terms are vague and ack of consistency. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.96.33.22 ( talk) 14:26, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
semi protected.-- Dlohcierekim ( talk) 13:17, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
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 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thewinnerz33 ( talk • contribs) 17:15, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
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! EuroSong talk 19:20, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
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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." Mdruszcz ( talk) 14:52, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
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. Thewinnerz33 ( talk) 15:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
Add Mali, South Sudan, Malta, and all Central Asian Countries to the Sometimes included list — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam Hegazy337259 ( talk • contribs) 00:51, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
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Remove the pew pew from the demographics section 156.221.177.178 ( talk) 05:43, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
South Sudan ( https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/3/12/south-sudan-requests-to-join-arab-league https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/3/12/south-sudan-requests-to-join-arab-league) and Chad ( https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140412-south-sudan-and-chad-apply-to-join-the-arab-league/) are sometimes considered part of MENA is sometimes considered part of MENA. Both countries are a lot closer culturally to the Middle East and North Africa, both practice Arab or Semi-Arab (in the case of South Sudan) cultures, have a substantial population that speaks Arabic as a native language or use it as a lingua franca in day-to-day life, and both have a history of embracing or partially embracing Arabization. These two countries have more in common with the rest of the MENA countries than Ethiopia and Eritrea do with rest of the MENA. South Sudan and Chad should go into the Sometimes included or Rarely included categories. ItsLife1 ( talk) 17:31, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
Apart from Iberian Peninsula it's about the same area. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.29.198.129 ( talk) 11:09, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Turkey should be dark blue since it's "Almost always included", especially in the literal traditional definition of the Middle East. It is always considered part of the very traditional definition of the Middle East. Hgh1985 ( talk) 08:20, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
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Change Turkey to Türkiye 79.242.158.208 ( talk) 07:18, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
Turkey is a main MENA country politically and geographically 37.231.33.232 ( talk) 01:37, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
This article is about the region of the Middle East and North Africa. "MENA" just happens to be one acronym that can be used for the region, along with WANA, SWANA, NAWA, and others mentioned in the article. MENA is by no means an official or proper name with a universially-recognized area – it's awfully odd for the lead to begin with "MENA is an acronym for..." when the article is about the region, not this acronym in particular. Sure, different organizations define the Middle East and North Africa differently, but again, the full name and takes priority. More particularly, "Middle East and North Africa" is the common name. Sources in the definitions section include "Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa", "The situation of stateless persons in the Middle East and North Africa", "Seizing the Opportunity: Ending AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa", and "Challenges of growth and globalization in the Middle East and North Africa", all of which use the full name as the primary usage and the acronym as shorthand later. We have the articles Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa and Demographics of the Middle East and North Africa which use the full name because that's what's common and recognizable. Reywas92 Talk 22:07, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
The full edit summary was "Per talk page, the common name is "Middle East and North Africa", and MENA is just one acronym for that. We have pages like Demographics of the Middle East and North Africa and Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa because all of these articles are about the region, not this particular acronym (one of several possible). NATO is a universal proper noun with a specific subject and therefore a poor comparison." Additional sources are the World Bank: Middle East and North Africa, UN Human Rights: Middle East and North Africa Section, European Union: Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and US Geologic Study: Middle East and North Africa. MENA is a parenthetical that has to be explained, not the more common name that can stand alone. Reywas92 Talk 22:16, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved.
MOS:ACROTITLE states both Acronyms should be used in a page name if the subject is known primarily by its abbreviation and that abbreviation is primarily associated with the subject
and In general, if readers somewhat familiar with the subject are likely to only recognise the name by its acronym, then the acronym should be used as a title
. The current consensus from this RM is that these are not met, and that means that MENA is not a good title for the article. I also don't see the COMMONNAME arguments being too strong – as provided, plenty of sources use Middle East and North Africa in the title and/or first mention and then provide the abbreviation, before abbreviating it in future mentions, which would put both titles in common use. With all that considered, I'm closing this RM as moved. (
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MENA → Middle East and North Africa – "Middle East and North Africa" is the common name for the region, and the article is about the region, not an acronym for the region. See sources used in the article's "Definitions" section "Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa", "The situation of stateless persons in the Middle East and North Africa", "Seizing the Opportunity: Ending AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa", and "Challenges of growth and globalization in the Middle East and North Africa", all of which use the full name as the primary usage and the acronym as shorthand later. Also see the World Bank: Middle East and North Africa, UN Human Rights: Middle East and North Africa Section, European Union: Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and US Geologic Study: Middle East and North Africa. MENA is a parenthetical abbreviation that has to be explained, not the more common name that can stand alone. Reywas92 Talk 23:30, 12 August 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. — DaxServer ( t · m · e · c) 08:13, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
The sources I see always use it after Middle East and North AfricaI can list plenty of reliable sources (including books) that use it all by itself. M.Bitton ( talk) 20:16, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
In general, if readers somewhat familiar with the subject are likely to only recognise the name by its acronym, then the acronym should be used as a titleseems pertinent here. The argument that MENA is a parenthetical abbreviation that has to be explained, not the more common name that can stand alone therefore seems plausible to me, so I am tentatively in favour of the requested move at the moment. I'm curious what others are going to say. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 00:13, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
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