The Arab World: Between Violence and Consensus
... where technological breakthroughs and the 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 name hundreds of works by 20th-century Arab ... ... just one episode. Nobody knows exactly how many such incidents actually took place. 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 a barely audible murmur of discontent ...
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