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Word: abdulatif (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

...reason is simple. To a Western eye, the list of authoritarian transgressions is chilling, but to those who live in the Middle East, Kuwait was something of a model of political openness. "The fact is that we could criticize everything, even the Emir, without fear of reprisal," says Abdulatif al-Tourah, a KPC employee. "If you spoke out as freely in other Arab societies as we did all the time in Kuwait, you could be jailed or killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toward A New Kuwait | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

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