The making of the modern Middle East - Simon Sebag Montefiore

How did one extraordinary prince create Saudi Arabia? Why were a million Armenians killed during WWI? How did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah and become ruler of Iran? Why did the Arab Spring fail?

The Middle East has forever been the source of religions, prize of empires, spark-wheel of conflicts, and well of radicalism. No other region has such a hold on our imagination nor such a propensity to unleash mayhem. Yet few know its real history; fewer still understand its variety and cosmopolitanism, its complexity and interconnectedness.

Simon Sebag Montefiore returns to How To Academy with a fresh and unique history of the entire region in all its diversity, from 1900 up to the present day.

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