#  The Middle East at War -- 1914-1922: A Round Table 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 8, 2015** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA**  



 

 



 

**The Center for Middle Eastern Studies** will mark the centenary of Turkey’s entry into the First World War in the Middle East by organizing a small, one-day, round-table to include the military campaigns and associated events in Anatolia and the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire, as well as Egypt: *The Middle East at War – 1914-1922: A Round Table*, organized by Harvard Department of History Professors Roger Owen and Cemal Kafadar.  
  
This roundtable will concentrate on:  
-The military: battles and campaigns (at sea, on land, in the air), intelligence collection, conditions of service, treatment of the injured, conduct towards Prisoners of War;  
-The home front in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire: impact, civilian morale, rationing, propaganda, attitude to non-combatants; and,  
-Literary reflections on the war via poems, short stories, collections of letters.

Participants include:  
**M. Talha Cicek**, History, İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi, Turkey  
**Cemal Kafadar**, History, Harvard University  
**Hasan Kayalı**, History, UC San Diego  
**Tilman Lüdke**, Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut für kulturwissenschaftliche, Freiburg, Germany   
**Roger Owen**, History, Harvard University  
**Elizabeth Thompson**, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

**Contact**: [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ History ](/research-field/history)
- [ North Africa ](/research-region/north-africa)
- [ Turkey ](/research-region/turkey)
- [ 2014-15 ](/academic-year/2014-15)
 
 

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