Yaroslav Trofimov is a staff foreign correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, reporting extensively from Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries.
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On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning-the first of a new Muslim century-hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the G... SEE MORE