Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he needs to wage total war - and his sights are set on Rome. With Christendom divided, Suleyman the Magnificent...

'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'The most daring history book of the year. Unforgettable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'A formidable book ... incredible' Rory Stewart___Venice, 1522....

»Erhellend, großartig geschrieben, ein Buch, das uns hilft, das Verhältnis zwischen islamischer Welt und Moderne zu verstehen.« Yuval Noah Harari, Autor von »Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit« Die islamische Aufklärung hat längst...

On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. Above all, the life of Muhammad Mossadegh is a warning to today's occupants of Downing Street and the...

On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against Muhammad Mossadegh, a bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize his...

„The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason“ von Christopher de Bellaigue bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der sozialen, politischen und intellektuellen Transformationen in der islamischen Welt vom späten...

"The Struggle for Iran" von Christopher de Bellaigue bietet eine umfassende Analyse der politischen und sozialen Entwicklungen im Iran, insbesondere seit der Islamischen Revolution 1979. De Bellaigue, ein erfahrener Journalist und Kenner...

An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the...