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Director Edward Berger told the BBC last year that while the conclave was thought of as "an ancient spiritual ritual", he wanted to bring the participants "into modernity".

"Though the Assad-era constitutions formally proclaimed political freedoms… our experience of political modernity came in the form of shells falling on our heads, while our bodies were laid bare in detention camps," he tells me.

In this insightful and engaging international bestseller, Harari discusses how we got to where we are, showing readers how even our species’ imperfections defined modernity and shaped our planet.

It was a banner for those who reject modernity, for those who dream of a world ruled by “traditional values” and authoritarian strongmen.

In the French Republic’s revolutionary motto of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, which cracked open modernity, brotherhood’s place in ideas of freedom and social equality gets examined.