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“A Murder in Damascus: ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Shahbandar’s Assassination in 1940 and the Potentials of Microhistory”

Thursday, February 10, 2022
3:30 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
“A Murder in Damascus: ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Shahbandar’s Assassination in 1940 and the Potentials of Microhistory”

The talk uses a political murder as a lens for the disentanglement of the local, regional, and global dynamics that influenced the perceptions of a variety of actors in the crime and its aftermath, in the context of social change, the advent of decolonization, and the upheaval of World War II.

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102 Weaver Building

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