Wednesday 27 November 2024
12:30
Professor Eugene Rogan
What can the Damascus Events of 1860 teach us?
Eugene will tell the story of what happened in Damascus in 1860, discussing the lessons we can learn from that period and how they relate to current tensions in the Middle East.
Eugene is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has a B.A. in economics from Columbia, and an M.A. and PhD in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991, where he teaches the modern history of the Middle East to both undergraduates and graduates as well as providing DPhil supervision. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. He is an award winning author, recent titles including The Damascus Events: and The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East 1914-1920.
‘A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres―much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East’
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Oxford University
Eugene is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He has a B.A. in economics from Columbia, and an M.A. and PhD in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991, where he teaches the modern history of the Middle East to both undergraduates and graduates as well as providing DPhil supervision. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017. He is an award winning author, recent titles including The Damascus Events: and The Arabs: A History and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East 1914-1920.
