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An employee holds a silicon wafer with chips etched into it as US Vice President Kamala Harris, not pictured, visits Applied Materials in Sunnyvale, California, on May 22, 2023. (Jim Wilson/AFP via Getty Images)
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A blood-stained image of Jesus Christ outside the Al-Qiddissine (The Saints) church after an overnight car bomb attack in Alexandria, January 1, 2011. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptian Coptic Christians at the Virgin Mary church on May 16, 2014 in Cairo's Road al-Farag district. (VIRGINIE NGUYEN HOANG/AFP/Getty Images)
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Palestinian militants of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, in the central Gaza Strip on June 30, 2014. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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Bombed police checkpoint, Tuz Khurmatu, Iraq, June 9, 2014 (Marwan Ibrahim/AFP/Getty Images).
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A Palestinian youth take part in military-inspired exercises organised by the Islamist movement Hamas on June 19, 2014 in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. (SAID KHATIB/AFP/Getty Images)
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai during a meeting in New Delhi on May 27, 2014.(RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Egyptian demonstrators clash with Egyptian police in central Cairo during a protest to demand the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak and calling for reforms on January 25, 2011. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/GettyImages)
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Iraqi Kurds hold the Kurdish flag and a poster of Iraqi Kurdistan's regional president Masoud Barzani (R) in Akra, Iraq's, March 20, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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James Barnett
Research Fellow
Josh Block
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Douglas J. Feith
Senior Fellow
