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Africa and Middle East
Post Ottoman Nepotism: The New Turkish Finance Minister
Berat Albayrak’s appointment as the Minister of Finance in Turkey has rattled fears of nepotism and the conglomeration of power…
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Africa and Middle East
Iranian Revolution- The Beginning
Discontent with the Iranian ruling family had been growing since a CIA intervention in 1953 helped put it in to…
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Africa and Middle East
The Arab Spring: Where Are They Now?
The Arab Spring was a series of uprisings and rebellions staged in anti-government protests all around the Middle East in 2011.…
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Africa and Middle East
Lebanon: The Rumblings of Civil War
The maintenance of the National Pact’s status quo immensely affected Lebanese civil life. In the country, divisions of wealth and…
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Africa and Middle East
Pre-Civil War in Lebanon: Circumstance After French Retreat
Shiites are a sect of Muslims, second in number only to Sunnis. The faction between the two groups occurred early…
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Africa and Middle East
The Balfour Declaration: Creation of Conflict?
The British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour expressed his official support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in…
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