Will Bashar al Assad be in power one year from now?

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If he's still alive by then, probably.

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That's from the confusion between 'the Arab World' and the Middle East. The latter is basically just the Levant, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Armenian Highlands (both of which have a slightly confused status but lets ignore that), the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt and Persia. You would describe Tunisia as being part of the Mahgreb or North Africa.

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but it seems it is generally used in a much broader way in English.

Not really, though (due to North Africa not really having much of a presence in Anglophone societies) people do slip up.

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I think that's just idiocy.