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Empire: World History @empirepoduk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In Episode 1 of this new series, @DalrympleWill is joined by Jason Burke, author of Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam and The Revolutionists, to trace the origins of radical Islamism and the road to 9/11. Watch now 👇 empirepoduk.com

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World History Podcast on Empires & Colonialism | Empire

Listen to the Empire podcast with William Dalrymple and Anita Anand. Explore colonial history, revolutions and global power through storytelling.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Don't miss this fabulous episode from Dan Snow's History Hit in which we talk about Osama bin Laden, the man behind the mythology, a month before it is exactly 25 years after the 9/11 attacks. Was a lot of fun & we covered a lot of important ground! podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

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The Making of Osama bin Laden

Épisode de balado · Dan Snow's History Hit · 17 août · 1 h 7 min

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

short notice but come and join me at the Frontline club tomorrow night to talk about the extremists who hijacked the 1970s, featuring carlos the Jackal, Leila Khaled, Mossad hits, exploding chianti, the iranian revolution, al-Qaeda and much else! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-...

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Book talk: The Revolutionists

The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The Shadow War part 17695. Iran and Israel are not likely to abandon their addiction to proxies soon, with consequences for everyone, i argue here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Shadow war: how use of proxy forces by Iran, Israel and US is driving Middle East instability

Across region there is a push to disarm militia and reinforce state authority but the temptation to use proxies remains

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five commas a pound, can't say fairer @commamonger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Just arrived and looking good... #beachreads

A copy of The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s by Jason Burke. A turquoise cover with two faces, one in green, one in red, and a picture of an airliner.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

aftermath of US-Iran-Israel war will be messy we have another ceasefire which freezes a conflicts but resolves little Israel is destabilising actor as it seeks a new post-Oct 2023 order Gulf states are stuck b/n unreliable US and newly empowered Iran read here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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US-Iran deal may get oil flowing again, but region’s root problems are unsolved

Few analysts believe final settlement can be reached in 60 days – and even if it is, war and instability could soon return

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

woo am talking at #thehayfestival about #TheRevolutionists on Saturday evening come and help me get bigger crowd than Michael McIntyre who is on main stage at same time. Frankly, he's no competition for Red Army Faction, Carlos the Jackal, Leila Khaled et al www.hayfestival.com/p-25454-jaso...

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Jason Burke talks to Oliver Bullough - Hay Festival

The international terrorism expert talks to the journalist about a seismic decade of hijackings and hostage-takings that transformed the modern world.

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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Reading the excellent 'The Revolutionists' by @jasonburke2.bsky.social and got to this bit about incidents in 1983...

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

👍 Recommend this 🔽. Traces the left-wing terrorism of the 1970s through to the Islamist terrorism of later decades detailing continuities and ruptures. Palestine is central to the story and the sections on the Iranian revolution in 1979 are hugely relevant to now... www.penguin.co.uk/books/440432...

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The Revolutionists

Immersive, globe-spanning and full of detail and drama, The Revolutionists is an unprecedented account of a seismic decade that transformed the modern world. In the 1970s, a network of radical extrem...

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

British investigators are circumspect but experts and security officials say Golders Green attack has hallmarks of Iranian intelligence my analysis etc here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Tangled trail probably leads from Golders Green ambulance attack to Tehran

British investigators are circumspect but experts and security officials say incident has hallmarks of Iranian intelligence

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

meanwhile in Gaza Israeli-backed Palestinian militias have stepped up operations against Hamas Evidence have increased their firepower as they carry out raids deep in Hamas-controlled territory my report: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Israeli-backed Palestinian militias step up operations against Hamas in Gaza

Armed groups appear to have increased their firepower as they carry out raids deep in Hamas-controlled territory

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"In his riveting The Revolutionists, Jason Burke treats the Iranian Revolution as a catalyst for “a new and different energy” that would surge through the Middle East. In its aftermath, ... older, leftist revolutionary currents were pushed to the margins." theconversation.com/the-iranian-...

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The Iranian revolution transformed global extremism, replacing left-wing radicalism with religion

Left-wing radicalism dominated the 1970s – until the 1979 Iranian Revolution became a catalyst for ‘a new and different energy’.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Iraq emerging as a new front in this spiralling conflict, with air strikes, militia, Kurds, Shia, proxies covert ops and more all in the mix our report here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

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Iran-backed militias intensify attacks against US, Israel and allies

Iraq emerges as key front in new and often clandestine confrontation after launching dozens of attacks

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

1/9. In 2020 Iran did try to interfere with the presidential election.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In jerusalem right now somewhat incongruous combination of bells from old city (sunday morning) and loud explosions as missiles from Iran aimed at central israel intercepted overhead. there's no doubt a latin tag that could be usefully deployed. Bluesky users may know. Twitter not so much.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

noisy night here in Jerusalem with a lot of alerts and so in and out of the shelter. all clear half an hour ago, and a stunning clear blue sky. unsurprisingly empty streets. here's my file from last night on rise and demise of Ali Khamenei. The end of an era. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

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The rise and fall of Iran’s ruthless and pragmatic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The radical cleric took over as supreme leader in 1989 and is likely to be replaced by hardline figures

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

came through quiet Ben Gurion airport at 4am this morning on one of last flights in for who knows how long. woken by alerts pinging on phone when first wave of missiles came in, since pretty much nonstop sirens, jets overhead, and explosions rattling windows here in Jerusalem.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

very very long, careful and clever review of The Revolutionists in the New Yorker .. which is pretty amazing "A new history charts how Palestinian militants of the nineteen-seventies made common cause with West Germany’s radical left." t.co/mk6on0oGOz

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/the-revolutionists-jason-burke-book-review

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Stephen Moore @stevem10.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Finally got round to starting my birthday present, @jasonburke2.bsky.social ‘s Revolutionists. 100 pages in in two days and it’s excellent.

The aforementioned book positioned with a pint of bitter.

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15-Minute Book Club @15minutebook.club · 23/01/2026

Our Patreon supporters now have access to our latest episode with @jasonburke2.bsky.social about his remarkable book, The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s, and they get their extra 15 minutes with Jason! Join us here: www.patreon.com/posts/revolu... #booksky

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Here's a fantastic Spotify playlist with some of the best music that features in The Revolutionists. (yes the book is about terrorism, but it's also about the 70s, so there's a lot of tunes in it) open.spotify.com/playlist/0NW...

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THE REVOLUTIONISTS

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

"The twenty-four-year-old gripping the Beretta 9mm pistol in his gloved hand had enjoyed many names in his short life ...." read the rest (of this extract from #TheRevolutionists) on the early years of Carlos the Jckal here: lithub.com/the-rise-of-...

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The Rise of Carlos the Jackal, the Most Feared Terrorist of the 1970s

The twenty-four-year-old gripping the Beretta 9mm pistol in his gloved hand had enjoyed many names in his short life. To teasing classmates, he had been el Gordo or “the chubby one.” To…

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 14/01/2026

The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

am wildly pleased by big review of #TheRevolutionists in New York Times which says "timely, engaging" and other nice things the book is published this week in US, the final moment of a sometimes hard but generally extraordinary 10 year journey www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...

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The Middle East Is on Fire. Who Lit the Match?

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Am v pleased that @AppleBooksOfficial chose THE REVOLUTIONISTS as a #BestBooks of January. "This gripping work of narrative history takes readers inside a decade when the rules of political violence were rewritten in real time" ... and you can find it here: t.co/Y7MUwkWlEC

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https://books.apple.com/gb/audiobook/the-revolutionists/id1739747833

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

ooh The Revolutionists is a Book of the Year in the Guardian, which is very nice to see. "in it less for the Marxism than the mayhem" is a) a great phrase and b) true

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

this is great too, The Revolutionists a book of the year in list in BBC History Extra, one of my all time favourite magazines, thanks to Onyeka Nubia there is not a book on the list I am not desperate to find time to read .. www.historyextra.com/magazine/his...

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Best history books 2025: BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year

In the roster of laudable history books published in 2025, authors tackled topics as diverse as Gaza, Indian partition, extinction, medieval and Stuart monarchs – even historians themselves. Here, a p...

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year... in some v fine company too

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

oooh and The Revolutionists on the Economist books of the year list too. very exciting. lots of amazing other things to read on this too, if anyone needs ideas for xmas presents

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

v pleased to see The Revolutionists has made it onto Financial Times' list of history books of the year... in some v fine company too

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James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is so good: a friend and I are trading anecdotes from it about velvet trousers, topless sunbathing and compulsory simultaneous orgasms

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I'll just leave this here ... (tho the simultaneous orgasms involve Italian radical leftists, if u were wondering) thank you james

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

thank you James. from you especially very much appreciated.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

v pleased to report that The Spectator likes #TheRevolutionists too. Is "superb and monumental" apparently. which is very nice to read. And makes good point on how few people it took to cause carnage half way round the world ... www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...

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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🚨NEW🚨 Figures like Leila Khaled and Carlos the Jackal turned political violence into global theatre. @jasonburke2.bsky.social joins @seththevoz.bsky.social to discuss how these figures reshaped global politics, and what their legacy reveals about ideology, glamour and violence 👉 linktr.ee/bunker_pod

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

An excellent idea .... am currently preparing a playlist for the US edition launch. Thank you Andrew.

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

v happy this a.m. to see👇 a comprehensive and kind review of #TheRevolutionists in the Guardian. "combines a flair for period detail – sideburns and aviator shades, berets and Beretta pistols – with impressive digests of Arab and Iranian history". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war

A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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The Revolutionists by Jason Burke review – from hijackings to holy war

A colourful study of the evolution of extremism in the tumultuous 1970s

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals and to hang onto power. this will have consequences for any "peace" deal. My take here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Hamas’s aim to retain authority in Gaza involves keeping the guns

With no law, order or any alternative administration under the ceasefire, the group is using violence to deter rivals

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

like it or not, Netanyahu dominates Israeli politics, now as before. If anyone thinks the ceasefire is the endgame for a man who has been in power in Israel longer than David Ben Gurion, founding father, then think again ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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‘Yes Bibi, or no Bibi’: what does Gaza deal mean for Benjamin Netanyahu’s future?

Widespread support among Israelis for the ceasefire is unlikely to translate into votes for Likud, survey shows

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Jason Burke @jasonburke2.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

yes, there is much that can go wrong, yes the destruction,scars and trauma will be with us for decades, but to now write about a possible, imminent, even definitive end to this bloody, relentless, appalling war is ... well... a moment www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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‘First phase’ of ceasefire deal to end war in Gaza agreed by Israel and Hamas

Donald Trump announces all hostages will be released ‘very soon’ and Israel will withdraw troops to an agreed timeline

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