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 ... ... Iran–Iraq War took two or three times the number of lives that the Syrian Civil War has. The growing significance of violence as a ... ... 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....