Rob, Kill and Burn
Youssef Ben Ismail: Massacre in Damascus, 6 March 2025
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
by Eugene Rogan.
Allen Lane, 377 pp., £30, May 2024,978 0 241 64690 8 Show More
by Eugene Rogan.
Allen Lane, 377 pp., £30, May 2024,
“... neighbourhoods. Conflict had flickered over the years but never caught flame. What happened? As Eugene Rogan writes in his new history, any answer to this question needs to consider the broader social, legal and economic transformations that had taken place in the preceding decades. In the early 1800s, Damascus was one of the Ottoman Empire’s most ... ”
