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The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.
Fouad Ajami
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Fouad Ajami
Age: 68 †
Born: 1945
Born: September 19
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
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Fouad A. Ajami
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