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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Mother of the Nation? The Digital Appropriation of Shanidar Z in Kurdish and Regional Identity Politics

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how the reconstruction of Shanidar Z, a 75,000‐year‐old Neanderthal woman discovered in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, became a focal point for digital negotiations of identity, ancestry, and belonging. Drawing on 51 Facebook and YouTube posts and 17,126 associated comments in Kurdish, Arabic and English, the study ...
Dana Sofi
wiley   +1 more source

Family album

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Family Album follows a young university student assisting a journalist in documenting a glass workers' strike in Istanbul's Paşabahçe neighborhood during the summer of 1999. Immersed in the atmosphere of solidarity and collective struggle, she accompanies the journalist to interview Murat, a key strike organizer, in his shanty house ...
Deniz Yonucu
wiley   +1 more source

Tabal Ülkesi’nin Politik ve İdarî Yapısı

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2010
Hitit İmparatorluğu’nun yıkılmasısonucu ortaya çıkan şehir devletleri içerisinde en batıda yer alanıTabal idi. Asur kaynaklarıve hiyeroglif yazıtların dağılım sahalarından hareketle, ülkenin coğrafî sınırlarının doğuda Malatya ve Gürün’den, batıda Tuz ...
Mehmet Kurt
doaj  

Greek Commodities in Phoenicia: An Interdisciplinary Study of Imported Amphorae From Tell el‐Burak (Lebanon)

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 395-408, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transport amphorae of Greek/Aegean types from the 7th–4th c. BCE imported to the Phoenician coastal settlement of Tell el‐Burak, Lebanon. We present a selection of 58 pieces analyzed by typological, chemical (NAA), and petrographic approaches.
Maximilian Rönnberg   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Küüditamispoliitika kui muistne tava Uus-Assüüria impeeriumis 9.-7. sajandini eKr [PDF]

open access: yesMäetagused, 2010
The current paper focuses on the complicated issue of a very widespread political method, deportation, in the Neo-Assyrian Empire since the middle of the 9th century up until 612 BC.
Vladimir Sazonov
doaj  

Ethnic‐racial identity in Sweden: Dimensionality, measurement invariance, and psychosocial adjustment

open access: yesJournal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract This study examines ethnic‐racial identity (ERI) among majority and minority adolescents in Sweden, focusing on the dimensionality and measurement invariance of ERI subscales, and how the ERI dimensions across these subscales relate to psychosocial adjustment. Using data from 665 Swedish adolescents, we assessed the structure and invariance of
Tommy Reinholdsson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of Assyrians’ Language Use in Istanbul

open access: yesDarnioji daugiakalbystė, 2017
Being one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East, Assyrians have continued to live in various parts of Turkey for thousands of years. Today, the estimates related to the number of Assyrians living in Turkey vary between 4,000–25,000 while
Arikan Arda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stateless Rhythms, Transnational Steps: Embodying the Assyrian Nation through Sheikhani Song and Dance

open access: yesRevue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2019
Interrogating the close connection between expressive culture and ethnic identity, this article examines the practice and polysemy of the traditional Assyrian line dance and song genre sheikhani in the performance context of a community twice made ...
Nadia Younan
doaj   +1 more source

Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 206-227, Summer 2026.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
wiley   +1 more source

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