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1970 - 19801978 Political Crackdown in Tunis admin / March 3, 2025 Muhammad al-Hādī Ibn Ṣāliḥ’s (1945 – 2019, Tunisia) Safar al-Nuqla wa al-Taṣawwur (‘The journey of transformation and perception’, 1988) and
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1975 – 1988 Lebanese Civil War1982 Hezbollah in Lebanon admin / March 3, 2025 Fawzī Dhubyān (?, Lebanon) – Ūrwīl fī al-Ḍāḥiyah al-Junūbiya (‘Orwell in the southern neighbourhoods’, 2017). After Hezbollah takes control over
1975 – 1988 Lebanese Civil War1988- After the Civil War admin / March 3, 2025 Māzin Ḥaydar (?, Lebanon) – Fūr Stībs Dāwn (‘Four Steps Down’, 2017). Rājī, a Lebanese architect who fled to Paris
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