(AINA) -- A new French-language book titled Pour L'amour d'une Mére - Itinéraires d'un Assyro-Chaldéen (For the Love of a Mother -- Travel Paths of an Assyro-Chaldean) is published by Editions du Cerf (Paris) and authored by Joseph Jacoub and Pascal Maguesyan. It is an autobiographical book with interviews, conducted by Pascal Maguesyan. This book tells the story of a life.
(AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan" -- Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks.
(AINA) -- The following lecture was delivered by Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeloo in Yerevan, Armenia. Dr. Al-Jeloo addresses the issue of the meaning of the Armenian word asori and the attempts of revisionist scholars to redefine the word so as not to mean Assyrian. ...
(AINA) -- Assyrian leaders and advocates are sounding the alarm on escalating human rights violations in Iraq and Syria, where forced displacement, systemic discrimination, and cultural erasure continue unabated. As political disenfranchisement and targeted violence drive Assyrians from their ancestral lands, the urgent need for intervention grows stronger.
(AINA) -- Professor Mikhail Davidov has died at the age of 77 in Moscow. Dr. Davidov was an oncology surgeon and a member of the the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was born on October 11, 1947 in the Ukrainian city of Konotop, Sumy region, a descendant of Assyrian refugees from the Gawar region in southeast Turkey.
(AINA) -- A video of Assyrian nuns at a hockey game in Detroit has gone viral. Detroit is home to nearly 100,000 Assyrians, most of whom are Roman Catholic (Chaldeans). ...