Was Beirut A Levantine City? Talk at AUB

As part of the Hay Festival 2013, the American University of Beirut will hosting a conversation between Philip Mansel and Robert Myers at Building 37.

Philip Mansel is a historian and author of a number of books about revolutionary and post-revolutionary France, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Mansel has published eleven books of history and biography. In his latest book, “Levant: Splendor And Catastrophe On The Mediterranean”, Mansel turns his attention to three mixed cities, which attracted people of different religions and cultures: Alexandria, Beirut and Izmir, cities of the Levant along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

Free entrance