Eugene Rogan > Quotes

“The Arab people are haunted by a sense of powerlessness . . . powerlessness to suppress the feeling that you are no more than a lowly pawn on the global chessboard even as the game is being played in your backyard.”6 Unable to achieve their aims in the modern world, the Arabs see themselves as pawns in the game of nations, forced to play by other peoples’ rules. This”
― Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

“Muslim crowds massacred thousands of Armenians in the south-eastern city of Adana. The roots of the pogrom dated back to the 1870s. In the course of the First World War, that hostility would metastasize into the first genocide of the twentieth century.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“Like the Armenians, the Assyrian Christians of the Ottoman Empire were accused of making common cause with Russia at the outset of the Great War. The Assyrians are a Christian ethnic group who speak dialects derived from ancient Aramaic. For centuries they lived among the Kurdish communities in the border regions of the modern states of Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Iraq. The Nestorians, Chaldeans, and Syrian Orthodox Christians are the main Assyrian denominations.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920

“From 1517 onward, the Arabs would negotiate their place in the world through rules set in foreign capitals, a political reality that would prove one of the defining features of modern Arab history.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

“Many in the West see the greatest threat to their security and way of life coming from the Arab and Islamic worlds, in what is now known as jihadi terror. They don’t understand that many in the Arab and Islamic worlds see the greatest threat to their security and way of life coming from the West. What should be apparent to both sides is that there is a real connection between Arab stagnation and frustration, on the one hand, and the terror threat that so preoccupies Western democracies, on the other. Western”
― Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

“The era of early Islam is a source of pride to all Arabs as a bygone age when the Arabs were the dominant power in the world, but resonates in particular with Islamists, who argue that the Arabs were greatest when they adhered most closely to their Muslim faith. Kassir”
― Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

“As early as 1906, Oppenheim predicted, “In the future Islam will play a much larger role. . . . [T]he striking power and demographic strength of Islamic lands will one day have a great significance for European states.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“The diplomatic Faysal was the ideal candidate for the commission. A loyal but critical Ottomanist who had served in parliament as a member from the Hijaz, Faysal was known to be a supporter of the empire.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“escindido”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“adalid.”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“minar”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“The object of these men is to keep the Armenian cause alive by lighting a flame here and there and calling: Fire!”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920

“azuzó”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“Of all the cities of the east that our men had passed through,” one New Zealand cavalry officer recalled, “Jericho easily led the way as the filthiest and most evil-smelling of them all.”8”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“aupar”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“House, and ships in harbour”. Worse yet, the wells and”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“The Ottoman Empire under the sultan had degenerated into a police state. Political activists were imprisoned and exiled, newspapers and magazines were heavily censored, and citizens looked over their shoulders before speaking, fearful of the ubiquitous spies working for the government.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1965 film, The Battle of Algiers.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

“In a brief letter to Walter Rothschild dated 2 February, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issued the declaration that would come to bear his name: His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“Balfour, a member of the Conservative Party, took Winston Churchill’s place as first lord of the Admiralty. Churchill, condemned for his role in the unsuccessful naval campaign in the Dardanelles, was demoted to chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, becoming essentially a minister without portfolio.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“acerba”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“escindida”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“envites”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“pírrica,”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“imbuir”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“pergeñaría”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“orlado”
― Eugene Rogan, Los árabes: Del imperio otomano a la actualidad (Serie Mayor)

“وفي ١٩ نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني استقل السادات —
بصحبة بطرس غالي—طائرة حكومية قطعت الرحلة التي تستغرق خمًساوأربعين دقيقة إلى تل أبيب. قال بطرس غالي متعجبًا: »لم أكن أعرف أن المسافة قصيرة إلى
هذا الحد! لقد كانت إسرائيل تبدو لي غريبة وكأنها بلد في الفضاء الخارجي”
― Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History

“Tensions ran high in 1920 as Jewish immigration, encouraged by the Balfour Declaration, accelerated. Between 1919 and 1921, over 18,500 Zionist immigrants flocked to Palestine’s shores.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

“The German offer remained the best deal on the table, and by the end of August the Ottomans reverted to their special relationship with the Central Powers. That the Young Turks approached the Russians at all demonstrated the lengths to which they were willing to go in order to stay out of Europe’s war.”
― Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920