Jan 28, 2022
SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE GLOBAL MIDDLE EAST Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. Many accounts of the Arab Spring of 2010-11 view it primarily through a political lens: whatever the underlying grievances, its goals centered around removing autocrats from power and replacing them with more responsive governments. Historian...
Jan 7, 2022
SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE GLOBAL MIDDLE EAST Interviewer: MATTHEW BERKMAN. The story of Palestine, as much as its territory, has been subsumed by Israel, its recent history typically told as a chronicle of the Jewish state’s establishment, development, and defense. In his new book, The Hundred Years’ War: A History of...