• The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East (with James Barr)

  • Feb 24 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
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The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East (with James Barr)

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  • Until the end of WWI, the Middle East as we know it didn't exist. No Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, or Iraq. Instead, there was the Ottoman Empire, whose dissolution using an arbitrary line on a map set the region on a course of upheaval that's still with us. Listen as historian James Barr speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, and how, in the century that followed, the machinations of the French, the British, and the local residents created the modern Middle East and affected the lives of millions.
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