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Chapter 22: Islam and the New Middle East — World History 101

How a small persecuted religious movement in seventh-century Arabia became, within 120 years of its founder’s death, an empire stretching from Spain to Afghanistan and reshaped half the world’s faith map.
Chapter 51: Zionism and Israeli Independence — World History 101

From Herzl’s nineteenth-century pamphlet to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 — and the Palestinian displacement that has shaped Middle East politics ever since.
Chapter 59: The Paradox of Iranian Democracy — World History 101

Mossadegh, the 1953 CIA coup, the 1979 revolution, and the layered theocracy that grew from a stolen democracy.