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Dec 2023
1h 57m

Age of Coexistence w/ Ussama Makdisi

Daniel Denvir
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Featuring Ussama Makdisi on the late Ottoman Empire's Arab culture of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence—an ecumenical frame that was interrupted by European colonialism and Zionism, which exacerbated and exploited sectarianism. This is the first of a two-part interview.

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