Philip Mansel in conversation with Robert Myers

Philip Mansel is a historian and author of a number of books about revolutionary and post-revolutionary France, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Mansel has published eleven books of history and biography. In his latest book, Levant: Splendor And Catastrophe On The Mediterranean, Mansel turns his attention to three mixed cities, which attracted people of different religions and cultures: Alexandria, Beirut and Izmir, cities of the Levant along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. Mansel is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the Institute of Historical Research, the Royal Asiatic Society and a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles. He received the London Library Life in Literature Award in 2012. 

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