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WORK TITLE: Year of the Sword
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Born 1944, in Al-Hasakah, Syria; married, wife’s name Claire.
EDUCATION:Holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees; University of Lyon, Ph.D.; maître de conférences.
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Educator and writer. Catholic University, Lyon, France, professor, 1975-2011, professor emeritus, 2011–, held the UNESCO chair for Memory, Cultures and Interculturality.
AWARDS:Cross of the Assyrian Church of the East; French Academic Prize, Oeuvre d’Orient, 2016, for Oubliés de tous: Les Assyro-Chaldéens du Caucase.
WRITINGS
Études Interculturelles, editor, 2007-13. Has published hundreds of articles in periodicals and academic journals, including Le Monde, Le Figaro, La Croix, Avvenire, L’Orient-Le Jour, La Libre Belgique, Diogenes (Diogène), Vita e Pensiero, Revue Trimestrielle des Droits de l’Homme, Le Monde Diplomatique, Confluence Méditerranée, and Proche Orient Chrétien. Has contributed chapters to books.
SIDELIGHTS
Joseph Yacoub is emeritus professor of political science at the Catholic University of Lyon, France. He was born in Al-Hasakah (also known as Hassakeh), Syria, and grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. He earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in sociology in Lebanon before moving to Lyon to pursue advanced studies. At the University of Lyon, he attained his doctorate. His thesis, titled “The Assyro-Chaldean Question: The Western Powers and the League of Nations, from 1908-1938,” also earned him the maître de conférences degree, which in France is the highest possible academic degree.
Yacoub spent his academic career teaching political science and international relations at the Catholic University of Lyon, with a research focus on ethnic, religious, cultural, and linguistic minorities; indigenous peoples; human rights; and Christians of the Middle East. Yacoub, who writes primarily in French, has published hundreds of articles in periodicals and academic journals, including Le Monde, Le Figaro, La Croix, Avvenire, L’Orient-Le Jour, La Libre Belgique, Diogenes (Diogène), Vita e Pensiero, Revue Trimestrielle des Droits de l’Homme, Le Monde Diplomatique, Confluence Méditerranée, and Proche Orient Chrétien.
As a child of immigrants—who had fled Iran at the time of World War I and took refuge in Georgia (in the Caucasus) before immigrating to Syria—Yacoub is concerned with stateless peoples. This concern became the subject of much of his writing. Yacoub’s parents escaped what is commonly termed the Assyrian genocide of 1915. This tragedy has been overshadowed by the much more well-known massacre of the Armenians beginning that same year. In a groundbreaking book, The Assyrian Question, Yacoub delves into the history of the persecution of the Assyrians starting at the time of World War I and continuing to the present day. The author researched widely and plumbed various diplomatic and document archives as well as collections of interviews to assemble this history. The genocide was conducted in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq under the auspices of the Ottoman government and the Young Turks, a political reform group working to replace the monarchy with a constitutional government. It constituted a major effort to eliminate Christians and their history from the empire. Upwards of 300,000 Assyrian, Chaldean, and Syriac people were exterminated, and many others were forced to flee.
Once more relying on eyewitness accounts and original source material, Yacoub produced in his latest book, Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide; A History, an authoritative and complete account of the event. He places this massacre in a modern-day context, linking it with the terrorist acts of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (commonly known as ISIS or ISIL). A critic in Publishers Weekly remarked that in his “scholarly, erudite work,” Yacoub “succinctly and irrefutably makes his case.”
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Publishers Weekly, July 25, 2016, review of Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide; A History, p. 58.
Joseph Yacoub
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Honorary (Emeritus) Professor of Political Science at Catholic University of Lyon (France), Joseph Yacoub was born in Syria, in the North-East of the country (Hassaké or Al-Hasakah) in 1944, belonging to Assyrian community. His family moved from Salmas-Urmia, district in Iran (Azerbaijan) and took refuge in Georgia (country of Caucasus area) during the First World War. From Tiflis/Tbilissi his family migrated to Syria which was during this time under French Mandate. His mother tongue is Aramaic (or Syriac) and his first environment language is Arabic.His working language is mostly French.
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Contents
1 Biography
2 Bibliography
2.1 Books
2.2 Articles
2.3 The Assyrian question: publications
3 Footnotes
4 External links
Biography
Following French secondary schools in Lebanon and after completing his course of learning at Lyon’s University (France), where he achieved two Doctorates in the field of contemporary history (the second on Assyro-Chaldean Question[1] between the two World wars: 1908-1938[2]), he has been teaching Political Science and International Relations at Catholic University of Lyon, from July 1975 to October 2011, mainly at the Institute of Human Rights, who is one of the founders.
He was Holder of the UNESCO Chair:”Memory, Cultures and Interculturality” of the mentioned University and Editor-in-chief of its Academic review: “Etudes interculturelles” (Intercultural Studies) from 2007 to 2011.[3] He continues to be member of its orientation committee and its editorial review.
He was granted rewards, amongst them the Cross of the Assyrian Church of the East by His Holiness the late Mar Denkha IV. Since April 2006, his name is mentioned on the Wall Fresco of Lyon’s people as writer.
Specialist on ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic minorities, Indigenous peoples, Human Rights and Christians of Middle East,[4] he is translated into several languages.
Actively involved in the commemoration of the centennial of the Assyrian/Syriac genocide in France,[5] Europe and abroad (Lebanon, Armenia, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, United-States, Canada...), Joseph Yacoub has published his first articles on Assyrian genocide on the beginning of 1984.[6]
He took part to numerous colloquia and international conferences over the world in order to make known Assyrians, to promote understanding among peoples, Intercultural and Interreligious dialogue on international scale.[7] His books are regularly reviewed and submitted to analysis.[8]
Bibliography
Books
The Assyrian Question, Alpha Graphic, Chicago, 1986, republished with additional elements in 2003, translated into Arabic and Turkish.
Les minorités. Quelle protection? Editions Desclée de Brouwer (DDB),[9] Paris, 1995.
Babylone chrétienne. Géopolitique de l'Eglise de Mésopotamie,Editions Desclée de Brouwer (DDB), Paris, 1996.
Réécrire la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, Editions Desclée de Brouwer (DDB), Paris, 1998; published and updated in 2008.
Les minorités dans le monde. Faits et analyses, Editions Desclée de Brouwer (DDB), Paris, 1998.
Au-delà des minorités. Une alternative à la prolifération des Etats, Ed. de l'Atelier,[10] Paris, 2000, translated into Arabic.
Au nom de Dieu ! Les guerres de religion d’aujourd’hui et de demain, Editions Jean Claude Lattès, février 2002, Paris, translated into Czech.
Menaces sur les chrétiens d’Irak, Editions CLD, Chambray-lès-Tours, mars 2003 ; translated into Italian : I Cristiani d’Iraq, Ed. Jaca Book,[11] Milano, 2006.
A l'épreuve des civilisations et des cultures, repenser les droits de l'homme. Une approche critique, in: L'Odyssée des droits de l'homme, t.III, "Enjeux et perspectives des droits de l'homme", J. Ferrand et H. Petit (Eds.), L'Harmattan, Paris, 2003, p. 183-200.
Les droits de l’homme sont-ils exportables ? Géopolitique d’un universalisme, Editions Ellipses,[12] Paris, 2004.
Minorities and religions in Europe. Case-study: The Assyro-Chaldeans of Turkey, 2006, in European Yearbook of Minority issues, European Center of Minority issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Allemagne, vol. 4, 2004/5, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, p. 29-49.
Le minoranze cristiane in Siria, Siria dalle Antiche citta-stato alla primavera interrotta di Damasco, A cura di Mattia Guidetti, Ed. Jaca Book, 2006, Milano, p. 155-164.
La démocratie occidentale est-elle transposable ? Démocratie et fondamentalisme religieux dans les pays arabes, Annuaire international des droits de l’homme, vol. II, 2007, Editions Bruylant and Sakkoulas, p. 297-326.
Fièvre démocratique et ferveur fondamentaliste. Dominantes du XXIè siècle, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 2008.
La dignité dans la pensée mésopotamienne et ses implications en Irak aujourd’hui, in La dignité humaine. Perspectives transculturelles, Jacques Poulain, Hans Jörg Sandkühler, Fathi Triki, Philosophie et transculturalité, vol. 7, Peter Lang, 2009, Frankfurt am Main, p. 63-98.
L’Humanisme réinventé, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 2012.
Diversité culturelle et universalité des droits de l’homme, in : Les droits de l’homme. Défis et mutations, ouvrage collectif, edited by André S. Dizdarevic et Roger Koussetogue Koudé, L’Harmattan, 2013, Paris, p. 19-34.
La reconnaissance internationale de la diversité culturelle et des minorités. Leur statut dans le monde arabe, in : Minorities in Iraq. Memory, identity and challenges, edited by Sa’ad Salloum, Masarat for cultural and Media development, Bagdad-Beyrouth, 2013, (in French, Arabic and English languages).
Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Arab World, edited by Will Kymlicka and Eva Pföstl, communication entitled : « How does the Arab World perceive Multiculturalism and treat its minorities ? The Assyro-Chaldeans of Iraq as a case study », Oxford University Press (OUP), Oxford, 2014, p. 250-277.
Qui s’en souviendra ? 1915 : le génocide assyro-chaldéen-syriaque, Editions du Cerf, Paris, octobre 2014.
Oubliés de tous. Les Assyro-Chaldéens du Caucase. with his wife Claire Weibel Yacoub, Editions du Cerf, Paris, 2015, Academic Price of Oeuvre d'Orient, 2016.
Year of the Sword. The Assyrian Christian Genocide. A History, (Qui s'en souviendra? 1915: le génocide assyro-chaldéen-syriaque) translated by James Ferguson from French into English, Hurst Publishers, London, August 2016.
Articles
Joseph Yacoub published several hundreds articles in worldwide newspapers (Le Monde, Le Figaro, La Croix, (French daily newspapers)...,[13] Avvenire (Italian daily newspaper), L’Orient-Le Jour (Lebanese daily newspaper), la Libre Belgique (Belgian daily newspaper), Le Devoir (Newspaper, Quebec, Canada), Al-Hayat, Al-Quds Al-Arabi...
He produced contributions in Academic reviews, among them : Diogenes (Diogène),[14]Vita e Pensiero,[15] Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme (RTDH),[16] le Monde diplomatique, Confluence Méditerranée,[17] Proche Orient Chrétien (POC),[18] Les Annales de l'autre Islam ...
The Assyrian question: publications
Les Réfugiés assyro-chaldéens de Turquie, CEDRI, Forcalquier, 1986.
The Assyrian Question, Alpha Graphic, Chicago, 1986.
Les Assyro-Chaldéens d’aujourd’hui, in: L’Afrique et l‘Asie modernes, CHEAM, Paris, 1986-1987, p. 28-44.
Les Assyro-Chaldéens. Un peuple oublié de l’histoire, Groupement pour les droits des minorités (GDM), Paris, 1987.
La question assyro-chaldéenne, les Puissances européennes et la Société des Nations, in: Guerres mondiales et conflits contemporains,Revue trimestrielle d'histoire, PUF, n° 151, Paris, 1988, p. 103-120.
Diasporas et Développement, in: Histoires de développement (revue), Catholic University of Lyon, n° 6, juin 1989.
Les Assyro-Chaldéens, une minorité en voie d'émergence?, Centre québécois de relations internationales, Canada, Québec, Université Laval, juin 1990, p. 341-373.
Les Assyro-Chaldéens, translated into Japonese language in: Minorities in the World and the legal system, Buraku Liberation Research Institute, Osaka, 1991, p. 226-246.
Les Assyro-Chaldéens, une minorité dispersée, in: Hommes et Migrations, numéro spécial consacré au sujet « Minorités au Proche-Orient », janvier-février 1994, Paris, p. 37-41.
De Babylone à Paris : la diaspora assyro-chaldéenne, in L’Espace géographique, numéro consacré aux diasporas, Michel Bruneau coordinateur, Doin éditeurs - Paris, Reclus-Montpellier, tome XXIII, n° 1, 1994, p. 29-37.
Les Assyro-Chaldéens originaires de Turquie : une communauté en situation migratoire, in Les Annales de l’autre Islam, INALCO-ERISM, 1995, n° 3, Paris, p. 451-466.
Minorities and religions in Europe. Case-study: The Assyro-Chaldeans of Turkey, in: European Yearbook of Minority issues, European Center of Minority issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Allemagne, vol. 4, 2004/5, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Participation to the documentary film realized and produced by Robert Alaux, "The Last Assyrians", Paris, Lieurac production, 2005.
Les Assyro-Chaldéens du Caucase. Une trajectoire migratoire méconnue, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon, 5 December 2014.
Participation to the documentary film produced by Robert Alaux and Nahro Beth-Kinné, Seyfo l'élimination. Centenaire d'un génocide 1915-2015.
La diaspora assyro-chaldéenne. Entre identité et intégration, in : La vocation des Chrétiens d’Orient. Défis actuels et enjeux d’avenir dans leurs rapports à l’Islam, Ed. Karthala, Paris, 2015, p. 189-206.
Les chrétiens d’Orient en France. Capacité d’adaptation et attachement à leur identité. Etude de cas : Les Assyro-Chaldéens de France, in: L'unité des chrétiens. Pourquoi? Pour qui? sous la direction de Michel Mallèvre, Editions du Cerf, Paris, April 2016, p. 55-75.
Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, a History
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Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, a History
Joseph Yacoub, trans. from the French by James Ferguson. Oxford Univ., $34.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-19-063346-2
The 1915 genocide of the Assyrians has often been overshadowed by that of the Armenians, but Yacoub, an emeritus professor of political science at Catholic University of Lyon, France, brings it back into the light and exposes Turkey's multi-pronged effort to erase millennia of Christian history from its territory. Yacoub, whose ancestors faced death and banishment at the hands of the Turks, connects the genocide with the 21st-century horror of ISIS and a period of renewed uncertainty and danger for Christians across the Middle East. In a scholarly, erudite work that draws liberally from primary sources in a plethora of languages, Yacoub demonstrates that "sufficient evidence has been presented to conclude that the events of 1915 constitute a genocide." His argument is correct, though it is not the facts that are in dispute so much as a public apathy that has allowed the Assyrians to slip into the mist of history. Of the current moment, Yacoub notes "that a people as suffering and oppressed as the Assyrians should be fully integrated into the conscience of humanity and justice finally handed to them." Yacoub succinctly and irrefutably makes his case, but the success of his mission is far from assured. (Oct.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Year of the Sword: The Assyrian Christian Genocide, a History." Publishers Weekly, 25 July 2016, p. 58. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA460285516&it=r&asid=1b5a493081d547468de367d9d60af294. Accessed 24 Mar. 2017.
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