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217 scholars (and counting) distill decades of research into an hour conversation, to unravel the misperceptions that divide East and West and clarify our common misconceptions about the Middle East - from its ancient past to its present developments. I am Adel Aali, your host. This program is a production of History Behind News podcast (now in its 5th season). Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/@ScholarsUnravelMiddleEast?sub_confirmation=1
Unknown Host hosts Scholars Unravel Middle East, a history show with 59 episodes published.
Who were the Iranians of the 1979 Revolution? Was it an Islamic revolution? 🚩About My Guest: Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi is a professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East St
Is Jordan a stable country? Where do Jordanians practice politics? In protests? Or in the polls and parliament? In this interview, I discuss the following with my guest: ▶️Were the Hashemite royal family foreigners in Jo
A secretive religion? A cohesive & strong community spread across several Middle East nations. This is the history of the Druze. 🚩In this interview: ►Who are the Druze? ►Do they practice a secretive religion? ►Can you c
A secretive religion? A cohesive & strong community spread across several Middle East nations. This is the history of the Druze. 🚩In this interview: ►Who are the Druze? ►Do they practice a secretive religion? ►Can you c
From major league baseball to major league Middle East. 🚩In this interview: ►An all-American guy ►Tommy Lasorda & baseball's nerve-racking lesson for a scholar of Middle East ►It's important to cry! ►Does empathy compro
Does Iran need reform or another revolution? History of Iran's two & half 20th century revolutions answers that question. 🚩In this interview: ►Iran's Constitutional Revolution, 1905-11 ►Clergy vs. intellectuals ►Iran's
Alone in the Middle East! Imperial Iran… Safavids, Qajars, and even the Pahlavis - alone in the Middle East. And then, the Ayatollahs. Again, Iran alone in the Middle East. 🚩In this interview: ►What is it about Iran and
Did you know that up to the Partition of India in 1947, Kashmiri Muslims lived in conditions that very much resembled serfdom? Exploitation of Kashmiri Muslims was particularly notable during the Dogra Dynasty, which rul
Did you know that Allah had daughters? Did you know that before Muhammad, tribes of Arabia already believed in Allah? And if so, then, what did Muhammad offer them? In this interview, I discuss the following about pre-Is
This is the story of (1) the king who invented Nowruz for the Guarded Domains of Iran, (2) the calendar system that survived the demise of religions and destructions of empires, (3) the solar calendar with the most accur
Turkic peoples have dominated Middle East history since the fall of the Sasanian Persian Empire. But where did they come from? Do they all essentially speak the same Turkic language? How is it that Turkic languages remai
Mani wrote his own gospel. He performed miracles. And he claimed to be the true prophet - the final prophet! He told the Sasanian Emperor that his religion is better than all the other religions. Mani eventually, and per
►Christian refugees to Sasanian Empire, or double agents for Byzantine Empire? ►Clash of the Sasanian and Armenian empires ►Were Nestorians treated better than Armenians in Sasanian Empire? ►Nestorian hospitals, schools
►Georgia is a country between two civilizations - Europe & Asia, and Islam and Christianity ►Until the Russians came, Georgia had maintained its status as an independent state. ►Georgia has punched above its weight under
►Did you know that the Arabic language has more than 60 words for 'love'? ►And did you know before Islam, Arabs had love poetry competition, and the best poems were written in gold and hung from the Kaaba? ►But what abou
The long history of coexistence of between Muslims and Jews, which defies our common understanding of the Middle East, is the subject of this episode. My guest describes the long, intertwined history of Muslims and Jews,
The story of the Flood told before the Bible! Gilgamesh caused an uproar in Europe. Translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh in 1872 riled up Christian Europe - embroiling Prime Minister Gladstone and Kaiser Wilhelm II. Gilg
How Ariel Sharon defied and deceived Israel's government to expand war in Lebanon - a former IDF Major shares his Lebanon War stories ►How did Israel get entangled in Lebanon? ►What was Israel's original plan for the 198
Israel’s “Enlightened” occupation was the brainchild of Moshe Dayan. But Likud's 'revolutionary' 1977 election victory changed that. In this interview, we discuss the following: ►Why was Israel's 1967 victory "cursed'? ►
►Are U.S. sanctions on Iran working? ►Are U.S. sanctions against Iran actually working against the United States? ►Have sanctions empowered and emboldened Iran's Revolutionary Guard… to the point that they were ready for
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