In the summer of 1860 the city of Damascus exploded in a week of communal violence in which the mob massacred 5,000 Christians. Eugene Rogan, professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of Oxford, will examine in this conference 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 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to power, and the lessons of the Damascus Events more relevant than ever."La Fundación Ramón Areces no se hace responsable de las opiniones, comentarios o manifestaciones realizados por las personas que participan en sus actividades."
