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Subject: Nations and Peoples X
Place: Middle and Near East X
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Intifada is the Arabic word for “shaking off.” It is the name given to two recent popular uprisings of ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
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Iran, Kurdish national autonomy movement
The Kurds are the largest non-state nation in West Asia, and their homeland, Kurdistan, remains distributed ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
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Iran, the Mossadegh era: democratic socialists and the US-backed coup
Imperialist exploitation of Iran was carried out primarily through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (renamed ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
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Pakistan, Bengali nationalist struggles
From 1900 to 1947 there were various types of movements in the Indian subcontinent, some local and ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest
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Saud, Abd al-Aziz ibn (1879–1953) and the founding of modern Saudi Arabia
Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud (hereafter ibn Saud) was born in the city of Riyadh in 1879. Riyadh was the home ...
From The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest