What was life like in the middle east during imperialism?

This is too big of a question to be answered well here (there were lots of different areas in Middle East, and we're talking about a long period of time).  In addition, I am sure your teacher...

By their technical, scientific and economic advance, through their industrial and commercial power, the Western states, which will add U.S. and Japan, have exercised an overwhelming influence and domination over the rest of the world.

Lying on most of the planet, the hegemony of great powers take many forms:

- economic-imperialism,which aimed mainly providing "places" to obtain  raw materials and other cheap resources for its industry, market sales of industrial goods and capital investments.

- political and military imperialism which endorsed the creation of vast colonial areas directly controlled by metropolis.

-cultural and spiritual imperialism as an expression of the export of cultural models, ideologies and religions.