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 PhD in Middle Eastern history from Harvard. He taught at Boston College and Sarah Lawrence College before taking up his post in Oxford in 1991, where he teaches the modern history of the Middle East.
Books in order of publication:
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2002).
The Arabs: A History (Penguin, 2009).
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920 (Penguin, 2015).
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World (Penguin, 2024).
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