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Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Abla Amawi

Abla Amawi received her Phd from Georgetown and then worked there as an assistant professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the mid-1990s.

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Democracy Dilemmas in Jordan

On September 2, 1991, the public liberties committee of the lower house of the Jordanian parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, issued a shocking report on torture of political detainees in Jordanian prisons. The shock was not that no one knew these things, but rather that the report had been issued

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