correspondent and also the author of lawrence in arabia war, deceit, imperial folly. it s a fantastic read and a b t bestseller as well. . the e. lawrence, maybe the best-known figure of that time. americans know him from the epic film lawrence of arabia. how big a role did he play in the agreements creating the map of the modern middle east? he was hugely influential. he played a private equitital role during world war one in the middle east. he was the chief british liaison officer to the arab rebels who allied with the british. he got put off to the side at the paris peace conference afterwards, however. the 20th century, most middle east countries we re familiar with were part of the ottoman impeer.
intervention of libya and spent time complaining, while president dmitry medvedev s decision to go along with this. there s also some population interplay between sere wyria an russia and putin has the sochi olympics coming up fast in 2014 as we get into the new year, the winter olympics in the southern part of russia and there are populations of peoples from that region who are expelled from the russian empire into the ottoman impeer into what is now syria, 150 years ago and there s been lots of threats from terrorist groups and individuals in syria to bring back terrorist attacks to the old yes, yes. i love this. fiona, i want to go back to simon and have you ratify that. from the time of the efforts of the jewish people to get out of russia, we d hear about the nationalities issue. the fear was that the jewish people were allowed to leave to go to the holy land or go to israel or to the united states