Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- alessandra.cecolin@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272348
- Office Address
CA205 King's College
- School/Department
- School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Biography
Education:
PhD Iranian-Jewish Identity Sept. 2006-June 2013
Dept. of Languages and Culture of Near and Middle East, SOAS, London, UK.
MA Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic Sept. 2005-Sept. 2006
Dept. of Languages and Culture of Near and Middle East, SOAS, London, UK.
BA Letters and Philosophy Sept.2001-June 2005
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Academic roles:
Adjunct Professor Sept. 2015 -June 2017
Dept. of History, Syracuse University London Campus, New York
Lecturer Sept. 2009- August 2017
Dept. of History, Goldsmiths, London UK
Teaching assistant Sept. 2008-June 2009
Dept. of Study of Religions, SOAS, London, UK.
- Research
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Research Overview
Political history and diplomatic strategies that characterized sixty-year relationship between Iran and Israel; wider conflict between national and religious identity for Jewish minorities living in Middle East; Islamic and Judaic shared history in Middle East, history of political Zionism; absorption of Middle Eastern Jewish minorities in Israel.
Current Research
™History of relations between Egypt and Iran between 1950 when the Shah recognized Israel until Yom Kippur War 1973; ™Iranian and Egyptian interests in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; - Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
HI1027: Making History
SX1017: Global Issues, Global Religions
DR352S: Religious Minorities in the Middle East
- Publications
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The power of silence: rethinking Iranian Jews’ power relations during the Qajar dynasty
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 22-39Contributions to Journals: ArticlesApproaches to History
Bloomsbury (Text).Other Contributions: Other Contributions- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9876543210999.005
Review of Lior B. Sternfeld, Between Iran and Zion: Jewish histories of twentieth Century Iran. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp.208
International journal of Middle East Studies , vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 718-720Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743821000921
Iranian Jewish Aliyah in 1951: An Historical Analysis of Iranian Jewish Emigration to Israel
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 221-236Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sena.12280
Iranian Jews in Israel: Between Persian Cultural Identity and Israeli Nationalism
I.B. Tauris, London. 182 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksReview: Jewish Identities in Iran. Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha’i Faith
Intertwined WorldsContributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles