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Doctor, Musician, businessman, and first US vice consul in Damascus in 1859: also known as Doctor Mishaqa, was born in Rashmayyā, Lebanon, and is reputed to be the first historian of modern Ottoman Syria as well as the virtual founder of the twenty-four equal quarter tone scale. Mishaqas memoir of the 1860 Syrian Civil War is valuable to historians, as it is the only account written by a survivor of the massacre of Syrian Christians in Damascus, Syria.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:25:33 +0000

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