October 12, 08 

 2008 at 5:00 pm

At the Assyrian American Association of Southern California

5901 Cahuenga Blvd., North Hollywood Ca, 91601

A seminar by  Dr. Eden Naby

Contributing Editor - Encyclopedia Iranica
 

Titled  

  Assyrians and Armenians of Urmiah, Iran
on the eve of WWI.

Dr. Naby's research about the period of World War I in Iran has led to an interest in inter-ethnic relations at the start of the 20th century in the
mixed religious and multi-ethnic town of Urmiah, and its fertile and
well-populated villages. The relationship of Assyrians and Armenians is particularly interesting in light of the genocide limited to Western in Azarbaijan that has led to the displacement of these two Christian groups with Kurds and Turks, particularly in the villages of the Urmiah plain.  Using rarely consulted official statistical materials from Iran and other records, Dr. Nabywill reconstruct the pre-WWI Christian presence and the reasons why the WWI genocide came to be limited to this particular portion of Iran.