Short description of the genocide of the Assyrians during World War I.
Book review of Morris and Ze'evi's book Thirty Years Genocide.
Deals with the politics of compensation for Nazi war crimes against Sinti and Roma
Deals with the growth of violence in the Late Ottoman Empire's province of Diyarbakir. It focuses on the deteriorating socio-economic situation of the Assyrian peoples and the pressure put on them by the government and local Kurdish strongmen.
The Assyrian peoples of Northern Mesopotamia and Eastern Anatolia were traditionally split into several rival religious sects - Nestorians, Jacobites, Chaldeans and various Catholic and Protestant groupings. Confronted by newly awakened Kurdish and Turkish nationalism, there were attempts to unify the various sects. But these efforts failed making the genocide during world war I much easier than if the groups made a common front.
Recension av tre böcker om armeniska folkmordet utkommna under 2011 och 2012
Short encyclopedia article on the Assyrian genocide during world war I in Ottoman Turkey and massacres that continued into 1930s in Iraq.
Describes the author's negotiations with president of the Turkish Historical Society for a commission to investigate the ARmenian and Assyrian genocides in Ottoman Empire.
This article deals with the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syrian Orthodox immigrants to Sweden. They form a large group coming mostly from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. From the start they have had complicated relations with the Swedish government and needed to navigate the country’s ever changing immigration and integration policies. The demands of living in diaspora has also aided in splitting the group into two rival sections. One calls itself “Assyrians” and is basically modernist and secular in orientation. The other calls itself “Syrian” and is basically traditionalist and religious in orientation. This bifurcation has had many consequences for the ability of the group to make an impact on the surrounding Swedish society.
Handlar om hur synen på äldre människor varierar genom historien och mellan olika kulturer. Kapitlet är en del av en lärobok.
Using the theory of Cultural Trauma decribes the failure of the Asssyrian Christians to find international recognition of their population destruction min the years immediately after World War I. And then the breakthrough for political recognition of the Assyrian Genocide in the 1990s through the efforts of immogrants from Tukey forming political associtions in the European dispora.
Keynote speech given at opening of Hrant Dink Foundation's conference in Mardin, Turkey November 2012. It deals with the various witness testimony on the genocide of the Assyrian and Armenian peoples living in the town of Mardin in 1915.
The diaspora of Armenians in Eastern Europe dates back to the Middle Ages. The text describes the medieval settlements. Then it reviews a new book by the Romanian-Armenian writer Varujan Vosganian, Book of Whispers.
Relations between Christians and Kurds worsened in Late Ottoman times. This article traces the dynamic in which neighborliness and coexistence ultimately led to genocide.
This article applies the concept of "cultures of violence" to the long-term violence directed against Christian minorities in the Middle East. It has a lon time perspective going back to the 1840s and the invasions of the Kurdish Leader Badr Khan up until the First World WAr.
En allmän översikt över folkmordet på assyrierna under första världskriget i Osmanska riket.