First history podcast about the Middle Eastern region, its politics, wars and society of the 20th and 21 century.
Orient Express: Middle East History Podcast
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18 episodes
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Podcast Overview
First history podcast about the Middle Eastern region, its politics, wars and society of the 20th and 21 century.
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Publishing Since
6/26/2022
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Recent Episodes
November 21, 2022
First World War: A Kurdish revolt on the Turkish-Persian Frontier (part 2)
<p>This episode continues with the story of Isma´il Aqa – a Kurdish chieftan known as Simko who set himself up as an independent local ruler in the borderlands of Persia, cooperating with a number of leading Kurdish nationalists and challenging the central government. Even after his ‘rebellion’ was crushed by the modernized Persian army in August 1922 and he had fled from Persian soil, he remained an influential actor in central Kurdistan, and both Turkey and Britain attempted to use him in their interests in the conflict over the status of the Mosul province during the interwar period.</p>
November 13, 2022
First World War: A Kurdish revolt on the Turkish-Persian Frontier (part 1)
<p>This episode aims to discuss a Kurdish rebellion of Isma´il Aqa – a Kurdish chieftan known as Simko who became a prominent figure during the First World War and the subsequent interwar period in the Middle East theatre. The first part is aiming to provide the listeners with the overall description of the Kurdish clan society and its customs and habits that stood behind the subsequent successful career of the Kurdish chieftain Simko. This episode will dive deeper into the structure of the Kurdish society, its decision-making processes, political role within Persia and the Ottoman empire and also the starting years of Simko´s rebellion.</p>
October 9, 2022
First World War: Indian Expeditionary Force in the Middle East
<p>This episode discuss the Indian contribution to the British war effort in the Middle East during the First World War. In this matter, the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force went through a dynamic process of Indianization through which Great Britain supplement domestic British soldiers in the Middle East with Indian expeditionary forces due to the need to continually refill its military personnel on the Western Front. As such, the Indian expeditionary force was designed to operate as the strategic imperial reserve of the British army and thanks to this role, Great Britain was able to attain its presence in various theatres of war during the First World War. Within this topic, we shall look upon the historical development of the Indian army under the British rule and its engagement and specific role in the Middle Eastern battlefields of Egypt and Palestine.</p>
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