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The Iberian Realm of Islam
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Six Days That Shook The World
The Collapse of Ottoman Power
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name
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The Battle For 1948
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June 2017: The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War
Middle Eastern Politics & Culture: Today & Yesterday
At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial
Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa
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A Basis for Hope in the Middle East
A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
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Can Iraq Learn to Live in Peace?
Yom Kippur: A First Step to Peace
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October 2014: Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later
The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring
October 2013: Middle East Remains Unstable 30 Years after Attacks on Peacekeepers in Lebanon
March 2013: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, 10 Years Later
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