Season 4, Episode 5: Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

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Feb 4, 202552:39Society & Culture

Send us Fan Mail Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and historian Eugene Rogan , professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at Oxford, as they delve into the complex history of the Arab world, from the Ottoman conquest in 1516...

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