Summary: Jerusalem is the Holy City, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths, the prize of countless conquerors, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today’s clash of civilisations. In this talk historian Simon Sebag Montefiore will take us on a 3000-year journey through Jerusalem’s many incarnations, through the wars, adventures, love-affairs and messianic revelations of the men and women who created, destroyed and left their mark on the city – from Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad to Cleopatra, Herod and Caligula, from Saladin to the Kaiser and Churchill, from Disraeli and Lloyd George to Moshe Dayan, King Hussein and Yasser Arafat
