By The Free Press | Created at 2026-10-09 14:52:08 | Updated at 2026-10-09 16:01:16
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How the New Middle East Was Made | Bari Weiss and Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Middle East has dominated the American mind, shaped our foreign policy, and become a fixture of Western discourse. So why do we still misunderstand so much of the region?
Last week I had the privilege of sitting down with one of the foremost historians of our time, Simon Sebag Montefiore. As I write this, his work has never felt more urgent.
“We’re in a new world of counterhistory,” he said recently. “A new world of counterhistory where neither historical facts nor present-time facts matter if they don’t fit the ideologic…
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