Nadya Filipova

Assoc. Prof., PhD

Phone: +359 2 870 8513

E-mail: nadyafd(at)abv(dot)bg

1. MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH

Bulgarian Foreign Policy, Cold War, Post-Cold War Bulgarian Foreign Policy, Middle East, International Relations

2. ACADEMIC COMPETENCIES AND CAREER

Еducation

1989 – 1994
University of Sofia, Faculty of History

February, 1996
Master’s Degree Certificate in History (Thesis: ‘Ethnic and Religious Structure and Social Organisation of the Population in Bulgarian Towns in the 15th-17th centuries’)

Positions held

Scientific Secretary of the Institute for Historical Studies – BAS

Degree and academic rank

2008
PhD Degree (Topic: ‘Bulgarian policy towards Egypt, Syria and Iraq (mid 1950s – mid 1970s)’)

2017 –
Assoc. Prof.

Membership in academic organizations and associations

2013 –
Bulgarian Historical Association

Membership in editorial and publishing boards

2019 –

Editorial Board of “Historical Review”, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS

Participation in joint projects

2019 – 2020
National Science Program “Cultural and historical heritage, national memory and social development”, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science

2018 – 2020
Joint Research Project of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: “Bulgaria and China: Historical Parallels in the Attempts at Modernisation from the End of World War II to the Beginning of the 21st Century”

Teaching

2014 – Course ‘Bulgarian diplomacy in the Arab world during the time of the Cold war’, Master’s degree programme of the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, Faculty of Classical and modern Philology, Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’,

2017 – Course ‘The Middle East and International Relations’, Master’s degree programme of the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, Faculty of Classical and modern Philology, Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’,

Languages

English, Russian

3. PUBLICATIONS

Books

Bulgaria and Syria in the al-Assad Era. Sofia: Iztok – Zapad, 2017, ISBN 978-619-01-0035-5, 522 p. – in Bulgarian

Bulgarian Diplomacy in Egypt, Syria and Iraq in the Age of the Cold War (mid 1950s – mid 1970s). Sofia: Legal Advice, 2008, 359 p. – in Bulgarian

Papers

Publications in Bulgarian:

Socialism: Nationalism: Islam. Modifications of the Bulgarian Ideological and Political Line in the Arab World (late 1940s-mid 1970s). – Proceedings from the Third International Congress of Bulgarian Studies, co-organised by Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Education, Sofia, 23-26 May 2013, Sofia, 2018, pp. 28-44.

Palestinian projections of the Soviet-Bulgarian Partnership/1974-1978/. – Proceedings from International conference ‘135 years later: Bulgaria-Russia-Eurasia’, co-organized by Institute for Historical Studies, BAS, VIA EVRASIA Centre, Sofia University, Institute Slavjanovedenija, RAS, Sofia, 27 February-1 March 2013. – ALMANACH VIA EVRASIA, 2016, 5.

Palestinians in the Global Rivalry and the Arab Space in the interwar period (1956-1967): the vision of the Bulgarian Diplomats. – Historical Future, 2016, 1-2, pp.163-176.

Bulgarian Foreign Policy in the Arab Middle East in the Cold War (mid 1970s – late 1980s) – Historical review, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, 2014, 5-6, pp. 197-213.

Bulgarian Foreign Policy in the Arab Middle East in the Cold War (late 1940s-mid 1970s) – Historical review, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, 2014, 3-4, pp. 101-118.

The Bulgarian Party-State policy and the Arab Communist Parties on the Palestinian problem (mid 1960s-early 1970s). – Historical review, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, , 2013, 5-6, 144-160.

Problems of the Economic Relations of People’s Republic of Bulgaria with the Arab World until 1967 in the Analyses of Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economic Relations. – In: Izvestia na Balgarskoto Istorichesko Drujestvo, Vol. 41, Sofia, 2011, ISSN 0081-1122, pp. 463-473.

Bulgaria Creates Cultural and Educational Bridges with Syria (mid 1950s-mid 1960s.) – In: Problems and Challenge before Archaeological Research and Culture and History Studies. Proceedings from International Scientific Conference, Plovdiv University, vol. II, Plovdiv, 2008, pp. 320-331.

Tendencies in the Development of Economic Relations between Bulgaria and Egypt (late 1960s – early 1970s. – Historical Review, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, 2009, 1-2, pp. 164-185.

Bulgaria and the Arab Nationalism in Practice of Political Relationships with Egypt (1956-1966). – Historical Review, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, 2008, 1-2, pp. 202-230.

Problems of the Bulgarian Economic Relations with Egypt (mid 1950s-mid 1960s). – In: History of a Road. Proceedings from International Scientific Conference, Varna Free University, Varna, 2007, pp. 174-186.

Bulgarian Studies on History of the Arab World since the Second World War (political, military and ideological aspects). – In: History – Way of Usage. Proceedings from International Scientific Conference, Varna Free University, Varna, 2006, pp. 192-212.

Varna’s Manufacture Fair (1932-1940). – The Year-book of Varna Free University, 1998, 1, pp. 484-492.

The Unifying Role of the Theatre in Varna’s Cultural Life. – In: Summer International Scientific Meeting, Varna, 1997. Varna, 1998.

Publications in English and French:

Bulgaria and Syria in the Energy Markets Rivalry in the beginning of the 21st century. – Bulgarian Historical Review, 2015, 1-2, рр. 212-221.

Cooperation or Contest: Comecon Initiatives in Respect the ‘Developing Countries’ by the Time of 1973 Oil Crisis with Specific References to Hungary and Bulgaria. – In: Shared Pasts in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th–21st Centuries: Hungarian and Bulgarian Approaches (Eds. Penka Peykovska, Gabor Demeter). Sofia-Budapest. 2015, ISBN 978-954-2903-20-8 (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS); ISBN 978-963-416-009-0 (Institute of History – RCH, HAS); ISSN 0205-2504 (Institute for Historical Studies – BAS), pp. 314-328.

La presse et le public bulgares sur la societe irakienne, le regime de Saddam Hussein et le conflit militaire dans le golfe Persique de 1990-1991. – Bulgarian Historical Review, 2014, 1-2, ISSN 0204-8906, рр. 209-220.

Lebanon in the Bulgarian Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s and the Еarly1970s. – In: Regions, borders, societies, identities in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th-21st Сenturies. Bulgarian-Hungarian History Conference, Sofia, 16-17 May 2012. Papers. Eds. Penka Peykovska, Gabor Demeter). Sofia-Budapest. 2013, ISBN 978-954-2903-10-9; ISBN 978-963-9627-61-1 (Institute of History, RCH, HAS), pp. 307-317.

Bulgarian Foreign Policy on the Middle Eastern Deadlock at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s. – Les Cahiers Irice, 2013, 10: Les pays d’Europe orientale et la Mediterranee. Relations et regards croises (1967-1989). Actes du Colloque international co-organisé par l’UMR IRICE et le RICHIE, 2 et 3 Fevrier 2012. ISSN 1967-2713, рp. 25-37.

4. PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS

Presentation „Bulgarian Specialists in the Arab World during the Cold War“. – Scientific Round Table „Bulgaria and China: Historical Parallels in the Attempts at Modernization from the End of World War II to the Beginning of the 21st Century”, Sofia, 1 November 2019

Presentation “Between national interests and Comecon ambitions regarding the ‘developing countries’: the cases of Bulgaria and Hungary” – Bulgarian-Hungarian Conference „Mission impossible–Courage as Virtue in the Politics“, Sofia, 7 November 2016

Presentation „Bulgaria and Syria in the Rivalry in the Energy Markets during the Late 2000s and the Early 2010s“– Bulgarian – Chinese Scientific Round Table, 18 November 2015

Presentation „Moscow and its favorite lackey, Sofia: the main illusions of the junior partner in the Soviet bloc” – „Fourth European congress on World and Global History”, organized by ENIUGH, Paris, 4-7 September 2014

Presentation „Nourishing political and sectarian polarization: the Soviet bloc foreign policy in the Arab Middle East” – „Fourth World congress for Middle Eastern Studies”, Ankara, 18-22 August 2014

Presentation ”Lebanon in the Bulgarian Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s and the еarly1970s.–Изнесен пред международна научна българо-унгарска конференция „Regions, borders, societies, identities in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th-21st centuries”, Sofia, 16-17 May 2012

Presentation „Bulgarian Foreign Policy on the Middle Eastern Deadlock at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s.” – „Les pays d’Europe orientale et la Mediterranee. Relations et regards croises (1967-1989)”, Colloque international co-organisé par l’UMR IRICE et le RICHIE, Paris, 2 et 3 Fevrier 2012

5. PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

Lectures and other public events to promote academic achievements

Lecture „Modernization of Bulgaria during the Cold War – aspects, discussions, and attitudes in Bulgarian history research analyses“ – Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 25 September 2018

Lecture „Bulgarian Foreign Policy in the Middle East in the 1990-s and the beginning of the 21st century“ – Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 25 September 2018