Oxford historian Eugene Rogan examines the long road back to normalcy after the deeply divisive Christian massacres of 1860 drawing on extensive research into contemporary Arabic and Ottoman sources. Eugene Rogan is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991. In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. His new book is The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman Order (Penguin and Basic Books, 2024). He is also author of The Arabs: A History (Penguin and Basic Books, 2009, 2017), which was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Atlantic Monthly, and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Penguin and Basic Books, 2015), named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, and the British Army Military Book of the Year 2016. His works have been translated into eighteen languages.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
