# Who REALLY Made the Modern Middle East - with Simon Sebag Montefiore (Part 2)

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Podcast: [Call Me Back - with Dan Senor](https://stenobird.com/podcast/call-me-back-with-dan-senor-1366374)
Published: 2026-09-03T04:00:00+00:00
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Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict really at the center of the Middle East? In Part 2 of Dan’s conversation with historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Cauldron, they trace how the balance of power in the Middle East shifted after 9/11, from ...

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