Listen to a Podcast About Middle Eastern History

Trace the history of a region at the crossroads of civilization — the birth of agriculture, Abrahamic religions, the Islamic Golden Age, the Ottoman legacy, and modern geopolitics.

The Islamic Golden Age (roughly 8th-14th centuries) produced extraordinary advances in mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and philosophy, with scholars like al-Khwarizmi (whose name gave us the word "algorithm") writing the foundational algebra textbook around 820 AD. The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, in which Britain and France secretly carved up the Ottoman Empire's Middle Eastern territories into spheres of influence, drew borders that largely persist today and are widely cited as a root cause of ongoing regional instability. The Fertile Crescent, stretching from modern Iraq through Syria to Egypt, is where agriculture first developed around 10,000 BC with the domestication of wheat, barley, sheep, and goats — a revolution that enabled the first permanent settlements and the birth of civilization itself.

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