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Mon, 24 Aug

What historians get wrong about the Middle East

Author of the new book The Cauldron Simon Sebag Montefiore, joins UnHerd for a masterclass on the vexed region, from 1900 up to the present day. Join the best-selling historian on a spectacular journey from the Ottoman sultanate to the Trump presidency, asking: why is the Middle East so misunderstood?

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Members of the UnHerd Club have access to all the talks, interviews, discussions and events we’ve ever had — in the archive.

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Former Labour leader: Neil Kinnock

Peter Hitchens, Aris Roussinos, Philip Cunliffe and Stella Tsantekidou

The Anglo-Gaullism Debate

UnHerd Academy: Tom Hodgkinson on Stoicism

Strange Bedfellows: Julie Bindel and Buck Angel

The Beatles: How did they do it?

UnHerd Academy: J. G. Ballard masterclass

Rowan Williams: What are Christian Politics?

Kathleen Stock, Sonia Sodha, Rabbi Jonathan Romain & Paul Sagar

DEBATE: This house believes assisted dying is wrong

Wolfgang Münchau & Yanis Varoufakis

Econoclasts Live: Who will dominate the New World Disorder?

Giles Fraser, Sohrab Ahmari, Graham Tomlin & Elizabeth Oldfield

DEBATE: This house believes the Reformation was a mistake

Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson

UnHerd Academy: Martin Shaw on mythology

Jo Bartosch, Robert Jessell, Royal Pelling and Peter Tatchell

DEBATE: This house believes all porn is a threat to humanity

Eric Kaufmann, Sam Rubinstein, Toby Young & Charles Cornish-Dale

DEBATE: This house believes the Right should dump Trump

Andrew Graham Dixon

UnHerd Academy: Andrew Graham Dixon on Johannes Vermeer

UnHerd Academy: Geoff Dyer on John Berger

Alex O'Connor, Tanya Gold, Cleo Watson and Sebastian Milbank

DEBATE: This house would end the monarchy with Charles

Cormac McCarthy reading & response from Aris Roussinos

James Marriott, Ed West and Kathleen Stock

The slop-ification of literature

The battle for the Right

Helen Thompson, Mary Harrington & Aaron Bastani

Time for Britain to divorce America?

Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair MacIntyre philosophy masterclass

Graham Tomlin & James Orr

Pascal vs Descartes: Where did the Enlightenment go wrong?

Live from New York

This house fears Mayor Mamdani

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, Dave Rich, Nicole Lampert and Jake Wallis-Simons

What now for British Jews?

Come for writers and thinkers, interviews and debates, talks and seminars —intelligent discussion in all different ways.

Start with a cocktail, stay for a delicious dinner.