Sossie Kasbarian is Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Lancaster. She is co-editor of the book Contextualizing Community – Diasporas of the Middle East (with Anthony Gorman, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2014). She is also co-editor (with Kerem Öktem) of the special issue of the journal Patterns of Prejudice entitled Armenians, Turks and Kurds Beyond Denial (Vol. 48, May 2014), as well as the author of several articles relating to the Middle East and Diaspora Studies.