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Weekend Reading: Turkey’s Coups, Iraq’s Descent, and Saudi Arabia’s Jews
Reading selections for the weekend of August 5, 2016.
August 5, 2016 5:45 pm (EST)
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Ayse Zarakol highlights how Western and Turkish observers have interpreted the recent failed coup in Turkey in different ways.
Peter Harling finds that Iraqis do not see much hope for their country’s future even after the self-proclaimed Islamic State is defeated.
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Jessica Steinberg writes that Saudi Arabia’s Jewish history might become more accessible to historians as relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia look to be improving.
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