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 | Above: The medal of the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is pinned onto Philip Mansel by Bernard Emié, the French Ambassador, on 24 May 2012 at the French Embassy in London.
Below: L to R - Nicky Dunne (Chairman of Heywood Hill), Philip Mansel, the Duchess of Cornwall and Tom Stoppard at the Reading Room of the London Library on 1 May 2012 when Philip was presented with the 2012 London Library Life in Literature Award. |
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| Photo: Dafydd Jones | |
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| Prince Abbas Hilmi and Philip Mansel after his lecture in AUC Cairo on ‘Levantine Cities’. | |
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| How to Understand Turkey: Discussion hosted by the Royal Institution, London, 17 October 2013. The historians Norman Stone and Philip Mansel, Istanbul based journalist Andrew Finkel, and novelist Elif Shafak explored the history of the country, the legacy of Ataturk, and the political situation today. | |
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| Lecture and reception for ‘Aleppo: the Rise and Fall of Syria’s Great Merchant City’, at the Belgian Embassy, London, 15 March 2016, Philip Mansel, the Belgian ambassador Guy Trouveroy (in grey tie) and friends. | |
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Philip Mansel receiving the Order of the Crown, Belgian Embassy, London, 10 June 2016 |
In Beit Achikbash, Aleppo, Syria - Photo by Aouni Abdul Rahim, 1998 |
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| Philip Mansel with Maya Chehade 13 July 2016 post group discussion ‘Understanding Syria’, with Elif Shafak and Maya Chehade - Waterstones’s, Piccadilly, London - video: |  |
| Philip Mansel with Nigar Alemdar (on the left: translated 3 of Philip’s book to Turkish) and her daughter Melis Alemdar, Istanbul, November 2017 | |
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| Beyoğlu Levantine conference stage, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2017 | |
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| Philip Mansel speaking at the Levantine conference Istanbul, November 2017 | |
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| Philip Mansel lecture on Aleppo, with Syrian musican Ibrahim Keivo, August 2018, Purbeck International Music Festival, Smedmore House | |
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| Lecturing on Salonica at the third Levantine Heritage Foundation international conference, Athens, November 2018 | |
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| Philip Mansel with Griselda Roupell and friends. | |
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| Lecture on ‘From Mohammed Ali Pasha to King Farouk: the Rise and Fall of Royal Alexandria’ Egyptian Cultural Centre and Education Bureau, London, 4 December 2018 with Dr Reem Bahgat. | |
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| Book launch of King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV, with Prof Tim Blanning, at the French Institute, London, 4 July 2019. | |
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| Galignani, Paris, October 2019. | |
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| With friends at ‘The Sun King and the Sultan: Louis XIV and the Ottoman Empire’, lecture given at the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 October 2019 | |
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The Oldie Literary Lunch, 3 December 2019 - all photos in series courtesy of Neil Spence | |
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Philip Mansel and Jonathan Keates, Venice in Peril, London, 20 January 2020 | |
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Lecture on ‘Versailles and the English’ at the Versailles town library, 11 September 2020: Photo Sophie Lardenois. | |
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With the Mayor of Izmir Tunç Soyer at the presentation: ‘The port city of Izmir: A story of Levantines’, 20 September 2023, Izmir, Turkey - gallery: | |
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Hybrid joint Symposium with the School of Advanced Study, University of London: ‘Trieste and the Levant’, 27 November 2024 - Woburn Suite, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU - information: - video: From left: Katia Pizzi, Michael Cottakis, Philip Mansel, Richard Bassett. | |
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At Caunes-Minervois, 30 December 2024. | |
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In front of an 1825 obelisk fountain celebrating the reign of Charles X, Photo Didier Girard. | |
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Speaking at the Georgian Group, London, 4 January 2025, on ‘Louis and George, Friends, Allies and Fathers of the Entente Cordiale’, with Paul Zisman left, and Martin Randall right - video: | |