September 10, 2024 | 3:30 PM IST
We are excited to announce our next ASIA SenseMaker session on September 10 at 3:30 PM IST! Join us as Prof. Eugene Rogan, Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College and Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford, shares insights from his book, The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World.
About the book: An award-winning scholar’s account of an ancient city’s descent into unprecedented communal violence—an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern Middle East. The Damascus Events offers a vivid history, one that masterfully uncovers the outbreak of violence that unmade a great city and examines the possibility, even after searing conflict and unimaginable tragedy, of repair.
About the Guest: Eugene Rogan is a Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History 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.
This session will be moderated by Prof. Amogh Rai, Research Director at ASIA.
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