Scholarly Works - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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Kalila and Dimna as a case study: Ibn al-Muqaffa''s and Nasrullah Munshi's translations
The Book of Kalīla and Dimna (henceforth KD) holds an iconic place in the history of Arabic translations. Its endurance through many centuries, its adoption in many cultural environments and its complex story of propagation ... -
The Death Throes of Indigenous Christians in the Middle East: Assyrians Living Under the Islamic State
(BRILL, 2017-11)Christianity emerged in the Middle East, became a majority religion, and thereafter expanded into various geographical directions. Although the faith suffered a decline under Arab Muslim rule already in the eleventh century, ... -
What Could Not Be Written: A Study of the Oral Transmission of Sayfo Genocide Memory Among Assyrians
(University of Toronto Press, 2016-10)This article discusses the ways in which eyewitness accounts about the Assyrian Genocide have been transmitted in writing and orally, reconstructed across generations, and how these accounts have been expressed in lamentations, ... -
Between Egypt and Yemen in the Cairo Genizah
(Brill, 2014-10-28)A study of two documents from the Cairo Genizah, a vast repository of medieval Jewish writings recovered from a synagogue in Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, one hundred years ago, shows the importance of this archive for the history of ...
