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The Relevance of the 1860 Damascus Events to Greater Syria Today
Humanities Conference Monday, 28 april 2025, 19:00 hours Madrid
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Venue: Fundación Ramón Areces - salón de actos. Calle Vitruvio, 5. 28006. Madrid.
Free attendance until full capacity is reached. Prior online registration is required. Simultaneous interpretation.
The auditorium is equipped with a magnetic loop system.
Speaker/s:
Eugene Rogan is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford.
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In the summer of 1860 the city of Damascus exploded in a week of communal violence in which the mob massacred 5,000 Christians. This talk will examine the measures taken by the Ottoman authorities to restore law and order, rebuild the devastated Christian quarters, and reintegrate the Christian survivors into the life of the city. The success of the Ottoman reconstruction measures may be judged by the secular political order they established in Damascus that was to survive French imperialism and Arab nationalism down to the autocracy of the Asad family. The future of this Ottoman legacy is now in question with the fall of the Asads and the rise of the salafi Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham to power, and the lessons of the Damascus Events more relevant than ever – not just in Syria, but in neighbouring Lebanon and Israel/Palestine as well.
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Programme
Monday, 28 April
18:30 h.
Register of attendees
19:00 h.
Welcome and presentation
Miguel Jerez Méndez
Fundación Ramón Areces.
19:10 h.
The Relevance of the 1860 Damascus Events to Greater Syria Today
Eugene Rogan
Professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford.
Speaker/s
Eugen Rogan
Is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford, where he has taught since 1991. He is a Fellow of St Antony’s College, and Director of Oxford’s Middle East Centre. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is author of Los Árabes del Imperio Otomano a la Actualidad (Crítica, 2010, 2018), and La caída de los otomanos: La Gran Guerra en el Oriente Próximo (Critica, 2015). His latest book, Los sucesos de Damasco, is published by Critica in April 2025. His books have been translated into 18 languages..
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