{"product_id":"the-cauldron-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east","title":"The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe essential guide to the making of today's Middle East: a spellbinding history from Simon Sebag Montefiore\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow did one extraordinary prince create Saudi Arabia?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy were a million Armenians killed during WWI?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow did an elderly cleric overthrow the Shah and become ruler of Iran?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy did the Arab Spring fail?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCould Trump's peace deal lead to a new Middle East?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Middle East has forever been the source of religions, prize of empires, spark-wheel of conflicts, well of radicalism and epicentre of our tumultuous world. No other region has such a hold on our imagination nor such a propensity to unleash mayhem. Yet few know its real history; fewer still understand its variety and cosmopolitanism, its complexity and interconnectedness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Cauldron\u003c\/i\u003e, Simon Sebag Montefiore delivers a fresh and unique history of the entire region in all its diversity, from 1900 up to the present day. Taking the reader on a spectacular journey from the Ottoman sultanate to the Trump presidency, from Morocco to Iran, this is a dazzling panorama of faith and fanaticism, creativity and tolerance, dictatorship and democracy brought to life by an extraordinary cast of kings, warriors, poets, terrorists and peacemakers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the essential story of how the Middle East of 1900 became the Middle East of today – and tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48783607038109,"sku":"9781399634908","price":99.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/the-cauldron-the-making-of-the-modern-middle-east","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}