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An Al-Qaeda double agent explains what’s really going on in Middle East

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

When will the definitive history of the modern Middle East be written? For 20 years and more, a continent has been torn apart by invasion, upheaval and civil war. It took hundreds of years for balanced histories to be written of the Reformation, European history’s most obviously comparable period. If you want the whole story of the modern Muslim world, written from a dispassionate, God’s-eye view, you may be waiting a long time.

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