Ussama Makdisi
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Teaching about self-determination this week. At the end of WWI, Woodrow Wilson spoke about "self-determination," though he never meant immediate emancipation of the colonized. So "advanced" Western powers invented "
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Some historical context for #Lebanon and its sectarian system.1. The initial sectarian system was introduced in mid-19th century in Mount Lebanon when the Arab East was under Ottoman rule.
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