Position:
Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History; Fellow of St Antony's College
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / St Antony's College
Email:
eugene.rogan@ames.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- The Arab world from the 18th to the 20th century
- Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire
- The Palestine War of 1948
- The First World War in the Middle East
Current Projects:
- Sectarian Conflict and Reconstruction in Nineteenth Century Damascus: The 1860 Massacres Reconsidered
Courses Taught:
- Further Subject: The Middle East in the Age of Empire, 1830-1971 (undergraduate option)
- The History of the Middle East, 1860-1970 (M.Phil. option)
Recent Publications:
- The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920, New York and London: Basic Books and Penguin, 2015
- The Arabs: A History, New York and London: Basic Books and Penguin, 2009, 2nd ed 2012
- Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East (ed.) London: I.B. Tauris, 2001
- The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (eds) with Avi Shlaim. Cambridge: C.U.P., 2008
- Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire. Transjordan, 1850-1921, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999
- with A.K. Bowman (eds.), Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times (Proceedings of the British Academy, 96), Oxford: Oxford University Press 1999
- "Asiret Mektebi: Abdulhamid II's School for Tribes", International Journal of Middle East Studies 28 (1996): 83-107
