Many of my Middle Eastern students up until 2016 expressed admiration for American democracy, the country’s emphasis on human rights, the civil rights movement and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. Turkey long considered itself a democracy, students said, modeled after the US. The Constitution of the United Arab Emirates, written in 1971, stated that …
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