{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Professor Eugene Rogan: The Arabs - How the Modern Middle East Was Shaped- 269 - Alain Elkann Interviews","description":"HISTORIAN OF THE ARABS. Professor&amp;nbsp;Eugene Rogan&amp;nbsp;is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony\u2019s College, University of Oxford. He&amp;nbsp;has a&amp;nbsp;B.A. in economics from Columbia, and an M.A. and PhD&amp;nbsp;in Middle Eastern history from Harvard.&amp;nbsp; Among many other titles, he is author of&amp;nbsp;The Arabs: A History&amp;nbsp;which has been translated into&amp;nbsp;18&amp;nbsp;languages and was named one of the best books of 2009 by&amp;nbsp;The Economist,&amp;nbsp;The Financial Times, and&amp;nbsp;The Atlantic Monthly. \u201cThe Arab peoples were never reconciled to being colonised by the British and French.\u201d \u201cThe idea of united Arabs has been enormously appealing to Arab peoples right through the 20th century.\u201d \u201cAlmost all the governments right through the Middle East are nation states governed by constitutions. The opposition is Islamist, but not the form of government.\u201d ","author_name":"Alain Elkann Interviews","author_url":"https:\/\/www.alainelkanninterviews.com\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/39766860\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ea6c35\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/197583230"}