Since the explosion of the democratic movements in the Arab world, the Western world has gotten a huge dose of information about the countries experiencing revolution. Marius Deeb, Professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University, explains how looking at Libya’s past – before the Gadhafi regime – may give us clues about what could happen should he fall.
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