The Arab World Under Empires | Charles Al-Hayek | Boukra #1

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In the first episode of Boukra, historian Charles Al-Hayek shows Mouin Jaber how Rome, Byzantium, the caliphates and the Ottomans still shape the Middle East today, from our politics and our food to the titles we still use today. Did Rome ever really fall? What do we actually know about the early Islamic conquests? And why do we keep looking to the past to tell us who we are? Why did Jupiter lose his beard in Baalbek? Did cities really open their gates to the early Muslim armies? Why did an…