The crisis was a symptom of the growing public resentment over the government’s failure to implement reforms.
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Hassan A Barari is currently a professor of International Relations at Qatar University. He previously taught at different universities including Yale... University, the University of Jordan and Nebraska University of Omaha. He also served as a senior fellow at the US Institute of Peace. He is the author of ten books and a well known commentator on Middle Eastern politics.
The crisis was a symptom of the growing public resentment over the government’s failure to implement reforms.