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Dec 2017
31m 34s

Saudi Arabia's greatest change, the GCC ...

The National Uae
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The Middle East in 2017 could look like relatively tame year in a region that has become so characteristic of extreme often dramatic changes.  The Arab world has become a stage for an ever shifting political reality, with coups, civil wars and millions of people displaced from conflict in the last ten years. Despite all of this, the Arabian Gulf typically r ... Show More
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