The Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
at the University of Ottawa invites you to a public lecture
Dr. Eugene Rogan
Director, Middle East Centre, Oxford University
Friday November 16, 5 pm
Location: Fauteux 147A
The Tyranny of Strangers:
Approaches to the Modern History of the Arabs
With the Ottoman conquest of the Arab lands in the sixteenth century, the Arab world came to be ruled from a foreign capital for the first time since the rise of Islam. From that point forward, the Arab world has been forced to engage with the modern world by other people's rules -- Ottoman rules from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, European rules in the age of empire, the rules of the Cold War between the 1940s and 1990s. The Arabs today live under the dual constraints of American unipolar power and the alien workings of the global economy.
Eugene Rogan is Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Middle East history from Harvard. He is currently writing a major history of the modern Arab world for Basic Books and Penguin Books.