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Design: Bronte Dow Photo: Mondalawy/Wikimedia Commons Ten years ago, a wave of popular uprisings erupted across the Middle East, threatening not only local monarchs and dictators but the strategic interests of the Western powers that backed them. In this series, David Wearing looks back on these events, their causes and consequences, and asks what they can teach us about the nature of imperialism in the twenty-first century. – In a small, beleaguered pocket of north-western Syria, the aspira...