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1. How the West stole democracy from the Arabs: the Syrian Congress of 1920 and the destruction of its historic liberal-Islamic alliance

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Thompson, Elizabeth F.
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"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. Faisal won American support for self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference, but other Entente...