Definitions for "Mideast"
Mideast is a new, yet still widely unknown geographical term used in urban studies to cluster the rough, hilly North American cities in the former Manufacturing Belt such as: Cleveland, Akron, Buffalo, Erie, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Paterson, Scranton, and Youngstown (including Sharon-Farrell-New Castle, PA).
the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization"