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Elizabeth F. Thompson
Elizabeth F. Thompson is a professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East (Harvard, 2013), …

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* Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
* 楊双子 (Traditional Chinese)