How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance by Elizabeth F. Thompson

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Liberal-Islamic Alliance

Elizabeth F. Thompson

466 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy―and how the West crushed it When Europe’s Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers...

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