{"id":3832,"date":"2026-05-05T11:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/reason-religion-ottoman-syria\/?page_id=3832"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:21:16","slug":"narratives-of-conflict","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hosting2.northumbria.ac.uk\/reason-religion-ottoman-syria\/?page_id=3832","title":{"rendered":"Narratives of Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3832\" class=\"elementor elementor-3832\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-48ca7ec7 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"48ca7ec7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7ead33e\" data-id=\"7ead33e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1cddd604 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1cddd604\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Narratives of Conflict<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45384909 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"45384909\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3ab7e690\" data-id=\"3ab7e690\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2dd77537 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2dd77537\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><p><b>Narratives of Conflict in Bilad al-Sham, 19th and Early 20th Centuries&nbsp;<\/b><br><b>Co-organised with ERC project 'Moving Stories'<\/b><\/p><p>The Old Common Room, Balliol College, Oxford. Saturday 7 December 2024.<\/p><span><u>Progamme:<\/u><\/span><p><b>9.00-9.15. Welcome (with coffee)<\/b><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><b>9.15-10.45: Panel 1<\/b><\/p><p>Cyma Farah (Oxford): A Fighter\u2019s Memoir (from the Northern Bekaa, in the Great Syrian Revolt, 1925-27) \/ <i>Mudhakkirat <\/i>of Melhem Mahmoud Haydar<\/p><p>Joseph Leidy (Oxford): Yusuf Fransis al-Haj, <i>Kitab sir\u0101j al-layl fi sur\u016bj al-khayl<\/i> (1881)<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><b>10.45-11.00: Coffee break<\/b><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><b>11.00-1.15: Panel 2<\/b><\/p><p>Seda Altu\u011f (Bo\u011fazici): Labour, Sectarianism and Colonialism: The Jaziran question in the Writing of Khaled Bakdash<b> <\/b>\/ Khalid Bakdash, <i>Madha fi al-Jazira?<\/i> (1939)<b><\/b><\/p><p>Rosie Maxton (Oxford): Remembering unseen violence: Louis Cheikho and the Hamidian Massacres \/ Cheikho, <i>Min Bayrut ila al-Hind<\/i> (1912-13)<\/p><p>Andrew Arsan (Cambridge): \u2018Local plots\u2019 or \u2018Turkish treason\u2019: the events of 1860 in the writings of Bulus Nujaym \/ \u2018M. 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