Museum Lectures

Belgium and the Ottoman Empire: Small States, Capital, and Transnational Elites

Houssine Alloul (University of Antwerp)

August 19, 2019 marked the 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain. Commemorating the roots and legacies of Afghan independence a century ago, Professor Faiz Ahmed unearths a lost history behind Afghanistan’s founding as a modern nation-state between the Ottoman and British empires, the subject of his book, Afghanistan Rising (Harvard University Press).