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Middle East & North Africa in the Modern Era historical figures
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Founder & President of Turkey
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Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel
Saddam Hussein
Dictator of Iraq
Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt
Muammar Gaddafi
Leader of Libya
Gamal Abdel Nasser
President of Egypt
Reza Shah
Shah of Iran
Ruhollah Khomeini
Supreme Leader of Iran
Yasser Arafat
Chairman of the PLO
Umm Kulthum
Singer and actress
Ibn Saud
Founder and King of Saudi Arabia
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Founding President of the United Arab Emirates
Shirin Ebadi
Lawyer and human rights activist
Heydar Aliyev
President of Azerbaijan
Habib Bourguiba
President of Tunisia
Hassan II of Morocco
King of Morocco
Mohammed V of Morocco
King of Morocco
Hafez al-Assad
President of Syria
Bashar al-Assad
Former President of Syria
Hussein of Jordan
King of Jordan
Abdullah I of Jordan
Founding ruler of Jordan
Mustafa Barzani
Kurdish nationalist leader
Rafic Hariri
Prime Minister of Lebanon
Riad Al Solh
Founding statesman of Lebanon
David Ben-Gurion
Founding Prime Minister of Israel
Chaim Weizmann
First President of Israel
Theodor Herzl
Father of modern political Zionism
Levi Eshkol
Prime Minister of Israel
Menachem Begin
Prime Minister of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister of Israel
Shimon Peres
Prime Minister and President of Israel
Ariel Sharon
Prime Minister of Israel
Moshe Dayan
Military leader and politician
Ehud Barak
Prime Minister of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel
Mubarak Al-Sabah
Ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait
Qaboos bin Said
Sultan of Oman
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Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
King of Bahrain
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