Middle East

The Middle East (or, formerly more common, the Near East) is a region that spans southwestern Asia and northern Africa. Mistakenly and only in the last five to seven years some have added Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India to the list of Middle Eastern countries. However, those three countries are located in South Asia not the Middle East.

The fictional country known as Azaran was also located in the Middle East. Azaran was a pivotal setting in the The Andromeda Breakthrough television series, itself a sequel to the short-lived 1961 series A for Andromeda.

In the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman, OSI agent Jaime Sommers was sent to an unidentified Persian Gulf country where she had to go undercover as a tutor to the Crown Prince, a young boy named Ishmael. The true purpose of her mission was to prevent an assassination attempt against Shah Ali Ben Gazim by the country's Prime Minister.

Points of Interest

 * Afghanistan
 * Azaran
 * Egypt
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Iran
 * Iraq
 * Israel
 * Syria

TV shows that take place in

 * Andromeda Breakthrough, The
 * "Cold Front"
 * "Gale Warning"
 * "Azaran Forecast"
 * "Storm Centres"
 * "Hurricane"
 * "The Roman Peace"


 * Bionic Woman, The
 * "Jaime and the King"