The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus

... cited as justifications of Stalin’s repressions. Middle Eastern societies have never seen violence as ... ... took two or three times the number of lives that the Syrian Civil War has. The growing significance of violence ... ... murder of 1270 prisoners at the Abu Salim prison in Libya in 1996 was just one episode. Nobody knows exactly ... ... insurgency in Yemen in 2004–2010 (i.e. before the Arab Spring) resulted in several tens of thousands ... .... The number of non-governmental organizations in Tunisia has more than doubled since 2011, and by almost ...