presentation: "‘we will treat you as we did with the armenians’: cemal pasha, zionism and the evacuation of jaffa, april 1917"

the department of history presents dr. roberto mazza, western illinois university, who will give a free public presentation entitled  "‘we will treat you as we did with the armenians’: cemal pasha, zionism and the evacuation of jaffa, april 1917." 

speaker bio: dr. roberto mazza is an assistant professor history at western illinois university. he is the author of jerusalem: from the ottomans to the british (2009) and co-editor of jerusalem in world war one: the palestine diary of a european diplomat (2011). dr. mazza holds a phd from the school of oriental and african studies (soas), university of london, a msc in international relations from italy’s bolgona university, and and ma in government and politics of the middle east from soas. click here for more information about the speaker.