Jeremy Bowen: Making the Middle East

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Jeremy Bowen, International Editor BBC News, has been covering the Middle East since 1989. His deep understanding of the political, cultural, and religious differences between countries as diverse as Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Palestine shine from The Making of the Modern Middle East. Join Bowen as he shares his learning, and his extraordinary personal history of the region with Hind Hassan.

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