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CAST OF CHARACTERS

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

First president of Turkey, 1923–38

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

President of Turkey, 2014–current

Ara Sarafian

British-Armenian historian of the Armenian genocide

David Ben-Gurion

First prime minister of Israel, 1955–63

Benjamin Netanyahu

Current prime minister of Israel

Ilan Shohat

Mayor of Safed

Yona Yahav

Mayor of Haifa

Shimon Gafsou

Mayor of Nazareth Illit

Haviva Aranyi

Holocaust survivor

Yehuda Bauer

Israeli historian of the Holocaust

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Arabian founder of Wahhabism/Salafism

Izz ad-Din al-Qassam

Syrian cleric and an architect of modern Sunni jihadism

Abdullah Azzam

Palestinian cleric and founding member of al-Qaeda

Osama bin Laden

Arabian founder of al-Qaeda

Abu Qatada al-Filistini

Jordanian leader of Palestinian jihadism

Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi

Jordanian-Palestinian spiritual mentor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Jordanian founder of al-Qaeda in Iraq/the Islamic State

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Iraqi leader of the Islamic State

Muqtada al-Sadr

Iraqi leader of the Sadrist Movement

Saddam Hussein

President of Iraq, 1979–2003

Nouri al-Maliki

Prime minister of Iraq, 2006–14

Haider al-Abadi

Prime minister of Iraq, 2014–current

Ali Sistani

Leading grand ayatollah in Najaf

Abu Jaafar al-Darraji

Senior commander of the Badr Organization

Mohammed Dahlan

Palestinian politician, security advisor to Abu Dhabi crown prince

Mansour Malik

Founder, Islamic Law Chambers

Sayyid Abu Musameh

Former leader of Hamas in Gaza