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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
Hussein, in his place behind the wheel, was looking angrily at his watch and muttering inaudibly. One of the waiting truck drivers approached him and said plainly, “No goods can get through without the right documents.” Hussein quickly got out of the minibus and went up to the makeshift office. He paid a bribe known as a goods-transit document, and
... See moreKhaled Khalifa • Death Is Hard Work
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
States generously provided the emergency financial aid to Iran that had been denied Mossadegh. The new Iranian government responded by agreeing to a new oil concession with an international consortium, with Iran receiving 50 percent of the proceeds. British Petroleum retained 40 percent of the shares in the consortium, five American companies held
... See moreJean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Flagrantly brutal and corrupt, Mubarak was nevertheless America’s loyal friend for more than thirty years. And after a single week of demonstrations that, though highly publicized, involved a fraction of Egypt’s 85 million inhabitants, the United States abandoned him.