Hashemites!

As we race toward the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars, we’re
putting our final duck in its row. After the fall of the Ottoman
Empire, Jordan and Iraq both received Hashemite monarchs—and the
rivalries and ideological conflicts that followed still reverberate
today, perhaps nowhere more powerfully than on the Temple Mount in
Jerusalem. Focusing mainly on the tragic history of modern Iraq,
this episode engages with the clash between modern Arab
republicanism and something like traditional monarchism (Aimen’s
favourite!), as competing versions of Pan-Arabism violently spread
throughout the region, prompting the Hashemites into ever more
desperate acts of self-preservation. Listen to exclusive bonus
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