THE 2018
DAVID ROBERTS MEMORIAL LECTURE
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Date:
Tue. 16 January 18
Time:
Doors open
5:45pm (ends
7.45pm)
Devastated Lands:
Lebanon at the end of the Great War
To be given by
Professor Eugene Rogan
Please note this lecture is free but it
would help us to manage numbers if
you could RSVP to us at the British
Lebanese Association.
The First World War had brought an unprecedented degree of
loss and suffering to the people of Lebanon. This lecture
examines through works of literature and eyewitness
accounts how the people of Lebanon looked back on the
Ottoman experience and their different expectations of the
post-Ottoman world.
Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s
College, University of Oxford. He is author of The Arabs: A History
(Penguin, 2009), which has been translated in ten languages and
was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Economist, The
Financial Times, and The Atlantic Monthly.
His earlier works include Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman
Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1999), for which he received
the Albert Hourani Book Award of the Middle East Studies
Association of North America and the Fuad Köprülü Prize of the
Turkish Studies Association; The War for Palestine: Rewriting the
History of 1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2001, second edition
2007, with Avi Shlaim), which has been published in Arabic, French,
Turkish and Italian editions; and Outside In: On the Margins of the
Modern Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2002). The Fall of the Ottomans:
The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920, was published in
February 2015.
Tuesday 16th January 2018
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History
Director, St Antony's College Middle East
Centre.