Joseph Yacoub is Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Lyon and the author of several books on minorities and Christians in the Middle East.
"Yacoub's work is essential reading and sheds light on a dark
chapter of twentieth century Middle Eastern history that has been
deliberately silenced." - Vicken Cheterian, Webster University,
Geneva, author of Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of
Genocide"This book is intended for multiple audiences: the
survivors of the communities themselves, as an account by a
descendant of victims; academics, journalists and others dealing
with the Middle East; and a wider public interested in Middle
Eastern Christians. The diaspora communities include well over half
a million people, so this alone is a very substantial audience. ...
I think it is definitely an original contribution. To the best of
my knowledge the literature on the massacres and persecution
suffered by these communities is very limited, certainly compared
with the Armenian dimension" - William Harris, Professor,
Department of Politics, University of Otago, author of Lebanon: A
History, 600-2011"This important and revelatory book tells of the
biblical race which has suffered genocide twice within a century:
over half were destroyed by the Ottoman atrocities of 1915, and now
their descendants in Mosul and elsewhere are being put to the sword
by ISIS. The Assyrians today deserve more than our pity - they need
our protection." -- Geoffrey Robertson QC, human rights barrister,
Doughty Street Chambers, and author of An Inconvenient Genocide
"Meticulous and moving, Year of the Sword documents the forgotten
horrors that befell the Syriac-speaking Christians of the Ottoman
Empire. This is a book for all times, but especially our own, when
the Middle East's distinctive ethno-religious diversity is again
under the threat from violence and forced migration. Readers will
be sobered and better informed thanks to Yacoub's efforts."
--Christian Sahner, Research Fellow in History, St. John's College,
University of Cambridge, and author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past
and Present
"[An] important contribution to genocide studies."--Middle East
Quarterly"A significant and welcome contribution to the field of
genocide studies . . . Yacoub's book establishes a very strong
foundation to the academic study of the Assyrian Genocide in
English."--Review of Middle East Studies
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