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by Rami G. Khouri, 3 Aug 2013 | http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
BEIRUT -- Hold on to your seats, for the four most powerful and influential Arab countries -- Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- are simultaneously experiencing significant, sometimes violent, internal changes that touch on the most basic elements of identity, power and national authority. What happens in those countries in the years ahead will shape the region for generations perhaps, perhaps creating new patterns of stable statehood on the way. Saudi Arabia does not experience the upheavals of Iraq, Syria and Egypt, but its own new internal dynamics portend historic changes underway in that country and throughout the Gulf region -- because some citizens no longer accept blindly to follow the rules of the 18-19th Century foundational tenets of the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance.
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