Middle East and North Africa
- Abu Dhabi - Shakhbut bin Dhiyab, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi (1793–1816)
- Algeria -
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- Hadj Ali, Dey of Algiers (1809–1815)
- Mohammed Khaznadji, Dey of Algiers (one month, 1815)
- Omar Agha, Dey of Algiers (1815–1817)
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- Morocco - Slimane, Sultan of Morocco (1792–1822)
- Persia - Fat′h Ali Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (1797–1834)
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“The blood of Abraham, God’s father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God—an anguished cry for peace.”
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“The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the
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—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
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—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
“The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love?
Betray them both, or give back what they give?
How can I face such slaughter and be cool?
How can I turn from Africa and live?”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)