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Podcast Website large Sayegh Wissam

BBC Arabic at 80 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Illustation by Femke de Jong.

Michael Wood on Anglo-Saxon Christianity . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian Simon Schama.

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General Edmund Allenby walks into Jerusalem on 11 December 1917

The Balfour Declaration: Britain’s unholy mess

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Q&A Where is Nefertiti’s mummy?

The USS Liberty arriving for repairs following the attack by Israeli warplanes and motor torpedo boats

Why did Israel attack the USS Liberty?

The crews of Israeli armoured vehicles during the waiting period before the beginning of the Six-Day War. (Photo by David Rubinger/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Six days that shook the Middle East

Seven princesses with the name ‘Cleopatra’ are credited as sitting on the throne of Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A How many Cleopatras ruled Ancient Egypt?

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Christopher de Bellaigue in conversation

The Islamic Enlightenment: Christopher de Bellaigue and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in conversation . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the capture of Jerusalem during the third crusade

Crusader, deserter and traitor: the life and legacy of Raymond III of Tripoli

Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

Bethlehem. (Getty Images)

My favourite place: Bethlehem, West Bank

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The end game: Britain’s role in Afghanistan 1947–50

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (centre) at a UN Security Council meeting concerning the Suez crisis. (Photo by Lisa Larsen/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Blood and sand: Suez, Hungary and the crisis that shook the world

The Mar Elian Catholic monastery burnt by Islamic State militants in 2016. (Photo by Valery SharifulinTASS via Getty Images)

History under attack: the destruction of antiquities in the Middle East