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Tech leaders sit as they testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Capitol Hill on May 8, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Hezbollah fighters salute during funeral for comrades killed in Syria, November 8, 2017 (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
