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Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the author of The World: a Family History of Humanityand Jerusalem: a History of the Holy Land. His next book The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East will be published September 1.
Simon Sebag Montefiore: The Dictator’s Death and the Dawn of a New Mideast
The risks of this war are colossal. Its perils are eye-watering. And its consequences profound—not just for Iran, but the world.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Will the Regime in Iran Fall? History Offers Some Clues.
Significant revolutions in world history all have had telltale signs, and we can see them in Iran, writes Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Intifada Comes to Britain
The Yom Kippur attack in Manchester wasn’t a manifestation of a distant war—it was an attack on British Jews on British soil, fueled by years of…
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Deep Roots of Irish Antisemitism
Ireland’s hostility to Israel, and the Jewish people, is nothing new, as Simon Sebag Montefiore’s family well knows.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore: After Assad
His bloody reign of Syria has come to an end. What sort of country will the warlord Abu Mohammad al-Jolani usher in?
Simon Sebag Montefiore
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