Monographs & edited volumes
(2025) (ed) Labour of Love. Text and Tradition in Contemporary Transnational Oriental Orthodoxy (Radboud University Press Nijmegen); ISBN: 978 94 6515 163 2; DOI: 10.54195/utqa4903.
(2020) with Karène Sanchez, Tijmen C. Baarda (eds), Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious Minorities and their Languages in the Emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950). Edited by (Brill, series Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies; Leiden) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423220
(2016) with Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (eds) (2016), Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society 4, Leiden: Brill; Open Access; DOI: 10.1163/9789004323285).
(2015) Scribes and Scriptures: The Church of the East in the Eastern Ottoman Provinces (1500-1850) (Eastern Christian Studies 21; Louvain: Peeters)
(2006) (ed.) New Faith in Ancient Lands. Western Missions in the Middle East in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Studies in Christian Missions 32; Leiden: Brill).
(2005) with J.J. van Ginkel and T.M. van Lint (eds), Redefining Christian Identity. Cultural Interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam (OCA 134, Louvain: Peeters).
(1999) From a Spoken to a Written Language. The Introduction and Development of Literary Urmia Aramaic in the Nineteenth Century (Publication of the “De Goeje Fund” no. XXVIII, Leiden; based on Ph.D Leiden, 1995).
Recent articles
(2025) “Labour of Love: Introductory Notes on Religion, Books, and Learning.” In Murre-van den Berg (ed), Text and Tradition in Contemporary Transnational Oriental Orthodoxy (Radboud University Press, Nijmegen) 13-38; DOI 10.54195/UTQA 4903_CH01.
(2025) “Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Contemporary Oriental Orthodox Textual Traditions in Europe.” In Murre-van den Berg (ed), Text and Tradition in Contemporary Transnational Oriental Orthodoxy (Radboud University Press, Nijmegen) 231-259; DOI 10.54195/UTQA 4903_CH10.
(2024) “ʿAbdīshōʿ bar Brīkhā and the (re)Making of the Church of the East in Ottoman Times.” In Christianity, Islam, and the Syriac Renaissance: The Impact of ʿAbdīshōʿ bar Brīkhā. Papers Collected on His 700th Anniversary (1318-2018). Edited by Salam Rassi and Željko Paša, in Orientalia Christiana Analecta (OCA) 316; Rome 2024 – Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 213-232. ISBN: 978-88-7210-411-8.
(2023) “The Church of the East, Catholicism and Literary Culture in the Eastern Ottoman Provinces (1500-1800).” In Livres et confessions chrétiennes orientales. Une histoire connectée entre l’Empire ottoman, le monde slave et l’Occident (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles). Edited by Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, Vassa Kontouma, 99-124. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023 [Bibliothèque de l’école des hautes études sciences religieuses, vol. 197] ISBN 978-2-503-60440-4.
(2022) “Voice of the East: The Transnational Messenger of the Assyrian Church of the East’, in Diaspore nel vicino oriente. Melodie Ebraiche in Benedetto Marcello Edited by Mirella Cassarino, Lydia Cevidalli, Rosa Bianca Finazzi, Claudia Milani, Marco Moriggi. ISBN 978-88-6894-671-5. Milan: Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 59-89
(2022) ‘Rewriting Global Orthodoxy. Oriental Christians in Europe between 1970 and 2020’. In Martin Tamcke (ed), Europe and the Migration of Christian Communities from the Middle East (Gottingen: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022; Series:Gottinger Orientforschungen, I. Reihe: Syriaca , #65; ISBN: 9783447119184), 15-29.
(2021c) ‘Protestantism, the Middle East and Europe: A Hundred Years of Action Chrétienne en Orient’, Transformation, 23 Dec. 2021, 1-7. DOI: 10.1177/02653788211068198
(2021b) “Texts, Language, and Religion in the (Re)Making of the Syriac Orthodox Communities in Europe”, in Birgit Meyer, Peter van der Veer (eds), Refugees and Religion: Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories (Bloomsbury Academic: London etc.), 179-197. [https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/refugees-and-religion-ethnographic-studies-of-global-trajectories/ch10-texts-language-and-religion-in-the-making-of-syriac-orthodox-communities-in-europe] Chapter DOI 10.5040/9781350167162.0019
(2021a) “[Chapter 25:] The Christians of the Middle East: From Arab Christians to Marginalized Minorities”, in Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Roel Meijer, James Sater and Zahra Babar (Routledge, Abingdon); 364-377 [online Nov. 2020: https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9780429058288-30%5D
(2020c) “The Transformation of the Syriac Churches: Writing, Reading and Religion in the Ottoman period”. In Les chrétiens de tradition syriaque à l’époque ottomane. Edited by Bernard Heyberger (Geuthner), 77-92.
(2020b) ‘“A Strange Survival”: The Rev. W. A. Wigram on the Assyrians before and after World War I.’ In Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1970: Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices. Edited by Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karène Sanchez Summerer (Leiden: Brill), 110-129 [OA: https://brill.com/view/title/54485; DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004434530%5D.
(2020a) “Arabic and its Alternatives: Language and Religion in the Ottoman Empire and its Successor States.” In Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious Minorities and their Languages in the Emerging Nation States of the Middle East (1920-1950). Edited by Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Karène Sanchez, Tijmen C. Baarda (Brill, series Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies; Leiden), 1-49.
(2019b) [Invited] Comment on paper Sarah Bakker Kellogg, “Perforating Kinship: Syriac Christianity, Ethnicity, and Secular Legibility” Current Anthropology 60-4 (2019): 475-498, esp. 489-490.
(2019a) “De Syrisch-orthodoxe gemeenschap in Nederland”, Handelingen /1 (themanummer Wereldchristendom in Nederland, Jorge Castillo Guerra (red.), 16-29.
(2018b) “Syriac Identity in the Modern Era”, in Daniel King: The Syriac World (Routledge: Abingdon), 770-82.
(2018a) “Writing Assyrian History: the Military, the Patriarch and the British in Yaqu bar Malek Ismael’s Assyrians in Two World Wars (Tehran 1964)” (Shabo Talay, Berlin); in Shabo Talay & Soner O. Barthoma (eds), Sayfo 1915: An Anthology of Essays on the Genocide of Assyrians/Aramaeans during the First World War (Gorgias Press, Piscataway, Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies, 2018) p. 213-230.
(2016) ‘Searching for Common Ground: Jews and Christians in the Modern Middle East’, in S.R. Goldstein-Sabbah, H.L. Murre-van den Berg (eds), Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East (Leiden: Brill), 3-38 (Open Access: DOI 10.1163/9789004323285_002).
(2016), “The Language of the Nation: The Rise of Arabic among Jews and Christians (1900–1950),” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2016), DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2016.1138641.
(2016), Rima Nasrallah, Martien Brinkman, Heleen Murre-van den Berg & Marcel Barnard, “Rearranging Things: How Protestant attitudes shake the objects in the piety of Eastern Christian Women,” Material Religion 12:1, 74-95, DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2015.1120088
(2015) “Classical Syriac and the Syriac Churches: A Twentieth-Century History,” in M. Doerfler, E. Fiano, K. Smith, Syriac Encounters: Papers from the Sixth North American Syriac Symposium, Duke University, 26-29 June 2011 (Eastern Christian Studies 20; Louvain: Peeters), 119-148.
(2013) “A Center of Transnational Syriac Orthodoxy: St. Mark’s Convent in Jerusalem,” Journal of Levantine Studies 3(1), 61-83.
(2013) “Light from the East (1948-1954) and the De-Territorialization of the Assyrian Church of the East” In: W. Hofstee and A. van der Kooij (eds), Religion beyond its Private Role in Modern Society (Leiden: Brill) 115-134.
(2011) “The Colophon of Jerusalem Ms.Syr 1, a Gospel Lectionary from Alqosh (1679).” Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 63(3-4), 277-310.
(2011) “A ‘Good and Blessed Father’. Yonan of Ada on Justin Perkins, Urmia (Iran), 1870, in H. Nielssen, I.M. Okkenhaug, K. Hestad Skeie (eds), Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Unto the Ends of the World (Studies in Christian Mission 40; Leiden: Brill), 187-206.
(2010) “The Study of Western Missions in the Middle East (1820-1920): An Annotated Bibliography”, in Norbert Friedrich, Uwe Kaminsky, Roland Löffler (eds), The Social Dimension of Christian Missions in the Middle East: Historical Studies of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag), 35-53.
(2010) “‘Our Jerusalem’: Bertha Spafford Vester and Christianity in Palestine during the British Mandate,” in Rory Miller (ed.), Palestine, Britain and Empire: The Mandate Years (Surrey: Ashgate), 67-83.
(2010) ‘“An Inheritance with Sarah”: Women in the Church of the East (1500-1850),’ Internationale Kirchliche Zeitschrift 100/3, 190-208.
(2010) “Apostasy or ‘a House Built on Sand’: Jews, Muslims and Christians in East-Syriac texts (1500-1850),” in Sabine Schmidkte and Camilla Adang (eds), Contacts and Controversies between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire and Pre-Modern Iran (Istanbuler Texte und Studien 21; Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag), 223-243.
