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![Dome of the rock and wailing wall in Jerusalem, Israel](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/GettyImages-964322666.jpg?h=b2774bcf&itok=8LR2ZEhQ)
![Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri greets his supporters upon his arrival at his home in Beirut on November 22, 2017 (STR/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/14037/feature_hariri_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=B1FbvaF4)
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Former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri greets his supporters upon his arrival at his home in Beirut on November 22, 2017 (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Muslim Brotherhood supporters carry portraits of ousted president Mohamed Morsi outisde Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, July 26, 2013 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13787/feature_morsi_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=8Wwjg6Ix)
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Muslim Brotherhood supporters carry portraits of ousted president Mohamed Morsi outisde Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo, July 26, 2013 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds a press conference in Istanbul after the AKP victory in the Turkish elections, November 3, 2002 (Staton R. Winter/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13807/feature_erdogan_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=RWmx2Jwj)
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan holds a press conference in Istanbul after the AKP victory in the Turkish elections, November 3, 2002 (Staton R. Winter/Getty Images)
![MSP leader Abderrazak Mokri calls for a boycott of the presidential election, January 31, 2014 (Bachir Zemouri/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13934/feature_mokri_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=uVBc8-ww)
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MSP leader Abderrazak Mokri calls for a boycott of the presidential election, January 31, 2014 (Bachir Zemouri/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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![Members of the Iraqi Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitary forces southwest of Mosul, April 28, 2017 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13993/feature_shaabi_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=LES3NAx2)
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Members of the Iraqi Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) paramilitary forces southwest of Mosul, April 28, 2017 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)
![Tahrir Square, Cairo, January 24, 2016 (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13964/feature_tahrir_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=HtsY8Dmp)
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Tahrir Square, Cairo, January 24, 2016 (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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![Pro-Kurdistan independence rally in Erbil, September 22, 2017 (Image credit: Levi Clancy)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13959/feature_kurdish_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=7PSBGa42)
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Pro-Kurdistan independence rally in Erbil, September 22, 2017 (Image credit: Levi Clancy)
![Supporters gather in Abidjan, during a ceremony marking the 50 years to the day since an independent republic of Biafra was declared, May 30, 2017 (SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/researches/thumb/13950/feature_biafra_featured.jpg?h=ae002e9f&itok=OTAflDTZ)
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Supporters gather in Abidjan, during a ceremony marking the 50 years to the day since an independent republic of Biafra was declared, May 30, 2017 (SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images)
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