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Sunday, March 27, 2011

THE LESSONS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE





Amid the fury of the Arab awakening – not to mention the West deepening crisis over Libya – old Constantinople is a tonic, a reminder amid minarets and water, palaces and museums and bookshops and an ancient parliament and a thousand fish restaurants that this really was the only united capital the Arabs ever had (I disagree) .. Robert Fisk argues that Ottoman adventures hold lessons for the leaders of the West ... 

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