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The Battle For Jerusalem
['Ramtin Arablouei Rund Abdelfatah Lawrence Wu Devin Katayama Julie Caine Casey Miner Tamar Charney Anya Steinberg Linah Mohammad Irene Noguchi Sarah Wyman Yin Cai Kiana Paclibon Rachel Horowitz', 'Ramtin Arablouei', 'Rund Abdelfatah', 'Lawrence Wu', 'Devin Katayama', 'Julie Caine', 'Casey Miner', 'Tamar Charney', 'Anya Steinberg', 'Linah Mohammad']
Throughline
What happened next was one of the most consequential battles of the Middle Ages: A battle that would forever change the course of relations between the Islamic and Christian worlds, Europe and The Middle East. In this episode, we travel back to the front lines of that battle to explore a simple question: What is Jerusalem worth? Paul Cobb, Professor of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades