malick to leakey the train is even writer and broadcaster takes us on a personal journey. his grandfather's generation falls in the war now molly goes in search of what happened to these men. who they were. and why their stories often died with them. in this episode he tells the story of how thousands of arabs were conscripted by the british and french in north africa. their treatment and mistreatment. a muslim was forced to fight against muslims. and of the fight a wall arabs played i can live. in episode 2 the ottoman side of the story the young turks wise to power. their alliance with germany. their terror and in the love i want and the seeds of our own will fold up. and in episode 3 how the 1st world war ended 4 centuries of alterman rule. but drew the lines in the sand that was shaped the middle east for the next 100 years. in the 2nd week of november 1914 the ultimate empire officially announced it was joining in germany and its allies. as in the war the grand mufti in istanbul also called on muslims around the world to join a jihad a struggle against britain russia

the 2 new zealand writer and broadcaster malik to leakey is on a personal journey exploring the role played by our troops in the 1st world war. algerians moroccans gymnasiums and egyptians fought on one site for the british and french. troops from the love on force for the ultimates on the side of johnny on the central palms. let. her. know muslims wanted to fight against fellow muslim. under the french colonies opposition to conscription and imperial occupation group. there were 2 uprisings in 191516 you know the southeastern chin is in town of gobby east on the libyan border. dissidents fighting there friends joined other rebels and our colleagues have been asking himself resisting the libyans. to battles took place in which hundreds of french soldiers were killed. by the rebels who fought the french like muhammad on the odyssey wrote themselves into chin is uniform he survived to fight the french many more times but was finally hanged by them in 1924. but despite regional resistance and rebellion the majority of north africans conscripted into the french army ultimately had no cho