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Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Tuesday Aug 13, 2024
Eugene Rogan on "The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World" (Allen Lane). The book examines how in July 1860 Damascus exploded in communal violence when a mostly Muslim crowd tried to exterminate the Christian community, after hundreds of years of relative peace and coexistence.
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