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Thinking the Unthinkable: Is the Gulf Next?

Thinking the Unthinkable: Is the Gulf Next?

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Feb 02, 2011
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It’s time to think the unthinkable: Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Gulf states may be getting in line for their turn at confronting widespread popular discontent.

As a wave of mass protests sweeps the Arab world, shaking the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the core, rumblings of popular restlessness are bubbling to the service in the Gulf.
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