Jamsheed choksy biography sample

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    Eden Naby and Jamsheed K. Choksy: Is This the End of 2,000 Years of Christianity in the Middle East?

    [Eden Naby is a cultural historian of the Middle East. Jamsheed K. Choksy is professor of Iranian and international studies at Indiana University.]

    Screaming "kill, kill, kill," suicide bombers belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq, a militant organization connected to al Qaeda in Iraq, stormed a Chaldean church in Baghdad on Sunday. A spokesman for the group subsequently claimed they did so "to light the fuse of a campaign against Iraqi Christians." The assailants' more immediate grievance seems related to a demand that two Muslim women, allegedly held against their will in Egyptian Coptic monasteries, be released. When Iraqi government forces attempted to free approximately 120 parishioners who had been taken hostage, the terrorists -- who had already shot dead some of the churchgoers -- detonated their suicide vests and grenades, slaughtering at least half

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    2003. Review: Jamsheed K. Choksy, Evil, Good, and Gender. Facets of the Feminine in Zoroastri­an Religious History. New York, Washington D.C./Baltimore, etc.: Peter Lang, 2002 (Toronto Studies in Religion vol.28): In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 13, 2003, 403-410.

    Reviews of Books 403 a “tentative chronology of Kidarite-Hephthalite political history”. There is also a very extensive bibliography. In “Ancient Afghanistan and its invaders” Nicholas Sims-Williams presents the linguistic evidence for the history of Afghanistan found in the Bactrian documents and inscriptions, giving a very clear summary of what can now be stated with some assurance from the reading of the immensely increased corpus of Bactrian texts of the last ten years. These documents began to appear in the Peshawar bazaar and on the international art market in the 1990s and have been studied by specialists, amongst whom Professor Sims-Williams is a leading expert. He summarises in nine tables some of the li

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    About the author: Jamsheed K. Choksy was born in Mumbai, India on January 8, 1962, and received his initial schooling in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He undertook his undergraduate studies at Columbia University, NY, where in 1985, he received his B.A. in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures with a minor in Biology.  The focus of his Ph.D. work was on history and religions of the Near East and inner Asia. He obtained his doctorate degree from Harvard University in 1991. During the years 1991-1993, he was a visiting Assistant professor in the department of history and the international relations program at Stanford University. From 1993-1994, Jamsheed was a member and a fellow of the national endowment for the humanities at the school of historical studies in the institute for advanced study, Pr