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The Regime
November 7, 2011
The pro-democracy demonstrations that swept through the Middle East in the early 2010s transformed the region. FRONTLINE documentaries and reporting traced some of these uprisings from their earliest days and documented how governments responded — from Egypt to Syria to Libya.
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