Presentation: "‘We will treat you as we did with the Armenians’: Cemal Pasha, Zionism and the Evacuation of Jaffa, April 1917"

Event Date: 
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Thunder Bay Campus: ATAC 1010 -- Orillia Campus: OA 2006
Event Fee: 
Free. Everyone is welcome.
Event Contact Name: 
Dr. Michel S. Beaulieu
Event Contact Phone: 
(807) 343-8341
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The Department of History presents Dr. Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois University, who will give a free public presentation entitled  "‘We will treat you as we did with the Armenians’: Cemal Pasha, Zionism and the Evacuation of Jaffa, April 1917." Image of Dr. Roberto Mazza

Speaker Bio: Dr. Roberto Mazza is an Assistant Professor History at Western Illinois University. He is the author of Jerusalem: From the Ottomans to the British (2009) and co-editor of Jerusalem in World War One: the Palestine Diary of a European Diplomat (2011). Dr. Mazza holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, a MSc in International Relations from Italy’s Bolgona University, and and MA in Government and Politics of the Middle East from SOAS. Click here for more information about the speaker.