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Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, coined a famous term in his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree – Understanding Globalisation: “The…

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It was a turbulent time in the Middle East in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Dramatic politics, shifting alliances and a range of tensions would…

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