The Great War in the Middle East

Historian Priya Satia investigates the tactics used by British agents in the Middle East during World War I. 

Satia, associate professor of modern British history at Stanford University, authored Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East. Her talk will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, in Alumni Recitation Hall, Room 302.

Satia’s work examines military tactics, intelligence gathering, and other strategies the British used before, during, and after the war, and their enormous cultural and political impact in Europe, South Asia, and the Middle East.

This event is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and is open to the public. The Center is marking the centenary of the Great War with events, exhibitions, and lectures this year that look at the social, political, and cultural changes that emerged as a consequence of the First World War and other wars in the 20th and 21st centuries.