This painting by Jan-Baptist Huysmans, a Belgian orientalist painter, depicts the Algerian Emir Abdelkader protecting Christians during the 1860 massacre by the Druze in Damascus.

This painting by Jan-Baptist Huysmans, a Belgian orientalist painter, depicts the Algerian Emir Abdelkader protecting Christians during the 1860 massacre by the Druze in Damascus.
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