Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Well, my favorite one recently is the shortest one, which is Zelensky, We Are Here.
Well, my favorite one recently is the shortest one, which is Zelensky, We Are Here.
Well, my favorite one recently is the shortest one, which is Zelensky, We Are Here.
You'll be surprised by this, but it would have been Baghdad under Harun al-Rashid and the time of the 1001 Nights. Why? Because it was so... The Arab civilisation was so sophisticated and complex. The singing, the poetry, the mathematics, the algebra. And it was so sexy, too.
You'll be surprised by this, but it would have been Baghdad under Harun al-Rashid and the time of the 1001 Nights. Why? Because it was so... The Arab civilisation was so sophisticated and complex. The singing, the poetry, the mathematics, the algebra. And it was so sexy, too.
You'll be surprised by this, but it would have been Baghdad under Harun al-Rashid and the time of the 1001 Nights. Why? Because it was so... The Arab civilisation was so sophisticated and complex. The singing, the poetry, the mathematics, the algebra. And it was so sexy, too.
Timothee Chalamet is one of the candidates, and there are others too. Barry Keegan. Very different type. Different types. But Timothee Chalamet and Barry Keegan are the two favorites to play Young Stalin. We're casting now.
Timothee Chalamet is one of the candidates, and there are others too. Barry Keegan. Very different type. Different types. But Timothee Chalamet and Barry Keegan are the two favorites to play Young Stalin. We're casting now.
Timothee Chalamet is one of the candidates, and there are others too. Barry Keegan. Very different type. Different types. But Timothee Chalamet and Barry Keegan are the two favorites to play Young Stalin. We're casting now.
I'm signed up to do the big three, to do Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, which is kind of going back to basics for me, after the trauma of Jerusalem and writing A History of the World, which my mother also told me not to bother with and just eat well and sleep well.
I'm signed up to do the big three, to do Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, which is kind of going back to basics for me, after the trauma of Jerusalem and writing A History of the World, which my mother also told me not to bother with and just eat well and sleep well.
I'm signed up to do the big three, to do Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, which is kind of going back to basics for me, after the trauma of Jerusalem and writing A History of the World, which my mother also told me not to bother with and just eat well and sleep well.
But I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to keep away from the Middle East, and I think I'm going to have to write about the modern Middle East, I think. Not quite sure yet.
But I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to keep away from the Middle East, and I think I'm going to have to write about the modern Middle East, I think. Not quite sure yet.
But I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to keep away from the Middle East, and I think I'm going to have to write about the modern Middle East, I think. Not quite sure yet.
I love the story of Isaac. I love the stories of Abraham. I love the patriarchs, basically, all of them. Do you have a favorite? The favorite bit of the Bible is David's lament for Jonathan. Publish it not in the streets of Gath, for how are the mighty fallen? And I absolutely, I think that's the most beautiful poetry in the Bible. Maybe the greatest poetry ever written.
I love the story of Isaac. I love the stories of Abraham. I love the patriarchs, basically, all of them. Do you have a favorite? The favorite bit of the Bible is David's lament for Jonathan. Publish it not in the streets of Gath, for how are the mighty fallen? And I absolutely, I think that's the most beautiful poetry in the Bible. Maybe the greatest poetry ever written.
I love the story of Isaac. I love the stories of Abraham. I love the patriarchs, basically, all of them. Do you have a favorite? The favorite bit of the Bible is David's lament for Jonathan. Publish it not in the streets of Gath, for how are the mighty fallen? And I absolutely, I think that's the most beautiful poetry in the Bible. Maybe the greatest poetry ever written.