Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If greenlit, the series, which is being developed as a documentary series, will be produced by Karga Seven Pictures, examining ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's book "The World" investigates the history of humanity through families - the Caesars and Borgias, the Kims and Tudors, Roosevelts and the House of Saud. The book spans a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historian Simon Sebag Montefiore in conversation with journalist Matti Friedman at the National Library of Israel, in Jerusalem on ...

The author of bestseller ‘Jerusalem’ on why the West needs to be more shrewd in dealing with Hamas and his vision for Israel’s future Paul Nuki Global Health Security Editor Paul Nuki is the Global ...

Yet, in firing the imagination, as Montefiore puts it, the city "has become the essential place on earth for the communication of God and man." William Shakespeare wrote of leaving "this troublous ...

When I set off to Spain to make a TV documentary about that country’s dramatic history from ancient times to today, the last thing I expected was to discover the horrifying truth about the origins of ...

With the likely killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin reasserted his power, but Russian history offers lessons on state violence and control Vladimir Putin knows all too well the history of how tsars ...

The prize-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore draws on a true story for his second novel, set in Moscow just after the second world war and peopled with both real and fictional characters. A mix ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Romanovs: 1613-1918 poses some initial challenges for the general reader, for whom it's written. At 784 pages (including appendices, maps and illustrations), and covering ...

Some time in the late eighth century BC, a prophet named Isaiah foretold great things for his native city. “It shall be exalted above the hills,” he declared, “and all nations shall flow unto it.” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The World: A Family History is being developed as a TV project by The History Channel. If greenlit, the series, which is being developed as a ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore and acclaimed journalist Matti Friedman delved into how Jerusalem – both city and symbol – functions as a stage for sweeping historical narratives. Simon Sebag Montefiore, the ...