Bread From Stones: The Middle East & Making of Humanitarianism

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The Commonwealth Club of California
555 Post Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

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Bread From Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism

Keith David Watenpaugh, Associate Professor and Director of Human Rights Studies, University of California Davis
Priya Satia, Associate Professor of Modern British History, Stanford University; Author, Spies in Arabia - Moderator

Hear Watenpaugh, a noted Middle East historian and educator, discuss his latest book, Bread from Stones: The Middle East and the Making of Modern Humanitarianism. Watenpaugh will elaborate on the development of helping victims following the mass violence, genocide, displacement of millions, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the advent of late colonialism in the Middle East.

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415-597-6700

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