Recent attacks on churches in Egypt and Iraq show that indigenous Christians face an uncertain future in the Middle East. In a region where religion is a fundamental component of life, religious violence is an issue that appears to have been side lined in news covering the Arab Spring. Yet these attacks are profoundly significant. …
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Hannibal Travis is a Professor of Law at Florida International University. The following is astracted from an article published in Genocide Studies and Prevention: …
Armenia has announced the award of a Presidential Prize to Israeli genocide scholar, Prof. Israel W. Charny. The prize has been awarded in recognition of Charny's contributions to greater world recognition of the Armenian Genocide and for his academic researches of the phenomenon of denials of genocide …
In a landmark resolution adopted by the National Women's Labor Conference in Brisbane, Queensland last weekend, delegates resolved to 'recognise the genocides of the Armenians, Hellenes and Assyrians from 1915 to 1923 is one of the greatest crimes against humanity'. …
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Continuing the Seyfo Center series of interviews with scholars of the Assyrian Genocide, Joseph Haweil spoke with Robert M. Kaplan, Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong …
Xori Lahdo, Adiyaman Assyrian Priest – One Cemetery is All We Have Left by Sabri Atman We are in the middle of July. Germany did not see the summer season this year. “When did it ever?” can be asked. It is not like the summer season in Mesopotamia. There is windy weather. It is at a point where people are going to start heating their stoves again. I am in a town in Germany near the border with Holland called …
On behalf of Seyfo Center, Joseph Haweil sat down with Greek historian and researcher Stavros T. Stavridis to talk about the Assyrian Genocide and the worldwide movement for its recognition by the Republic of Turkey. Born to Greek parents in Cairo Egypt in 1949, Mr. Stavridis migrated to Australia with his parents in 1952. He took his BA from Deakin University having majored in political science and economic history. Between 1993-1998, Mr. Stavridis undertook a Masters program at Melbourne …