Dyana Dawood is of Assyrian background, and at just four years old she left Mosul with her family, fleeing the violence and instability that had devastated her city. They moved to Jordan, where she discovered football playing with neighborhood kids, often being the only girl among them.
The online dictionaries hosted at assyrianlanguages.org are among the most enduring community projects dedicated to the preservation of Assyrian heritage. Conceived in France by the Association Assyrophile de France (AAF), the association began with the digitization of printed resources and gradually expanded into two major online tools: first the Akkadian--French/English dictionary, and later the...
The British Museum is well placed to refer to the discovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal as "one of the most important" archaeological finds of all time. Almost everything we know about the Assyrian Empire comes from the library's 30,000 or so cuneiform tablets. The empire is one of the oldest known civilizations on the planet. Founded sometime during 14th century B.C.E.
In an age of global mobility and dispersal, the phrase Christians of the East evokes both immediacy and distance. It gestures toward regions where the great monotheistic traditions emerged -- Sumer, Assyria, ancient Israel -- and toward communities that now live in Amsterdam, Södertälje, Stuttgart, Sydney, Jerusalem, Kerala, and the Caucasus.
On Tuesday, a Hungarian delegation visited the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate in the Bab Touma district of Daramsuq (Damascus), where Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II welcomed them. The delegation included head of the Hungarian State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians Tristan Azbej, Member of European Parliament György Hölvényi (Christian Democratic People's Party, KDNP), Hungary's...
The foundation of precious libraries and the collection of scientific, religious, and historical manuscripts have been a longstanding priority for Syriac Patriarchs, bishops, and abbots. References to these libraries are documented throughout Syriac literary history.