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Shafeeq Ghabra

Shafeeq Ghabra is Professor of Political Science and President of the American University of Kuwait.
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    Series: The World in Words
    2003-11-14
    Tens of millions of Arabs witnessed the toppling of Saddam Hussein last spring, and saw in his fall reflections of their own situation. Rightly so, for Iraq's transition can mark the start of the fall of the "Arab Wall"--the invisible barrier of authoritarianism and rigidity that isolates the region as surely as the Berlin Wall once cut Europe in two. ... read
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