The Oil‐Blessed Sheiks of Modern Araby - The New York Times

Mar 5, 1972 · Bahrain ranks eight places below Abu Dhabi among Middle East oil producers, but it got a 20‐year head start in the royal art of spending oil revenues, now running about …

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How has the Arab Spring impacted the Middle East?

Ten years later, the collisions between that old order and the popular uprisings across the Middle East in 2011 that became known as the Arab Spring have left much of the region in smoldering ruins. Wars in Libya and Yemen have reduced those countries to shattered mosaics of competing militias. ...

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