Political scientist and independent researcher focusing on international relations, conflict studies and Middle Eastern history, with an emphasis on situating Assyrian issues within regional power dynamics and questions of sovereignty and identity.
Recent Western support for Kurdish autonomy exposes a double standard: moral concern becomes political protection only when claims are seen as institutionally legible. Assyrian demands, rooted in restraint, continuity, and survival, have been denied that recognition, argues Ninos Marcus.
A “Christian province” in the Nineveh Plain would betray the Assyrian cause and transform historic Assyrian land into a symbolic administrative unit that is praised internationally, controlled externally, and emptied of national meaning, argues Ninos Marcus.
The political order that emerged in northern Iraq after 1991 departed sharply from its original pluralistic vision. Instead of an inclusive post Ba’ath framework reflecting ethnic and historical diversity, governance consolidated around a single ethno nationalist project, writes Ninos Marcus.
