The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus

... II are often cited as justifications of Stalin’s repressions. Middle Eastern societies have never seen violence as an essential ... ... Gaddafi. The murder of 1270 prisoners at the Abu Salim prison in Libya in 1996 was just one episode. Nobody knows exactly how many ... ... the Houthi insurgency in Yemen in 2004–2010 (i.e. before the Arab Spring) resulted in several tens of thousands of human casualties.... ... times nevertheless, while there has only been a slight increase in Algeria, although the figure was rather high in that country to ...