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As we prepared this book to go to press, the Arab world underwent a series of cataclysmic revolutions, the results of which are not yet known and may not become known for months or even years. With the help of new alternative technologies of communication, such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter, young freedom-loving activists managed to penetrate through an iron wall that many Arab dictators and despots have used to keep their people under repression for centuries.
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Stern, S.N. (2011). Epilogue. In: Stern, S.N. (eds) Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370715_16
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