{"id":11606,"date":"2020-03-02T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/academic-staff\/%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b4%d1%8f-%d1%84%d0%b8%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:38:05","slug":"nadya-filipova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/academic-staff\/nadya-filipova\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadya Filipova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assoc. Prof. Nadya Dimitrova Filipova, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scientific secretary of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n

Research ID <\/strong>(Web of Science): AAI-9341-2020<\/a>
\nScopus Author ID:<\/strong> 57214897355<\/a>
\nORCID ID: <\/strong>0000-0003-2762-3630<\/a><\/p>\n

Phone: +359 2 870 8513<\/p>\n

E-mail: nadyafd(at)abv(dot)bg; ndfilipova(at)uni-sofia(dot)bg<\/p>\n

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH<\/strong><\/h3>\n

International Relations, Cold War, Middle East, Migrations, Minorities, Bulgarian Foreign Policy<\/p>\n

ACADEMIC COMPETENCIES AND CAREER<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u0415DUCATION<\/strong><\/h4>\n

1989 \u2013 1994
\nSofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Faculty of History<\/p>\n

February, 1996
\nMaster\u2019s Degree Certificate in History (Thesis: \u2018Ethnic and Religious Structure and Social Organisation of the Population in Bulgarian Towns in the 15th<\/sup> \u2013 17th<\/sup> centuries\u2019)<\/p>\n

POSITIONS HELD<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Scientific Secretary of the Institute for Historical Studies \u2013 BAS<\/p>\n

DEGREE AND ACADEMIC RANK<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2008
\nPhD Degree (Topic: \u2018Bulgarian policy towards Egypt, Syria and Iraq (mid 1950s \u2013 mid 1970s\u2019)<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 present
\nAssoc. Prof., Institute for Historical Studies \u2013 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n

2023 \u2013 present
\nAssoc. Prof., Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies \u2013 Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski<\/p>\n

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING BOARDS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2019 \u2013 2022
\nEditorial Board of \u201cHistorical Review\u201d, Institute for Historical Studies \u2013 Bulgarian Academy of Science<\/p>\n

2024 \u2013  Member of the Association for Israel Studies<\/p>\n

PARTICIPATION IN JOINT PROJECTS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

2025 \u2013 2027
\n\u2018Beyond the Boundaries of Time and Space: Bulgaria and Egypt in the Dynamics of Transformations in the Middle Eas\u2019, Joint Research Project of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Historical Studies and Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Damanhour University; Project coordinator<\/p>\n

2023
\n\u2018Religion, Center, Periphery: the East in Europe, Europe in the East\u2019, Funded by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski<\/p>\n

2022 \u2013 present
\nNational Scientific Programme \u201cDevelopment of Bulgarian studies abroad\u201d, funded by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science<\/p>\n

2019 \u2013 2022
\nNational Scientific Programme \u201cCultural and historical heritage, national memory and social development\u201d, funded by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science<\/p>\n

2021
\n\u2018Contemporary Trends in Arabic and Islamic Studies\u2019, Funded by Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 2020
\nJoint Research Project of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: \u201cBulgaria and China: Historical Parallels in the Attempts at Modernisation from the End of World War II to the Beginning of the 21st Century\u201d<\/p>\n

TEACHING EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Courses taught in Bachelor\u2019s Programme <\/em>of the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, Faculty of Classical and modern Philology, Sofia University \u2018St. Kliment Ohridski\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

2025 \u2013
\nArab States in World Politics and Economy<\/p>\n

2024 \u2013 present
\nBulgarians and the Arab World<\/p>\n

2024 \u2013
\nThe Oil Factor and Energy Markets in the Middle East<\/p>\n

Courses taught in Master\u2019s Programme <\/em>of the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, <\/em>Faculty of Classical and modern Philology, <\/em>Sofia University \u2018St. Kliment Ohridski\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

2025 \u2013
\nModern Egypt: Society and Politics, Master\u2019s Programme in Egyptology<\/p>\n

2025 \u2013
\nThe Arab-Israeli Conflict and Peace Process in the Middle East, Master\u2019s Programme in Middle Eastern Studies<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 present
\nBulgarian Diplomacy in the Arab World, Master\u2019s Programme in Middle Eastern Studies<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 present
\nThe Middle East and International Relations, Master\u2019s Programme in Middle Eastern Studies<\/p>\n

2023 \u2013 present
\nAmerican Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Master\u2019s Programme in Middle Eastern Studies<\/p>\n

Courses for Ph.D. Students<\/em><\/p>\n

2021 \u2013 present The Contemporary Middle East<\/p>\n

LANGUAGES<\/strong><\/h3>\n

English, Russian, Arabic (basic)<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Books <\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Bulgaria and Syria in al-Assad\u2019s Era. Sofia: Iztok – Zapad, 2017, ISBN 978-619-01-0035-5, 522 p. (in Bulgarian)<\/p>\n

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)<\/p>\n

Papers<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n
Publications in Bulgarian<\/em><\/h5>\n

Bulgarian-Arab Relations in the Fields of Education and Culture in the Years of the Cold War. \u2013 In: Galina Evstatieva, Viktor Todorov (Editors). Norm, Change and Sacredness in Arabic Language and Islamic Culture<\/em>. Sofia:  Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Press, 2024, pp. 243-262.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Assistance for the Palestinian Arabs in the Period of the Cold War. \u2013 In: Galina Evstatieva, Pavel Pavlovich (Editors). Arabic Literary Tradition and the Qur\u2019an. Studies in Honor of Prof. Tsvetan Teophanov.<\/em> Sofia: Iztok-Zapad, 2023, pp. 347-364.<\/p>\n

The state and Bulgarians Temporarily Working in Libya in the 1970s. \u2013 Istoria<\/em>, 2021, Vol. 29, 1, pp. 83-98.<\/p>\n

Labour migrations of Bulgarians in Libya in the 1980s. \u2013 In: Migracii, obshtnosti I kylturno-istorichesko nasledstvo (Migrations, Communities and Cultural-Historical Heritage)<\/em>, Ed. by Peykovska, P., Gesheva, J. Maeva, M., Filipova, N., Dimitrov, S., Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 479-489<\/p>\n

Socialism: Nationalism: Islam. Modifications of the Bulgarian Ideological and Political Line in the Arab World (late 1940s – mid 1970s). \u2013 Proceedings from the Third International Congress of Bulgarian Studies, co-organised by Sofia University \u2018St. Kliment Ohridski\u2019 and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Ministry of Education, Sofia, 23-26 May 2013, Sofia, 2018, pp. 28-44.<\/p>\n

Palestinian Projections of the Soviet-Bulgarian Partnership (1974-1978). \u2013 Proceedings from International conference \u2018135 years later: Bulgaria-Russia-Eurasia\u2019, co-organized by Institute for Historical Studies, BAS, VIA EVRASIA Centre, Sofia University, Institute Slavjanovedenija, RAS, Sofia, 27 February \u2013 1 March 2013. \u2013 ALMANACH VIA EVRASIA, 2016, 5.<\/p>\n

Palestinians in the Global Rivalry and the Arab Space in the interwar period (1956-1967): the Vision of the Bulgarian Diplomats. \u2013 Historical Future, 2016, 1-2, pp.163-176.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Foreign Policy in the Arab Middle East in the Cold War (mid 1970s – late 1980s) \u2013 Istoricheski pregled, 2014, 5-6, pp. 197-213.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Foreign Policy in the Arab Middle East in the Cold War (late 1940s-mid 1970s) \u2013 Istoricheski pregled, 2014, 3-4, pp. 101-118.<\/p>\n

The Bulgarian Party-State policy and the Arab Communist Parties on the Palestinian problem (mid 1960s-early 1970s). \u2013 Istoricheski pregled, 2013, 5-6, 144-160.<\/p>\n

Problems of the Economic Relations of People\u2019s Republic of Bulgaria with the Arab World until 1967 in the Analyses of Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Economic Relations. \u2013 In: Izvestia na Balgarskoto Istorichesko Drujestvo, Vol. 41, Sofia, 2011, ISSN 0081-1122, pp. 463-473.<\/p>\n

Bulgaria Creates Cultural and Educational Bridges with Syria (mid 1950s-mid 1960s.) \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

Tendencies in the Development of Economic Relations between Bulgaria and Egypt \/late 1960s – early 1970s. \u2013 Historical Review, Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, 2009, 1-2, pp. 164-185.<\/p>\n

Bulgaria and the Arab Nationalism in Practice of Political Relationships with Egypt (1956-1966). \u2013 Istoricheski pregled, 2008, 1-2, pp. 202-230.<\/p>\n

Problems of the Bulgarian Economic Relations with Egypt (mid 1950s-mid 1960s). \u2013 In: History of a Road. Proceedings from International Scientific Conference, Varna Free University, Varna, 2007, pp. 174-186.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Studies on History of the Arab World since the Second World War (political, military and ideological aspects). \u2013 In: History \u2013 Way of Usage. Proceedings from International Scientific Conference, Varna Free University, Varna, 2006, pp. 192-212.<\/p>\n

Varna\u2019s Manufacture Fair (1932-1940). \u2013 The Year-book of Varna Free University, 1998, 1, pp. 484-492.<\/p>\n

The Unifying Role of the Theatre in Varna\u2019s Cultural Life. \u2013 In: Summer International Scientific Meeting, Varna, 1997. Varna, 1998.<\/p>\n

Publications in English and French:<\/em><\/h5>\n

Soviet Bloc, Power Struggle, and Social Changes in Syria (mid-1950s \u2013 mid-1960s). \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review<\/em>, 2024, 1-2, ISSN 0204-8906, pp. 137-158.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Trace in the Middle East: Syria. \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review<\/em>, 2023, 3-4, ISSN 0204-8906, pp. 199-221.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Traces in Syria. The Beginning. \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review, <\/em>2022, 3-4, ISSN 0204-8906, pp. 210-230.<\/p>\n

Bulgarians working in Syria during the Cold War. In: Marcheva, I., Wang Xiaoju. W., Dimitrova, P., Manasieva, I., Dineva, D. (Eds). Proceedings of the Institute for Historical Studies \u201cBulgaria and China: Attempts at Modernization during the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century\u201d. Vol. XXXVII, Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, pp. 87-96.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Temporary Labour Migration in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review<\/em>, 1-2, 2021, ISSN:0204-8906, pp. 130-157.<\/p>\n

Bulgaria and Syria in the Energy Markets Rivalry in the beginning of the 21st century. \u2013 Bulgarian Historical Review, 2015, 1-2, \u0440\u0440. 212-221.<\/p>\n

Cooperation or Contest: Comecon Initiatives in Respect the \u2018Developing Countries\u2019 by the Time of 1973 Oil Crisis with Specific References to Hungary and Bulgaria. \u2013 In: Shared Pasts in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th\u201321st Centuries: Hungarian and Bulgarian Approaches (Eds. Penka Peykovska, Gabor Demeter). Sofia\u2013Budapest. 2015, ISBN 978-954-2903-20-8 (Institute for Historical Studies \u2013 BAS); ISBN 978-963-416-009-0 (Institute of History \u2013 RCH, HAS); ISSN 0205-2504 (Institute for Historical Studies \u2013 BAS), pp. 314-328.<\/p>\n

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, \u0440\u0440. 209-220.<\/p>\n

Lebanon in the Bulgarian Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s and the \u0415arly1970s. \u2013 In: Regions, borders, societies, identities in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th-21st \u0421enturies. 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.<\/p>\n

Bulgarian Foreign Policy on the Middle Eastern Deadlock at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s. \u2013 Les Cahiers Irice, 2013, 10: Les pays d\u2019Europe orientale et la Mediterranee. Relations et regards croises\/1967-1989\/. Actes du Colloque international co-organis\u00e9 par l\u2019UMR IRICE et le RICHIE, 2 et 3 Fevrier 2012. ISSN 1967-2713, \u0440p. 25-37.<\/p>\n

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Paper \u201cBetween Peace and War: The Soviet Bloc and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1967\u20131973\u201d). \u2013 The East: Near and Far: Texts, Societies and Cultures,<\/em> International conference, Sofia, 28-30 November 2024.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201cCapturing the Youth: Antisemitic Indoctrinations in the Bulgarian Nationalist Press of the late 1930s and early 1940s.\u201d \u2013 The Press and the Holocaust<\/em>, University NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, 21-22 November 2024: https:\/\/ihc.fcsh.unl.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-11-21_Press-Holocaust_Programme_web.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201cLebanese Aspects of the Financial and Economic Activities of the Soviet Bloc States.\u201d \u2013 International Scientific Conference \u201c<\/em>Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans:<\/em> Historical Perspectives, Cultural Bridges, and New Horizons<\/em>, 3 \u2013 4 October 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201cImplementing the Soviet Bloc anti-Israeli Approach in Lebanon in the 1980s: Bulgarian Official Stance and Covert Accounts\u201c. \u2013 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies and 12th Annual Conference of the European Association of Israel Studies, titled: \u201cIsrael and Israel Studies: The European and International Perspective<\/em>\u201d, Prague, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, 1-3 July 2024.<\/p>\n

Keynote paper \u201cThe Side Effects of the Cooperation between the Soviet Bloc and Hafez al-Assad Regime\u201d, East-West: Religions, Centers, Peripheries<\/em>, Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, 19-20 October, 2023.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201eBulgarian Specialists in the Arab World during the Cold War\u201c, <\/em>Round Table \u201eBulgaria and China: Historical Parallels in the Attempts at Modernization from the End of World War II to the Beginning of the 21st Century<\/em>, Sofia, 1 November 2019.<\/p>\n

Lecture \u201eModernization of Bulgaria during the Cold War \u2013 aspects, discussions, and attitudes in Bulgarian history research analyses \u201c, Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 25 September 2018.<\/p>\n

Lecture \u201eBulgarian Foreign Policy in the Middle East in the 1990-s and the beginning of the 21st century \u201c, Institute of World History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, 25 September 2018.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201cBetween national interests and Comecon ambitions regarding the \u2018developing countries\u2019: the cases of Bulgaria and Hungary\u201d, Bulgarian \u2013 Hungarian Conference \u201eMission impossible\u2013Courage as Virtue in the Politics\u201c<\/em>, Sofia, 7 November 2016.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201eBulgaria and Syria in the Rivalry in the Energy Markets during the Late 2000s and the Early 2010s\u201c, Bulgarian \u2013 Chinese Scientific Round Table, 18 November 2015.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201eMoscow and its favorite lackey, Sofia: the main illusions of the junior partner in the Soviet bloc\u201d, Fourth European congress on World and Global History<\/em>, organized by ENIUGH, Paris, 4-7 September 2014.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201eNourishing political and sectarian polarization: the Soviet bloc foreign policy in the Arab Middle East\u201d, Fourth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies<\/em>, Ankara, 18-22 August 2014.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201dLebanon in the Bulgarian Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s and the \u0435arly1970s. \u2013Regions, borders, societies, identities in Central and Southeast Europe, 17th-21st centuries<\/em>, Sofia, 16-17 May 2012.<\/p>\n

Paper \u201eBulgarian Foreign Policy on the Middle Eastern Deadlock at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s.\u201d, Les pays d\u2019Europe orientale et la Mediterranee. Relations et regards croises (1967-1989)<\/em>, Colloque international co-organis\u00e9 par l\u2019UMR IRICE et le RICHIE, Paris, 2 et 3 Fevrier 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assoc. Prof. Nadya Dimitrova Filipova, PhD Scientific secretary of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Research ID (Web of Science): AAI-9341-2020 Scopus Author ID: 57214897355 ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2762-3630 Phone: +359 2 870 8513 E-mail: nadyafd(at)abv(dot)bg; ndfilipova(at)uni-sofia(dot)bg MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH International Relations, Cold War, Middle East, Migrations, Minorities, Bulgarian Foreign … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":11511,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14742,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11606\/revisions\/14742"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihist.bas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}