Mehrdad Izady
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Michael Mehrdad R.S.C. Izady or Michael Izady (born 1963), is a contemporary writer on ethnic and cultural topics, particularly the Greater Middle East, and Kurds.
Early life and education
Izady was born to a
Kurdish father and a Belgian mother, and spent much of his youth in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Korea, as his diplomat parents moved from one assignment to another. He received his BA degree in history, political science and geography from the University of Kansas, and then attended Syracuse University, where he received two master's degrees in remote sensing-cartography and in international relations. He received his PhD at the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Columbia University
in 1992.
Career
Izady taught for six years in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at
US military, diplomatic corps and the NATO. Since 1997, he has also been a Master Adjunct professor at the Joint Special Operations University
, Florida.
Izady is also an ethnographer who has produced work on ethno-cultural topics of the
Gulf 2000 Project web site.[3]
Criticism
The Kurdologist and Iranologist Garnik Asatrian, narrating about pseudo-history in Kurdology, refers to Izady's 1992 The Kurds: A Concise Handbook as "phantasmagoric".[4]
The Iranologist
Yazdanism” is a fabrication of contemporary Kurdish scholar Mehrdad Izady".[5]
Books
- The Kurds: A Concise Handbook, Taylor & Francis Publishers, pp. 268, 1992. ISBN 0-8448-1727-9
- The Sharafnâma, or, the History of the Kurdish Nation, 1597, By Sharaf al-Din Bitlisi, translated into English and annotated by M. Izady, Mazda Publishers, pp. 302, 2005. ISBN 1-56859-074-1
- Guidebook to Iraq. pp. 243, US military, 2005–present, 19th edition.
- Guidebook to Afghanistan. pp. 219, US military, 2005–present, 21st edition.
- Guidebook to the Balkans. pp. 244, US military, 2007–present, 21st edition.
- Atlas of the Islamic World and Vicinity, Columbia University, 2006–Present (an ongoing project)
Book chapters
- "Between Iraq and a Hard Place: The Kurdish Predicament", pp. 71–99 in Iran, Iraq and the Legacies of War, Edited by Lawrence G. Potter, Gary G. Sick, Pekgrave Macmillan, pp. 224, 2006. ISBN 1-4039-7609-0
- "Kurds", Encyclopedia of the Developing World, Routledge Publishers, pp. 1759, 2006. ISBN 1-57958-388-1
- "Kurds and the Formation of the State of Iraq, 1917–1932", pp. 95–109, in The Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921, Edited by Reeva S. Simon, Eleanor Harvey Tejirian, Columbia University Press, pp. 181, 2004. ISBN 0-231-13292-1
- "Gulf and Indian Ocean Basin Ethnic Diversity: An Evolutionary History" in Security in the Persian Gulf: Origins, Obstacles and the Search for Consensus, Edited by G. Sick and L. Potter, Palgrave Press, pp. 284, 2002. ISBN 0-312-23950-5.
- "The Geopolitical Realities of Kurdistan vs. Hopes for a New World Order" in Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order, Edited by ISBN 1-56656-112-4
- "The Kurdish Demographic Revolution and Its Socio-Political Implications" in Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East, Edited by Ole Høiris, Sefa Martin Yürükel, Aarhus University Press, pp. 562, 1997. ISBN 87-7288-691-9
- "E uno plurium?: A Projection on the Future of the National Minorities and their Identity in the 21st-Century" in The Transnationalization of Ethnicity and World Politics, Edited by J. Cole and E. Skinner, Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center, Howard University, 1995.
Notes
- ^ R.S. Simon, E. H. Tejirian, The Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921, p. 171
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
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