The Importance of the Middle East in the 20th Century

The idea that through the course of the 20th century, there is a really concerted effort to replace old urban elites with Muslim ones. The Ottomans are strangely forgotten and one of the big revelations from your books was how Balkan the CUP and the young elite was. I think there's a certain amount of romanticism that we have about the diversity of the past and what we tend to see now is the cosmopolitanism of the past because a lot of it is lost.