►When did the "West" begin to perceive the Middle East as a troubled region?
►Have Sunni and Shi'a Muslims always been at war? How about Jews and Muslims?
►Why did France invade Egypt? Hint: it was not entirely about geopolitics.
►Have Europeans fought more wars than Middle Easterners?
►Can you think of any wars in the Middle East that match the scale of WWI or WWII?
►Was the de-Christianization of France somehow rooted in Islam?
Dr. Ian Coller is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine - UCI.
His research interests include modern France, French Revolution & Empire, Modern Europe (c.1700-1900), and Muslim Mediterranean.
Dr. Coller's books and other publications include:
Muslims and Citizens: Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution,
Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831,
“Rousseau’s Turban: Entangled Encounters of Europe and Islam in the Age of Enlightenment ”,
“The Revolutionary Mediterranean”,
“Egypt in the French Revolution”, and
“Empires from the Viewpoint of the Colonised”.📽️Subscribe to our YouTube channel
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Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.
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