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These colonial powers worked to divide the region and encouraged local tyranny formed according to their whims; they also encouraged the great lie that our region is inhabited by the problem of chronic sectarianism, ignoring the region\u2019s real exposure to geographical, cultural, epistemological, and political distortions, in which European and American imperialism played a fundamental role.<\/p>\n<p>But to tell this history of coexistence as history \u2013 not as fantasy, or wishful thinking, ideology, problematics, or self-loathing \u2013 we must be able to accept contradiction and imperfection. We must honestly face the Islamic, Ottoman, and Arab past as it was, not as we want it to be. We must understand why in the modern age we have resorted to romantic narratives of bygone golden ages. 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