1979 - The Year Of The Islamist Revolution
During the 1970s the Middle East was a battleground for the Cold War; liberal pro-Western forces battled with pro-Soviet Arab Nationalists and Baathists. But in 1979 a series of events – the Iranian Revolution, Egypt’s peace with Israel, the Mecca Mosque Siege, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan – contributed to a radical change in the mind-set of the region and its leaders. It was the start of the meteoric rise of radical Islam.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Nabil Na'eem
Self · 2 eps
Mark Gregory Hambley
Self · 2 eps
Abdullah Anas
Self · 2 eps
Ali Al-Ahmed
Self · 2 eps
Nigel Anthony
Self - Narrator (voice) · 2 eps
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Self · 1 ep
Djavad Khadem
Self · 1 ep
Henry Kissinger
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Jimmy Carter
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Nooshabe Amiri
Self · 1 ep
Yasser Arafat
Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Kamal El-Helbawy
Self · 1 ep
Ali El Din Hilal
Self · 1 ep
Houshang Asadi
Self · 1 ep
Farrokh Negahdar
Self · 1 ep
Ebrahim Yazdi
Self · 1 ep
Mahmood Delkhasteh
Self · 1 ep
Mohsen Sazegara
Self · 1 ep
Masoud Behnoud
Self · 1 ep
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