Middle East and North Africa
- Egypt (Under Ottoman suzerainty) - Abbas I, Governor of Egypt (1849–1854)
- Kuwait - Sheikh Jabir ibn Abdullah Al Sabah, Ruler of Kuwait (1814–1859)
- Morocco - Abderrahmane, Sultan of Morocco (1822–1859)
- Oman - Sa'id II ibn Sultan, Sultan of Oman (1804–1856)
- Persia - Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia (1848–1896)
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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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“From the east to western Inde,
No jewel is like Rosalind.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.”
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
“I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like the Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.”
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