Anti-Shia polemics generally overemphasize the transnational connections of Arab Shia communities, while Arab Shia leaders often downplay them, stating that the national affiliation is the most important trait of Arab Shia identity.
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With an escalating logic almost built into the Syrian war, an inexperienced, belligerent and ambitious young royal in charge in Riyadh, a trigger-happy Erdogan shooting down Russian planes, and sectarianism as rampant as ever, the future of Saudi Arabia and the region is more unpredictable than it has been for a long time.
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The execution of Nimr al-Nimr has brought the Middle East to a boiling point. But his beliefs were more complicated than anyone will admit.
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IS exploits one of the Gulf states’ main contradictions
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