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Simon Mabon · 2020
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Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN) · Mabon, Simon (2020), Houses built on sand, Manchester University Press - licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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VIOLENCE, SECTARIANISM AN REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST
MANCHESTER. 1824
Building Beirut, transforming Jerusalem and breaking Basra The people want the fall of the regime o N AU RA WY Fe
Conclusion: The end of the dream
Selected bibliography Index viii
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