Eugene Rogan

Eugene Rogan is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford and Director of the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford.  He took his B.A. in economics from Columbia, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from Harvard.  He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991.  In 2017 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. 

His new book is The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman Order (Penguin and Basic Books, 2024).  He is also author of The Arabs: A History (Penguin and Basic Books, 2009, 2017), which was named one of the best books of 2009 by The Economist, The Financial Times, and The Atlantic Monthly, and The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East (Penguin and Basic Books, 2015), named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist and The Wall Street Journal, and the British Army Military Book of the Year 2016.  His works have been translated into eighteen languages.

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); and Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2002).