Shawqi Talia (Ph.D., The Catholic University of America)

Instructor

Principal areas of interest: Arabic and Islamic studies; Neo-Aramaic; Garshuni texts; simultaneous interpretation (Arabic-English)

Selected Publications:
Currently revising for publication his English translation of the Arabic Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John by Coptic theologian Bûlus al-Bûši.

Articles
“From Edessa to Urmia:  Christianity in Iran,” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies  7/2 (Autumn/Winter 2005): 37-68. http://www.riifs.org/abstracts/Abstractsvo7n2.htm#Shawqi_Talia_
 “Socio-cultural History of Some Dorekyatha from Northern Iraq.” Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the ARAM Twenty Third International Conference: Modern Syriac Literature to be published in ARAM Periodical.http://www.aramsociety.org/pastconferences.htm
“Lamentation in the Neo-Aramaic Durekyata of the Chaldean Catholic Community in the Plains of Nineveh.” Forthcoming in Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies http://syrcom.cua.edu/Hugoye/ .
“Zumarta d-Piskhutha (Poem of Joy): Neo-Aramaic Poem.” To appear in a volume of the monographic series CUA Studies in Early Christianity. 

Contributions to Reference Works
The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, ed. Daniel Patte (forthcoming): Addai and Mari, Liturgy of; Chaldean Syrian Church of the East; Iran, Christianity in; Iraq, Christianity in.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/CDC/