Core Team Research
Explore the Nahrein Network's Core Team’s research projects and list of publications.
Core Team Research Projects
Cultural Heritage Organisation
Dr Rozhen Mohammed-Amin, lecturer and researcher at the Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies & Scientific Research (KISSR) and co-founder and president of the Cultural Heritage Organization (CHO), continues her team's groundbreaking research on the roles of digital technologies in enhancing the emotional impact of heritage.
The Kish project: reparative history and knowledge repatriation
Professor Eleanor Robson, Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at UCL, collaborates with The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus and UCL's Research Software Development Group to develop Arabic-language tools for online, open-access publication, research and education on the cuneiform cultures of ancient Iraq and its neighbours.
Core Team Publications
Professor Eleanor Robson
2023: Robson, E., ‘The archive’, in Jane Moon (ed.), Tell Khaiber: A Fortified Centre of the First Sealand Dynasty (Archaeology of Ancient Iraq 2), Ludlow: Moonrise Press, pp 65–122, plus open-access online edition, translations and glossaries of 145 cuneiform tablets.
2022: Kathem, M., E. Robson and L. Tahan, Cultural Heritage Predation in Iraq: The Sectarian Appropriation of Iraq’s Past, Chatham House Iraq Initiative research paper, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Arabic translation 2022.
2019: Robson, E. Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship. UCL Press (open access).
Dr Mehiyar Kathem
2024: Kathem, M. ‘Cultural heritage and symbolic power in Iraq’s protest movement’, in Laurajane Smith et al. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Heritage, 84-94.
2023: Kathem, M. ‘Heritage predation and the pursuit of politics’, in J. A. González Zarandona, E. Cunliffe, and M. Saldin (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Heritage Destruction, 185–195.
2022: Kathem, M., E. Robson and L. Tahan, Cultural Heritage Predation in Iraq: The Sectarian Appropriation of Iraq’s Past, Chatham House Iraq Initiative research paper, Royal Institute of International Affairs. Arabic translation 2022.
2021: Kathem, M. and Kareem Ali, D. Decolonising Babylon. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27(9), 831–845.
2020: Kathem, M. Cultural (dis)continuity, political trajectories and the state in post – 2003 Iraq. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26(2), 163–177.
2018: Kathem, M. Heritage peacebuilding in Iraq. openDemocracy.
Dr Rozhen Mohammed-Amin
2022: Alizadeh, H., Bork-Hüffer, T., Kohlbacher, J., Mohammed-Amin, R. K., & Naimi, K. The contribution of urban public space to the social interactions and empowerment of women. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-24.
2022: Mohammed-Amin, R. K., Radha, R. A., Ibrahim, N. H., & Raouf, T. L., Extending the Realities of Genocide Memorialization. In Proceedings of the International Conference of Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention.
2022: Guenat, S., Purnell, P., Davies, Z. G., Nawrath, M., Stringer, L. C., Babu, G. R., Dallimer, M., … & Mohammed-Amin, R. Meeting sustainable development goals via robotics and autonomous systems. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-10.
2022: Mohammed-Amin, R. K., New Realities for New Museum Experiences: Virtual and Augmented Realities for Difficult Heritage in Iraq. In T. Stylianou-Lambert, A. Heraclidou & A. Bounia (Eds.), Museum Media(ting): Emerging Technologies and Difficult Heritage. New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
Dr Paul Collins
Collins, P. ‘The Ur excavations in context: Empire, war, museums and race’, in N. Postgate, ed., Ur 1922-2022 (BISI, forthcoming).
2021: Collins, P. The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations. Reaktion Books.
2018. Collins, P. Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East. A view from the Ashmolean and the British Museum. Museums and the Ancient Middle East.