The Damascus EventsThe dramatic history of a massacre in Damascus, and the collapse of the old Ottoman world order. This remarkable book recreates one of the watershed moments in the history of the Middle Eastthe ferocious outbreaks of disorder across the Levant in 1860, which resulted in the massacre of thousands of Christians in Damascus. Eugene Rogan brilliantly recreates the lost world of the Middle East under Ottoman rule. The once mighty empire was under pressure