Dan Senor

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4,588 appearances 37 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard today

Dan Senor’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor · Who REALLY Made the Modern Middle East - with Simon Sebag Montefiore · 31 Aug 2026 podcast

You say that's not the case in the Middle East. voice-verified

See ya there. voice-verified

Um, Simon, the beginning of the book, the region is extraordinarily diverse. voice-verified

We learn about Jews and Christians and Muslims and Armenians and Greeks and Kurds and Turkmen and Aziz and obviously Arabs, Persians. voice-verified

By the end, much of that mosaic has disappeared, or at least it's very it's concentrated. voice-verified

You have these populations, but they're in very specific places. voice-verified

How did we get here? voice-verified

Of the population of the Middle East was Christian. voice-verified

Okay, we talk about the limits of Western influence in the region, but these states, the West did create these nation states, right? voice-verified

So Libya, modern day Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, what we think of of of these countries, these are these are nation states that were created by Western powers. voice-verified

They are very fragile today. voice-verified

These states. voice-verified

So in areas where the West did try to construct, you know, kind of piece together peoples and and kind of create these nation states, integrating them to some degree into within borders that many cases made no sense. voice-verified

Me, this question is is could be its own episode. voice-verified

I I lived and breathed some of these decisions in terms of the political organization of Iraq today, but I think you're right. voice-verified

I want to talk about I spent a little bit of time here on Iran. voice-verified

Where do you put the revolution in Iran, the Islamic revolution in Iran in in 1979? voice-verified

Where does that fit in terms of significance of this period? voice-verified

The entirety of the period you're covering. voice-verified

Change everything. voice-verified

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