Smith had traveled in the Middle East before the Second World War, and lived and taught in Lahore of pre-1947 India.

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He also traveled to the Middle East that year to report on the second anniversary of the war in Iraq.

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One possible diplomatic payback to Spain would be hosting a second Middle East Peace Conference, similar to the one it hosted after the first Gulf War in 1991.

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