Assyrian Genocide

Hannibal Travis publishes work and teaches classes at Florida International University relating to international law, Internet law, and intellectual property. He has also served as Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1999, where he served as a teaching assistant in Harvard College. He has published widely on genocide studies and human rights law, including Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan (2010); "Genocide in Sudan: The Role of Oil Exploration and the Entitlement of the Victims to Reparations," in The Top Ten Global Justice Law Review Articles 2008 (Amos Guiora ed., 2009), 107–162; "On the Original Understanding of the Crime of Genocide," Genocide Studies and Prevention 7 (2012): 30–55; "Did the Armenian Genocide Inspire Hitler?" Middle East Quarterly 20, no. 1, Winter 2013, pp. 27–35; and "Why Was Benghazi 'Saved,' But Sinjar Allowed to Be Lost?: New Failures of Genocide Prevention, 2007–2015," Genocide Studies International 10, no. 2 (2017), https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/690.

• List of figures and tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsGlossaryList of judicial decisions citedTable of legislation1. The Assyrian genocide across history: collective memory, legal theory, and power politicsHannibal Travis2. The term Seyfo in historical perspective Michael Abdalla3. The atrocities against the Assyrians in 1915: a legal perspectiveSara Demir 4. The Ottoman genocide of the Assyrians in PersiaAnahit Khosroeva5. Abduction, rape and genocide: Urmia’s Assyrian girls and womenEden Naby6. Genocide/Seyfo – and how resistance became a way of lifeSait Çetinoğlu (Abdulmesih BarAbraham, trans.)7. Lady Surma: the pillar of the Assyrian nation, 1883–1975Stavros Stavridis8. The Assyrian delegation in the Paris Peace ConferenceRacho Donef9. The Assyrian "concept of unity" after SeyfoAryo Makko10. Exile or extinction: the Assyrian genocide from 1915 to 2015Hannibal Travis11. Epilogue: tombstones and inverted crossesNineb LamassuIndex

"One of the fortuitous aspects of the development of comparative genocide studies has been attention to a number of cases of genocide and genocidal massacres that previously were not included in a manner commensurate with the crime. For example, after a century the genocide of the numerically small Herero people has finally entered the consciousness of many scholars and students. The same is happening with the Assyrian genocide, recognition of which I have personally advocated for a long time. Each genocide is different, however, and care should be taken as there are pitfalls in attempting to equate one with the other in every way. For decades, the Assyrian genocide, like the Armenian genocide, had become a 'forgotten genocide.' Armenian activists and scholars martialed their resources relatively early to gradually eliminate the adjective 'forgotten.' Assyrians and Greeks tarried, in part because they themselves did not pay sufficient heed to the challenge. It is gratifying that this has changed in recent decades and the fact that both Assyrians and non-Assyrians authors are contributors to The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies is strong testimony to that fact."Richard G. Hovannisian, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, President’s Fellow, Chapman University, and Scholarly Advisor, Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California.