4 March 2025, at 14:30, at the Virtual Hall of the Matenadaran there will be held a lecture entitled “Hearts like our Hearts”: Armenian and Assyrian Cooperation and Cohabitation in Iran’s Urmia Region.
Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeloo, is an independent scholar and researcher, based at Ankawa, Iraq. He holds a PhD in Syriac Studies, BA in Semitic Languages from Sydney University, as well as an MA in Syriac Christianity from Leiden University. Previously, he has taught Classical Syriac at Sydney University and the University of Melbourne. He is currently the English-language editor of Banipal, the quarterly publication of the General Directorate for Syriac Culture and Arts in the northern region of Iraq, in addition to engaging in other ongoing research projects.
Language: English. Duration: 45 minutes, additional 25 minutes for the Q&A session. Convener: Dr. Anna Ohanjanyan, the Head of the Department for the Study of the Armenian Texts of the 15th-19th Centuries at Matenadaran.