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)