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

By Elizabeth F. Thompson
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By Elizabeth F. Thompson
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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 and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs’ military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria.

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HistoryMiddle Eastern HistoryMiddle Eastern History - Modern - General & MiscellaneousSyria - History