The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> Sargon Donabed....

Sargon Donabed....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, May 16 2013, 18:57:44 (UTC)
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Sargon Donabed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
B.A. Stonehill College, M.A., Ph.D. University of Toronto
Contact Information
x5380
sdonabed@rwu.edu
GHH 216
Areas of Expertise:
Assyrian History; History of the Modern Middle East; Minorities in the Middle East; and Religion in America

Sargon George Donabed is Assistant Professor of History at Roger Williams University where he teaches Middle Eastern history and religious studies. Dr. Donabed completed his PhD at the department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto in 2010. He serves on the advisory board of the journal Chronos, published by the University of Balamand in Lebanon as well as the Institute for Genocide Awareness and Applied Research (IGAAR) and the Modern Assyrian Research Archive (MARA). He is the co-organizer of the biannual Roger Williams University Conference on Religion and the State. He is a 2010 The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) fellow based on the project Documenting the Oral Folk Epic of Qatine Gabbara: Translation, Historical and Cultural Analysis, and Transmission. Donabed is also co-editor of Religion and the State:Europe and North America in the 17th and 18th centuries (Lexington Books, 2012) and also co-editor and contributor to The Assyrian Heritage: Threads of Continuity and Influence (Uppsala University, 2012). His work takes him around the world regularly and has researched and presented at conferences most frequently in Europe and the Middle East. He is also an active member of a variety of conservation-based NGOs and has strong interest in fantasy and science fiction film and literature and wildlife/environmental conservation.


...the guy is definitely an improvement over the typical kinds we're given...however, the fact that he is involved with religion as well makes the whole thing doubtful...because his kind of assyrian believes that assyrians were the first Christians and all converted etc.

...I'm going to order this book and read it very carefully....I don't expect toto to read anything, certainly not Joseph's book...why should he? He already "just knows".



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