The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus
... victory in World War II are often cited as justifications of Stalin’s repressions. Middle Eastern societies have never seen violence as an essential problem. We could... ... Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. The murder of 1270 prisoners at the Abu Salim prison in Libya in 1996 was just one episode. Nobody knows exactly how many such incidents actually... .... The suppression of the Houthi insurgency in Yemen in 2004–2010 (i.e. before the Arab Spring) resulted in several tens of thousands of human casualties. All this caused...