Ian Black draws on four decades of experience as a Middle East correspondent steeped in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to present a gripping narrative of 100 years of the history of the region, originating in Lord Balfour’s oblique 67-word promise of a homeland for the Jewish people, through to the challenges of today.

Ian Black was Middle East editor of the Guardian until 2016. In a career spanning over 35 years, he has served as the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent, diplomatic editor, European editor and foreign leader writer. He has covered major events in the Middle East, from the Iran-Iraq War to the Palestinian Intifadas and the Arab Spring. He is currently a visiting senior fellow at LSE. He is the author of Enemies and Neighbours, Zionism and the Arabs, 1936-1939 and Israel’s Secret Wars (with Benny Morris), and appears regularly on BBC TV and radio, Sky News and Al Jazeera.

Jonathan Freedland is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster, and a weekly columnist and writer for the Guardian. He is also the presenter of BBC Radio 4′s The Long View. He writes a monthly piece for the JC and is a regular contributor to a range of US publications, including the NYT, New York Review of Books and New Republic. He is the author of nine books, two of them non-fiction, and since 2006 has published seven best-selling novels under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. His latest is To Kill the President.