Selected Publications
ܟܬܒܼܐ ܡܒܘܣܡܢܐ ܡܓܘܒܝܐ ܒܝܕ ܐܣܝܬܐ ܥܕܝܢ ܢܒܝ
 

I.  Titles published and available

• "Saving Souls/Saving Languages: Writing Vernacular Aramaic," Proceedings of FEL XI: WORKING TOGETHER FOR ENDANGERD LANGUAGES: RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND SOCIAL IMPACT (University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 2007) pp. 141-147.

• “Theater, Language and Inter-Ethnic Exchange: Assyrian Performance before World War I,” Iranian Studies, 40:4, 501-510.

• “Assyrian entries for the Encyclopedia Iranica: Benefits and Sources,” Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies, 21:1, ???

• "The First Kurdish Periodical in Iran," International Journal of Kurdish Studies Vol. 20, nos. 1&2 (2006) pp. 215-233.

• “Honey and Vinegar: Attitudes toward Iran's Assyrian Christians” http://www.iranian.com/Books/2006/March/EN/index.html

• "A Memorial to an Assyrian Refugee, 1922" The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History, edited by Camron Amin et al, (Oxford University Press, 2005).

• "Ishtar: Documenting the Crisis in the Assyrian Iranian Community," Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 10, no. 4, (December 2006), pp. 92-102.

• “The Plight of Christians in Iraq,” The New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 19 November 30, 2006.

• "The First Kurdish Periodical in Iran," International Journal of Kurdish Studies  Vol. 20, nos. 1&2 (2006) pp. 215-233.

• “Honey and Vinegar:  Attitudes toward Iran's Assyrian Christians” http://www.iranian.com/Books/2006/March/EN/index.html

• “Assyrian Nationalism in Iraq: Survival under Religious and Ethnic Threat” in W Burszta, T Kamusella, S Wojciechowski, Eds. Nationalisms Across THE GLOBE (Vol II: The World). 2005 Poznan, Poland: Wyzsza Szkola Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa; Instytut Slowianski PAN; and Instytut Zachodni. (Higher School of Social Sciences and Journalism). Introduction Well of Ararat by Emmanuel Varandyan (Belmont, MA: Armenian Heritage Press, 2005) pp. i-iii.

• “The Assyrian Diaspora: Cultural Survival in the Absence of State Structure,” in S. Mehendale and T. Atabegi, Eds. Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora (Routledge, Keegan, Paul, 2005 ) Pp. 214-230.

• “The Afghan Diaspora: Reflections on an Imagined Country,” in S. Mehendale and T. Atabegi, Eds. Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora. Routledge, Keegan, Paul, 2005?, pp. 169-183.

• Introduction  Well of Ararat by Emmanuel Varandyan (Belmont, MA: Armenian Heritage Press, 2005) pp. i-iii.

• “Almost Family: Assyrians and Armenians in Massachusetts,” Armenians of New England : celebrating a culture and preserving a heritage ed. Marc A. Mamigonian. (Belmont, MA : Armenian Heritage Press, 2004), p.43-52.

• “The Afghan Neighborhood and Future Stability” in John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli, Eds. BEYOND RECONSTRUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN: LESSONS FROM DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE (NY, PalgraveMacMillan, 2004) pp. 213-224.

• “From Lingua Franca to Endangered Language: The Legal Aspects of the Preservation of Aramaic in Iraq” Joan A. Argenter and R. McKenna Brown, ed. On the Margins of Nations: Endangered Languages and Language Rights. Bath, England: FEL 2004 ISBN: 0 9538248 61.

• “The Fate of Iraq's Christians,” INFORMED Comment Monday, September 13, 2004. 
www.juancole.com/2004/09/fate-of-iraqs-christians-eden-naby.html

• “Will the Indigenous Christians of Iraq Survive?” Europe Infos Nr. 59 (4/2004) http://www.comece.org/comece.taf?_function=ei_new&sub_id=10&id=7&language=en

• “Almost Family: Assyrians and Armenians in Massachusetts,” Armenians of New England : celebrating a culture and preserving a heritage ed. Marc A. Mamigonian. (Belmont, MA : Armenian Heritage Press, 2004), p.43-52.

•   “The Assyrians of Iran: Reunification of a ‘Millat,’ 1906-1914” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 8. (1977) Pp. 237-249.

• “Assyrian Nationalism in Iraq:  Survival under Religious and Ethnic Threat” in W Burszta, T Kamusella, S Wojciechowski, Eds. Nationalisms Across THE GLOBE (Vol II: The World). 2005 Poznan, Poland: Wyzsza Szkola Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa; Instytut Slowianski PAN; and Instytut  Zachodni. (Higher School of Social Sciences and Journalism).

• “The Assyrian diaspora: cultural survival in the absence of state structure,” in S. Mehendale and T. Atabegi, Eds. Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora  (Routledge, Keegan, Paul, 2005? ) Pp. 214-230.

• “The Afghan Diaspora: Reflections on an Imagined Country,” in S. Mehendale and T. Atabegi, Eds. Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and DIASPORA Routledge, Keegan, Paul, 2005?, pp. 169-183.

• “Honey and Vinegar: Attitudes toward Iran's Assyrian Christians” http://www.iranian.com/Books/2006/March/EN/index.html

• "Ishtar: Documenting the Crisis in the Assyrian Iranian Community," Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 10, no. 4, (December 2006), pp. 92-102.

• “The Plight of Christians in Iraq,” The New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 19 November 30, 2006.

• Reprint of the prize-winning 1937 novel The Well of Ararat (by Emmanuel Varandyan, with a new preface by Prof. Richard Frye and Dr. Eden Naby).

• "A Memorial to an Assyrian Refugee, 1922" The Modern Middle East:  A Sourcebook for History, edited by Camron Amin et al, (Oxford University Press, 2005).

• Introduction Well of Ararat by Emmanuel Varandyan (Belmont, MA: Armenian Heritage Press, 2005) pp. i-iii.

•  “Almost Family: Assyrians and Armenians in Massachusetts,” Armenians of New England : celebrating a culture and preserving a heritage ed. Marc A. Mamigonian. (Belmont, MA : Armenian Heritage Press, 2004), p.43-52.

• “The Afghan Neighborhood and Future Stability” in John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli, Eds. BEYOND RECONSTRUCTION IN AFGHANISTAN: LESSONS FROM DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE  (NY, PalgraveMacMillan, 2004) pp.  213-224.

• “From Lingua Franca to Endangered Language: The Legal Aspects of the Preservation of Aramaic in Iraq” Joan A. Argenter and R. McKenna Brown, ed. On the Margins of Nations: Endangered Languages and Language Rights.  Bath, England: FEL 2004 ISBN: 0 9538248 61.

• “The Fate of Iraq's Christians,” INFORMED Comment Monday, September 13, 2004. 
  www.juancole.com/2004/09/fate-of-iraqs-christians-eden-naby.html

• “Will the Indigenous Christians of Iraq Survive?” Europe Infos Nr. 59 (4/2004) http://www.comece.org/comece.taf?_function=ei_new&sub_id=10&id=7&language=en

• “The Martyr Complex” The New York Times  Op Ed (with Richard N. Frye) Sunday, September 14, 2003 www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2003/9.15.03/index.php#Literatus

• “Tajikistan,” in Ember, Carol R., Melvin Ember, and Ian Skoggard, Eds. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD CULTURES SUPPLEMENT. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002.

• AFGHANISTAN: MULLAH, MARX AND MUJAHID (Westview Press, 1998) (with Ralph H. Magnus) paperback, 1999, revised for July 2002 (also in Persian translation).

• THE ASSYRIAN EXPERIENCE: SOURCES FOR THE STUDY OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES (Cambridge, Harvard College, 1999) (with Michael E. Hopper).

• “Christian Assyrian Architecture of Iran,” News – Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions (Spring 1998) vol. 5, no. 2, p. 7, 10.

• ASSYRIAN CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE OF IRAN (Cambridge, 1998) Catalogue of exhibit sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions - Harvard University.

• “Turkestan or Xinjiang: Inducements and Constraints for Political Action,” THE ROLES OF THE UNITED STATES, RUSSIAN AND CHINA IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER Ed. By Hafeez Malik (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1997) pp.238-258.

• “Afghanistan and Central Asia:  Mirrors and Models,” (with Ralph H. Magnus) Asian Survey July 1995 Vol. XXXV, no. 7, pp. 605-620.

• The Modernization of Inner Asia (with Cyril E.Black, Louis Dupree, Elizabeth Endicott-West, Daniel C. Matuszewski,  Eden Naby, Waldron, Arthur N. Waldron) (Armonk,  M.E. Sharpe, 1991).

• “Islam within the Afghan Resistance.”  Third World Quarterly (1988), pp. 787-805.

• “The Concept of Jihad in Opposition to Communist Rule: Turkestan and Afghanistan,” Studies in Comparative Communism, (1986) Vol. XIX, no. 3/4, pp. 287-300.

• “The Changing Role of Islam as a Unifying Force in Afghanistan, “THE State, religion, and ethnic POLITICS: Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, Ed. By Ali Banuazizi,  Myron Weiner (Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1986) pp. 124-154..

• “Assyrians,” Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (with Arian Ishaya) (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1980).

• “The Ethnic Factor in Soviet-Afghan Relations,” Asian Survey, March (1980) Vol. XX, No.  pp.237-256.

• “The Iranian Frontier Nationalities: The Kurds, the Assyrians, the Baluch and the Turkmens,”Soviet Asian Ethnic Frontiers, ed.by McCagg and Silver (New York, Pergamon Press, 1979).

• “Rebellion in Kurdistan,” Harvard International Review (1979) Vol. II, no. 3, pp. 1,5-7, 29.

• “Les Assyriens d'Union soviétique,” Cahiers du Monde russe, 16/3-4. 197http://monderusse.revues.org/document210.html

• “The Assyrians of Iran: Reunification of a ‘Millat,’ 1906-1914” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 8. (1977) Pp. 237-249.

II.  Forthcoming publications
 

• “World War I and the Displacement of Iranian Assyrians in Azarbaijan,” IRAN: The First World War and the Emergence of the Modern State, Edited by Touraj Atabaki.

• Contributing Editor for Modern Assyrians for the Encyclopedia Iranica (Columbia University) and responsible for about 300 entries most of which are being written by Eden Naby.

• “Theater, Language and Inter-Ethnic Exchange: Assyrian Performance before WWI,” Iranian Studies (special issue on Qajar Entertainment) 2007.

• “Putting Assyrians into Middle East Literature: Memoirs and Novels,” MESA Bulletin, June 2007.

• “Nestorian Crosses,” Proceedings of the Antoon Mostaert Center (Ulanbataar, Mongolia) 2007.

• “Review Article on three Recent Books on Kurds,” Iranian Studies.
   

III. Selected Recent Lectures
 

• International Society for Iranian Studies – “Demographic and Cultural Change in The Urmiya area:  An Assyrian village.”  May 2004 (Washington, DC).

• Foundation for Endangered Languages    “From Lingua Franca to Endangered Language: The Legal Aspects of the Preservation of Aramaic in Iraq” (Barcelona -2004).

• Chaldean, Syriac, Assyrian Conference “Academic contributions to the history of Of Syriac-Speaking people” (Baghdad, 2003).

• MESA   “Whispered Shame: The Abduction of Women in 19th & 20th Century Assyrian Communities in Iran” (Anchorage- 2003).

• International Assyrian Congress, “Prospects For Development: Reaching Out Of Our Ghetto, ” Moscow, April 2002.

• Society for Iranian Studies, “Identity and Institutions among Assyrian-Iranians in
  The United States,” Washington, DC (May 2002).

• “The Afghan Diaspora”  (Diasporas in Central Asia and the Caucasus) UC Berkeley (2002).

• AOS -  “The Cultural Context for the Syriac Periodical Press” in EN organized  anel WRITING SYRIAC: FROM STONE TO BYTES Toronto (March 2001).

• MELAMMU  - “Al-Biruni and the Assyrian King Lists” Ravenna Oct. 2001.

• MESA  - “With Help from Friends: ZB, the first newspaper in Iran” SF (Nov.2001).

• MELAMMU - “Architectural and Funerary Connections of Assyrians in Iran” Chicago (Oct.2000).

• MESA - “The Persian Cultural Setting and the Diversion of Assyrian Identity” Washington, DC (Nov. 2000).

• “The Taliban in Afghanistan,” “Women in Central Asia,” “Assyrian Survival in The Context of Middle Eastern Christianity” Florida International University, 1999.

• MESA 1999 -  “Assyrian integration in cultural Diaspora”. “Assyrian Periodicals From The American Diaspora: Selected Titles With Holdings At Harvard College Library”.