Eden Naby

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Eden Naby is an Assyrian-Iranian cultural historian of Central Asia and the Middle East. She was born in the once important Assyrian town of Golpashan, located outside Urmia in Iran. Eden Naby has conducted research, taught and published on minority issues in countries from Turkey to Xinjiang. Her work on Afghanistan and on the Assyrians stands out in the field of cultural survival. She was married to Richard Frye (1975) and they had one son, Nels Frye.