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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present
Eden Naby
Independent Scholar
This talk is one of the events related to the exhibit now on view at CMES: Assyrians from Persia (Iran)to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home.
A cultural historian of the Middle East and Central Asia, Eden Naby began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan and moved on to a Columbia University PhD that led eventually to her application of ethnic and religious minority studies principles to the study of Assyrians in the Middle East. She and her late husband, Richard Nelson Fry, initiated Assyrian endowments at several universities that have helped to shape holdings on modern Assyrians at Harvard, Columbia, and Berkeley. Among her many articles on Assyrians are the key introduction to Assyrians in the former Soviet Union (1975), the use of the pre-WWI Assyrian periodical press to analyze Assyrian cultural progress (1977, 2006), her work at the Foundation for Endangered Languages and the Encyclopedia Iranica. She established the family charity, Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture.
Contact: Liz Flanagan