Arab Spring: A History

This week in Arab Spring: A History we cover the rise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. We look at his early life, and follow hi... Read more

This week in Arab Spring: A History we finish looking at Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. We look at how Turkey was created throug... Read more

This week we turn to Egypt and Syria for the rise of Sadat and Assad, before turning to the Yom Kippur War and the elect... Read more

This week in Arab Spring: A History we turn to Persia. As bad as things were for the Ottomans, things were worse for the... Read more

This week we follow the narrative of Iraq through the 1963 revolutions, the regime of Arif, and the Baathist Revolution ... Read more

This week in Arab Spring: A History we look at revolution. Inspired by Ataturk, Reza Khan rebuilds the Persian State int... Read more

The podcast is back! This week we continue to tell the story of Iraq following the July Revolution of 1958. We look at t... Read more

This week we turn to the Persian Gulf and talk oil. We take Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates up to 19... Read more

This week we continue telling the story of Egypt, covering 1956 and the Suez Crisis. Then we also double back yet again ... Read more

This week we end the story of Nasser. We cover the last decade of his life, looking at the Yemeni Civil War, the Six-Day... Read more

This week in Arab Spring: A History we turn to Zionism. We firstly look at the Mandate in Iraq, seeing how unlikely it w... Read more

This week we focus on the Camp David Accords, the first real attempt to form a peace between Israel and Palestine.

This week we return to Iran to look at the build up to the Islamic revolution. We begin by looking at post-occupation Ir... Read more

This week we explore the effects of World War 2 ending. We see the Egyptian reaction to Attlee and the creation of Israe... Read more

This week in Arab Spring: A History we turn to the Mandates. We look at just what they were and how they were set up. We... Read more