BATAS 2019 Lecture with Diana Darke

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The British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS) has announced its speaker and date for the 2019 John Martin Lecture.

Middle East Expert and Author Diana Darke will give a lecture entitled “Turkey and Syria: deep past connections, deep present differences.” The lecture will take place at 6.30 pm on Friday, 22 November 2019 at the Tuke Common Room, Regent’s University, London. Diana Darke has written extensively on the Middle East and Syria. She is the author of My House in Damascus, The Merchant of Syria and co-author of The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo.

Some of her work can be seen on her personal website.

Further information about the event can be viewed on the BATAS Website.

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