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ng in Egypt and elsewhere. The good news is that a great many of America's allies have already started down the path of reform. Six years ago, King Abdullah II of Saudi Arabia began a gradual but comprehensive program of reform. Many others across the region have also inaugurated reform programs. We can a
ieldy project. The true beneficiary of these uprisings in a historical and geographical sense is Turkey. Ottoman Turkey ruled North Africa and the Levant for hundreds of years in the modern era. While this EFTA_R1_02013864 EFTA02687047 4 rule was despotic, it was not so oppressive as to leave a la
ng in Egypt and elsewhere. The good news is that a great many of America's allies have already started down the path of reform. Six years ago, King Abdullah II of Saudi Arabia began a gradual but comprehensive program of reform. Many others across the region have also inaugurated reform programs. We can a
ieldy project. The true beneficiary of these uprisings in a historical and geographical sense is Turkey. Ottoman Turkey ruled North Africa and the Levant for hundreds of years in the modern era. While this EFTA00586527 4 rule was despotic, it was not so oppressive as to leave a lasting scar on tod
jordan_reform.pdf) Marwan Muasher May 2011 - On February 1, 2011, after weeks of protests that preceded the uprisings in both Tunisia and Egypt, King Abdullah II dismissed the unpopular government of Samir Rifai and entrusted Marouf Al Bakhit, an ex-army general and former prime minister, with forming a new go
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030067 →, nationalism, and socialism. Ibn Khaldun's analysis was based on his native North Africa, but it can be adapted to the conditions of the Mashreq, or Levant-where similar historical conditions prevailed. As Albert Hourani explained in his magisterial History of the Arab Peoples (1991), 'asabiyya is a forc
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030088 →Entities connected to both Abdullah II and Levant

Barack Obama
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Lebanon
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United States
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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George W. Bush
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Cairo
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Saddam Hussein
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Tunisia
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Yemen
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Middle East
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Marc Rich
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Riyadh
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Jerusalem
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Bahrain
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