The Atlantic·36 min read
The Atrocities That Shaped the Modern Middle East
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David Frum
The historian Simon Sebag Montefiore on his latest book, The Cauldron , and how violence forged the modern Middle East.
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On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show , The Atlantic ’s David Frum opens with a discussion of the seemingly forgotten attack on the Yazidi people by ISIS in 2014.
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