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Qasem Soleimani with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at a 2017 ceremony commemorating the father of Soleimani, in Musalla, Tehran. (Fars Media Corporation via Wikimedia Commons)
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Qasem Soleimani with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis at a 2017 ceremony commemorating the father of Soleimani, in Musalla, Tehran. (Fars Media Corporation via Wikimedia Commons)
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Doha Center, Director of the Proxy Wars Initiative, Carnegie Corporation
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Members of Taliban led government, as well as many Afghan men participate in celebrations marking the 1st anniversary of the US-led troops' withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Members of Taliban led government, as well as many Afghan men, participate in celebrations marking the first anniversary of the US-led troops' withdrawal from the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 31, 2022. (Photo by Bilal Guler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
MA Candidate, Georgetown University and former diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan
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Professor of Security Studies
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Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Egyptian university students gather on November 26, 2013, in Alexandria, Egypt, to protest the anti-demonstration law, which bans protests without prior police approval. (Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
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People gather for an exhibition called "Not a joke, a genocide" to raise awareness against China's policies and human rights violations towards Uyghurs in Istanbul, Turkey on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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People gather for an exhibition called "Not a joke, a genocide" to raise awareness against China's policies and human rights violations towards Uyghurs in Istanbul, Turkey on March 14, 2021. (Photo by Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, focusing on Islam, modernity and public policy
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The grave of H.E. Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid in Jombang, East Java. The inscription on his tombstone, "Here Rests a Humanist," is written in Indonesian, Arabic, English, and Chinese. (Humanitarian Islam)
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The grave of H.E. Kyai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid in Jombang, East Java. The inscription on his tombstone, "Here Rests a Humanist," is written in Indonesian, Arabic, English, and Chinese. (Humanitarian Islam)
General Chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama and Co-founder of the Humanitarian Islam movement
Co-Founder of the Humanitarian Islam movement
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