Kim Ghattas is a BBC correspondent covering international affairs and a senior visiting fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is the author of "The Secretary: A Journey With Hillary Clinton From Beirut to the Heart of American Power."
Muslim worshippers perform Friday noon prayer near the Dome of the Rock mosque in Jerusalem's Old City's al-Aqsa mosque compound on Dec. 22, 2017. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Donald Trump (R) and Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah take part in a bilateral meeting at a hotel in Riyadh on May 21, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
BAGHDAD, IRAQ, OCTOBER 25:- A U.S soldier secures the Baghdad Provincial Council site where a car bomb exploded on October 25, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. Two car bombs exploded, targeting the Baghdad Provincial Council and the Ministry of Justice, and killing 136 people and injuring many more. (Photo by Muhannad Fala'ah/Getty Images)
Demonstrators protest in Amsterdam in front of the US Consulate on January 20, 2017 after the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington, DC.
Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday -- capping his improbable journey to the White House and beginning a four-year term that promises to shake up Washington and the world. / AFP / ANP / Olaf KRAAK / Netherlands OUT (Photo credit should read OLAF KRAAK/AFP/Getty Images)
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Lea Baroudi, head of Lebanese NGO "March" and producer of the play "Love and War on the Rooftop: a Tripolitan Tale" by Lebanese director Lucien Bourjeily, speaks ahead of the performance at the Metro Theatre in the capital, Beirut, on June 15, 2015. Bourjeily brought together battle-scarred teens from the two conflicting districts to perform this play to create a common space for them to gather, talk and discuss through the art of theatre. AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images)
RICHARDSON, TX - DECEMBER 12: Armed protesters from the so-called Bureau of American-Islamic Relations (BAIR), take part in a demonstration in front of a mosque on December 12, 2015 in Richardson, Texas. About two dozen members of the group protested in front of the Islamic Association of North Texas mosque, as counter-protesters demonstrated across the street. The Dallas area had become a focal point for so-called Islamophobia, even before the Islamic extremist-inspired December 2 mass shooting in San Bernadino, California. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
