Atrocities in the Levant through the Jesuit Archives: The Great Famine in Lebanon 1915-1918
- Event Type
- Conference/Workshop
- Sponsor
- Department of History, History, Philosophy, and Newspaper Library, Center for South Asia and Middle East Studies, Center for Global Studies, International and Areas Studies Library
- Location
- International and Areas Studies Library, 3rd Floor The Main Library
- Date
- Apr 23, 2025 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Contact
- Marc Abou Abdallah
- marcabd@illinois.edu
- Views
- 333
- Originating Calendar
- History Department Public Events
Join us for an event exploring the Jesuit archives at the Jesuit University in Beirut. The archive includes memoirs, diaries, letters, and other documents that detail various aspects of daily life during a severe period of starvation from 1915 to 1918. Notably, some of these documents feature the diary of Jesuit monk Louis Chaikho, who spent the war years in Beirut working to protect the library and archives of the Jesuit order from Ottoman confiscation.
Featured Talks:
The largest archive in the Middle East: The Jesuit archive in Lebanon by Dr. Christian Taoutel (Saint Joseph University of Beirut)
The emergence and collapse of the Ottoman Empire (16-20th centuries) by Dr. Marc Abou Abdallah (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
The Great Famine in Lebanon as seen through the Jesuit Archives (1915-1918) by Dr. Christian Taoutel (Saint Joseph University of Beirut)