Publications
Take a look at the Nahrein Network Core Team's list of publications:
Professor Eleanor Robson
2025: with Nadia Aït Saïd-Ghanem, Parsa Daneshmand, Steve Tinney, et. al., The Forgotten City of Kish. Open access Oracc website.
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).
Professor Robson's research was the subject of UCL's Where Research Transforms Lives podcast, episode 6: "Where research transforms how we protect cultural heritage".
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., & 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
2024: Collins, P. ‘The Ur excavations in context: Empire, war, museums and race’, in N. Postgate and D.C. Thomas (eds.), Ur 1922–2022: Papers Marking the Centenary of Sir Leonard Woolley’s First Season of Excavations at Ur. London: BISI, pp. 3–10.
2022: Collins, P. 'Telling stories at the Ashmolean Museum: an Ancient Middle East gallery for the twenty-first century?' in A. Stevenson (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 435–465
2021: Collins, P. The Sumerians: Lost Civilizations. Reaktion Books.
2019. Collins, P. 'Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East. A view from the Ashmolean and the British Museum.' In G. Emberling and L.P. Petit (eds.), Museums and the Ancient Middle East: Curatorial Practice and Audiences. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 15–26.