Eugene Rogan on communal violence and the end of the old Ottoman world

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Eugene Rogan, professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford, 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 - a shocking eruption of violence after hundreds of years of relative peace and coexistence. It looks at why tensions built up in the decades before 1860, as well as how the Ottoman authorities oversaw recovery of the region in the aftermath. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2998854&fan_landing=true Substack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com/

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