Vassilios Christides
Degrees
Ph.D Princeton University (1970)
MA University of California, Los Angeles
BA University of Athens
Research Honours
Honorary Medal of the October 2006
Dept. of Asian and African Studies
of St. Petersburg State University
Research Fellow Summer 2002 and 2003. The University of
Oklahoma. The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
Spring 1999. Princeton University
Visiting Scholar Fall 1996. Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton. Fulbright grant
Summer 1980. Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton. Fulbright grant
American Philosophical
Society Award 1973
American Council of Learned
Societies Award 1973
Junior Fellow 1965-1968. Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University
Teaching experience
New York
College, Athens, 2004-2010 (part time)
University
of La Verne, Athens branch, 1983-2004 (part time)
University
of Cyprus, 1998, Fall Semester
University of the Aegean, Spring Semester 2002
University of Ioannina, 1989 - 1998
University of Thessaloniki, 1978-1982
Columbia University, 1971-1977
University of Minnesota, 1970-1971
St. John's College (Annapolis), 1969-1970
Currently Research Associate at the Department of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of South African
Visiting Professor -Lectures
National
Research Foundation, Athens, public seminars, spring 2011, 2012, 2013
Princeton
University, September 2003
Rand
Afrikaans University, South Africa, September 2001
Sorbonne
University, March-April 2001 and March-May 1994, Directeur d’Études
University
of Ain Shams, Egypt, March 2000
Five lectures at the University of Zhongshan, Guangzhou, China (December 26, 2009 – January 10, 2010)
University of Cordoba (October 28-29, 2009)
University of Ain Shams, Egypt, February 2008
University of Bergen, Norway, September 2006, summer sessions, 1995, 1992, 1991, 1988
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavonic Studies, April 2005
University of Cairo, Egypt, March 1998
University of Yarmouk, Jordan, February-May 1993
Free University of Berlin, 2011, 1991, 1984
University of Kuwait, Kuwait, 1988
University of Tübingen, Germany, 1986
Publications
1. The Image of the Pre-Islamic Arab in the Byzantine Sources, Princeton 1970.
2. The Conquest of Crete by the Arabs (ca. 824). A Turning Point in the Struggle
between Byzantium and Islam, Academy of Athens, Athens 1984.
3. Byzantine Libya and the March of the Arabs towards the West of North Africa,
BAR International Series, Oxford 2000.
4. The Image of Cyprus in the Arabic Sources, Nicosia 2006. Edition of the Foundation of Archbishop Makarios III Cultural Center.
5. East and West, Essays on Byzantine and Arab Worlds in the Middle Ages, edition by Vassilios Christides, Juan Pedro Monferrer and Theodoros Papadopoullos, Pisataway, N. J. 2009.
6. The Martyrdom of Athanasius of Klysma. A Saint from the Egyptian Desert, study, edition and translation of the Greek and Arabic texts by Vassilios Christides, Christian Høgel and Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Institute for Graeco-Oriental and African Studies, Athens 2012.
About 80 articles in numerous periodicals such as Byzantion, Le Muséon, Encyclopaedia of Islam, The Dictionary of Middle Ages, Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History, Ekklesiastikos Pharos, Antiquité Tardive, Byzantinoslavica, Annales d’Ethiopie, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Berytus, American Nepture, Tropis, Graeco-Arabica, Collectanea Christiana Orientalia, and others.
Other activities
Chief Editor of the periodical GRAECO-ARABICA (11 volumes, 1982-2011). Reviewer of the periodicals Al-Masaq and Qurtuba
Member of the External Referee Committee of the periodical Collectanea Christiana Orientalia.
Director of the Institute for Graeco-Oriental and African Studies, Kryoneri Attikis
Organization of thirteen International Congresses on Greek-Oriental and African Studies (1983-2011) in Athens, Delphi, Cyprus, Oinoussai-Chios, Neapoli of Laconia Kryoneri Attikis, Heraklion of Crete.
Lecture and exhibition of Byzantine-Arab warships at the National Research Foundation, Athens (June 10, 2013)
Special focus on Navigation
Exhibitions
I have organized four exhibitions on Navigation: (a) in the International European Center of Delphi (1985), (b) in The National Research Foundation (1990), (c) in the Cultural Center of Athens and in the Research Center of Kuwait (1998), (d) Exhibition of models of Byzantine and Arab ships at the Development Center of Oinoussai-Agean (2000), exhibition of models of Byzantine-Arab warships in Naxos sponsored by the Institute for Graeco-Oriental and African Studies and the Historical Association of Naxos, “Arsos” (September 2012)
Forthcoming Activities
Participation in the International Congress in Johannesburg (May 2014), organized by Prof. B. Hendrickx, University of Johannesburg
Publication of the 12th volume of the periodical Graeco-Arabica (2014), Proceedings of the International conference on Graeco-Oriental and African Studies (Heraklion, Crete, November 2011)
Conference in Naxos with the topic “The trade routes and navigation in the Mediterranean from the 7th to the 13th century, and in the Red Sea from the 4th to the 7th century” (September 2013)
Forthcoming Articles
The Odyssey of the Andalusian Conquerors of Crete: From Cordoba via Alexandria to Crete, Graeco-Arabica 12.
PIRACY, PRIVATEERING AND MARITIME VIOLENT ACTIONS: Maritime Violent Activities of the Taifa of Denia in Spain (11th c.) vs. the Arab Maritime Jihād in the Eastern Mediterranean from the middle of the 7th c. – 11th c., in Seeraub im Mittelemeerraum, ed. Nikolas Jaspert and Sebastian Kolditz.
What Went Wrong in the Long Distance Roman Naval Power in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in the Late Third Century AD, in Graeco-latina et orientalia. Studia in honorem Angeli Urbani sexagenarii.
The Naval Battle of Dhāt al-Ṣawāri Revisited (ca 653, 654 or 655), in Marine Archaeology, New Delhi.
The Literary Sources of the Battle of Dhāt al-Ṣawāri, in the Festschrift of Prof. Ben Hendrickx, University of Johannesburg.
Travels in the Erythraean Sea, the Arabian Gulf and the Indian Ocean in the Byzantine and Arabic Sources: Imagination and Reality. Ekklesiastikos Pharos.
Greek fire, in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition, and two articles about the Andalusian conquerors of Crete and the emirate of Crete to be written in this encyclopaedia.+30 210 8161037
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