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Opinion: When History Ignores a Turning Point

Opinion: When History Ignores a Turning Point

by | May 30, 2014 | Opinion

Three years ago, as Egypt and a few other Arab countries were in the throes of popular revolt, some of us wondered whether events would turn the way they did in Europe in 1848. In that year virtually the whole of continental Europe, from France to the borders of...