{"id":5005,"date":"2016-09-15T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/?page_id=5005"},"modified":"2016-10-12T15:33:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T19:33:38","slug":"sectarianismcoexistence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/sectarianismcoexistence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sectarianism and Coexistence in the Modern Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Professor Makdisi seeks to provide a historical perspective to the contemporary sectarian tragedy in the modern Middle East. He uncovers a modern culture of coexistence in a region that is rich in religious diversity, but which today encompasses a series of war-torn countries including Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ussama S. Makdisi, Professor of History, Rice University<br \/>\nThursday, October 20 @ 4:00 PM<br \/>\n121 Bay State Rd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cura\/files\/2016\/10\/makdisiforweb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cura\/files\/2016\/10\/makdisiforweb-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"makdisiforweb\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/files\/2016\/10\/makdisiforweb-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/files\/2016\/10\/makdisiforweb-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Makdisi seeks to provide a historical perspective to the contemporary sectarian tragedy in the modern Middle East. He uncovers a modern culture of coexistence in a region that is rich in religious diversity, but which today encompasses a series of war-torn countries including Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Ussama S. Makdisi, Professor of History, Rice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7692,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5005\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}