Eastern Christian Books

For a lecture I was to give in Europe in June (now postponed until next year for obvious reasons), I was asked to focus on the role of traum...

One of the things research into trauma has uncovered is the multi-generational nature of the suffering, and the fact that at least to the th...

With the tender ministrations of Turkey in other countries and against other ethnic groups again in global headlines, this book, released ju...

Every semester when we talk about the Armenian (and Assyrian and Greek) genocide of 1915, my students are first fascinated and then appalled...

In 2015 I gave several lectures on the centenary of the genocidal massacres of Eastern Christians at Ottoman hands. The best-known of these ...

I recently noted yet another publication devoted to the long-term psychological effects of the Armenian Genocide. And then Herder and Herde...

To my mind one of the most important and far-reaching insights Freud first helped us to understand, and many analysts --as well as other ps...

Almost five years ago now, I noted that we were gearing up for the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, which was already in 2013 oc...

Over the last three years, as I have been reading (and re-reading) in a lot of the literature around historical memory, and the psychoanalys...

Every November, in teaching my course on Eastern Christian encounters with Islam, we come to the dolorous history of Armenia, including of c...

I noted its appearance in 2013, but only recently had a chance to read it myself. It is an odd book in some ways, reflecting an odd life too...

I've just had a chance to finish Eugene Rogan's splendid study, The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East   (Basic...

Pope Francis was recently in Armenia , and as John Allen's article argues, the "politics of memory," on which I have been comm...

As I noted last year and the year before, 2015 marks the centenary of the Armenian genocide, about which studies continue to pour forth from...

We live, as oft noted recently, in the centenary year of the Armenian Genocide. Many books have appeared in English over the last two decade...

This year, as I have often remarked on here for some time now, marks the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. Next month we will see a schol...

I recently discussed the Armenian Genocide in my class on Eastern Christian encounters with Islam. And lo and behold the very next week Pope...

Last month, on Remembrance Day, I gave a lecture on the several massacres of Eastern Christians during the First World War. The Armenian gen...

In this centenary year of the outbreak of the Great War, I'm giving a lecture on Remembrance Day in November on massacres of Eastern Chr...

Last summer, I noted even then the forthcoming flood of books on the centenary of the Great War, which we will observe this August. I have s...