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I made this post because I've been feeling bleh about using "Middle East". Feels like a term made up by Usania, also feels like otherizing Anatolians-Arabians-Iranians, despite being from the Continent of Asia.
Idk why I feel this, but yeah. I also wanted to know how y'all refer to it (also want to know how I should refer to it, since I'm at a crossroads myself)
Depends on the topic. If the topic was about the Middle East region, I use "Middle East"; if it was about the Muslim countries there, I use "Arab world"; but most of the time, it was about specific countries, like "Iran", or "Palestine".