It looks like people in the Middle East wonder whether President Barack Obama, who is visiting their country later this week to make what is being billed as a historic address to the world’s Muslims, is himself a Muslim. A lot more than Americans do, at the moment. Check out what happens if you start searching on Google for “Obama” after telling the search engine that your “region” is Egypt:
Looks like they want to know more about his middle name, too. (I found the same results for Syria, Saudi Arabia and Israel, which suggests that the Google search engine is aggregating results from the whole region rather than one country.) The same search, originated in the U.S., shows more domestic interests (including the “birthers” obsession with his citizenship):
It should be interesting to see what people in the Middle East want to know about Obama after his visit.