By The Free Press | Created at 2026-09-29 09:07:03 | Updated at 2026-09-29 10:17:14
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How the Middle East Got So Screwed Up, with Simon Sebag Montefiore
A sweeping conversation about nationalism, revolution, religion, and the history behind today’s Middle East.
“Let’s whisper it,” said historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. “The Trump blockade is working.” It can be hard to parse the state of play in the Middle East amid escalating rhetoric, but history gives us the necessary perspective to call balls and strikes in the present day. Today, the author of The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East joins Schoo…
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