Dan Senor
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first heard Jun 2026
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Bag Montefiore argues that it is also radically incomplete.
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His new book, The Cauldron, tells the story of the entire Middle East, from Morocco to Iran, from 1900 to the wars of 2026.
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In between are the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of modern Turkey and the Arab states, the birth of Israel, the Cold War.
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Nasser and Pan Arabism, the Shah and the Iranian Revolution, the rise of Islamism, the American era in the region, the emergence of Erdogan and Mohammed bin Salman, the long reign of Benjamin Netanyahu, october seventh, the Gaza War, and the wars with Iran.
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And one of its central ideas is that we give outsiders far too much credit for making the region, and the people who actually live there far too little agency.
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The Middle East was not simply acted upon, it was shaped by Ottoman sultans and Saudi kings, Arab nationalists and Iranian revolutionaries, Zionists and Islamists, generals and monarchs, tribes and religious movements all competing for power, territory, survival, and legitimacy.
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And many of the forces we tend to think of as modern may actually be much older.
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Empires never really disappeared.
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Great powers often discovered that their supposed clients had agendas of their own.
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and the European style nation states may have been an awkward fit for a region whose societies were historically far more mixed, ethnically, religiously, and politically than the borders suggested.
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Today, Simon argues, the story may be turning again.
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Iran, Turkey, and Israel have become the region's leading military powers.
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Saudi Arabia has replaced Egypt as the dominant Sunni Arab state.
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Similar, smaller Gulf monarchies project power thousands of miles beyond their borders.
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In conflicts once neatly separated into the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and Europe.
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Are beginning to collide.
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So perhaps the question isn't simply who made the modern Middle East.
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Perhaps it is whether the Middle East we have known for the last hundred years is now coming to an end.
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I can think of few books more important to read since October 7th, 2023, than Simon's new book, The Cauldron.
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He is a prolific writer.
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