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Henry LaurensCollège de FranceHistoire contemporaine du monde arabeAnnée 2023-2024Colloque - L'année 1979 au Moyen-Orient : Le traité de paix israélo-égyptien et la question de PalestineDima AlsajdeyaChercheuse et doctorante associée à la chaire Histoire contemporaine du monde ar ... Show More

Henry LaurensChaire Chaire Histoire contemporaine du monde arabeCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Crise d'Orient, l'année 1970, la question de Palestine à partir de 2001 : Crise d'Orient, l'année 1970, la question de Palestine à partir de 2001 (6) 

Henry LaurensChaire Histoire contemporaine du monde arabeCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-202605 - Crise d'Orient, l'année 1970, la question de Palestine à partir de 2001 : Crise d'Orient, l'année 1970, la question de Palestine à partir de 2001 (5) 

<p>In this special episode, Don Wildman is joined by experts Jonathan Alter and Jefferson Cowie to delve into the remarkable life of the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, who has died at the age of 100.</p><br><p>Carter, who served in office from 1977 to 1981, is ... Show More

In October 1973, Arab nations protested the American support of Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria by slashing oil production, causing prices to sky rocket.Dr Fadhil Chalabi was deputy secretary general of Opec (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries). In 2014 h ... Show More

The Syrian Civil War didn’t begin in 2011; it began centuries earlier. Dr. Roy explores how the legacy of empire, the carving up of the Middle East after World War I, and repeated Western interference destabilized Syria and Iraq long before the Arab Spring. Along the way, Dr. Roy ... Show More

What did the Queen think about Britain’s humiliating failures in Suez in 1956? Why did France and Britain not inform their American allies of the invasion? What was simultaneously going on in Hungary that sent the UN into crisis mode? William and Anita are joined once again by Al ... Show More

This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war with black nationalists. Ian Findlay, a District Commissioner at the time, explains why Rhodesia tried to hold back the 'winds of change' sweeping across Africa.(Photo: Armed Rhodesian police on the streets ... Show More

In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts. Dramatic events since the end of the world war seemed poised to transform the world, but the form of that transformation was uncle ... Show More

Prof Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to the First World War. In the first programme, he travels to Sarajevo to tell the story of extraordinary chances that led to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. 

How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, auth ... Show More