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The Middle East didn’t become a cauldron overnight, and to understand what’s happening there today, you have to understand the history that brought us here. Simon Sebag Montefiore joins me to unpack the revolutions, empires, wars, and extraordinary personalities that shaped the region, and why decisions made decades ago still reverberate around the world today.
Simon Sebag Montefiore is a historian whose bestselling books have been published in forty-eight languages and have won numerous awards, including the Costa Biography Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His books include Catherine the Great and Potemkin; Stalin; Young Stalin; Jerusalem; The Romanovs; The World; the acclaimed Moscow Trilogy of novels; Written in History; and Voices of History. He received his Ph.D. from Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
I love all of Simon's books, but this might just be my favorite: "The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East". Get your copy here: https://amzn.to/4ydIFaZ
Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.
Pre-order my next book, All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump, out on the 17th of September in the UK and the 22nd of September in the US: https://www.scaramucci.net/allthewrongmoves
Timestamps
0:00 Simon Sebag Montefiore Introduction
1:41 Demystifying the Middle East and trying to understand it all
4:35 The founding of Saudi Arabia
9:00 Why you need to understand the Sykes-Picot treaty
12:32 Could the Middle East have been divided differently?
16:10 Could Israel and Palestine have taken a different path?
19:22 America’s role in the modern Middle East
21:10 The Iranian Revolution & the rise of radical Islamism
24:14 What Iran learned from the Tanker War
30:22 Five Words
