Middle East

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Across
  1. 1. A valley or channel that is dry except for in its rainy seasons
  2. 4. Also known as the Rub’ al Khali, and roughly the size of France
  3. 6. Fertile land in a desert where water is found
  4. 7. A process that removes mineral components from saline water
  5. 10. Site of many significant biblical events
Down
  1. 2. One of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth
  2. 3. The place where refining or processing something takes place
  3. 5. The place where Muslims worship
  4. 8. The larger of the two main branches of Islam
  5. 9. Ultraconservative political and religious group that emerged in Afghanistan