Episode

Who REALLY Made the Modern Middle East - with Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Aug 31, 2026

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2693

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Summary

How much of the Middle East’s history was actually shaped by the West? The story most of us learned about who created the modern Middle East is incomplete. Dan is joined by historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Cauldron, who argues that we gi...