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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth Thompson

Guerrilla History

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Syria and the Ottoman Empire

The fata people were educated in France. They had copies of woodrel wilson's own text book on politics and state making. It was one of the first kind of real text books in political science written. And they saw our federal form of government with state's rights, a model of what they wanted within the ottoman empire. So they go underground, during the war, and ally with people who are an exile in cairo,. People like shrashidrida, who forms something called the syrian union party. When the war ends, visel and his army enter damascus to build that government.

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