AMMAN -- HRH Prince El Hassan, President of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), on Wednesday inaugurated the "Christians in the Arab Levant and the Aspirations of Unity and Enlightenment" conference, organised by the institute.
The Chaldean Community Foundation/Chamber of Commerce has opened a $15 million "CCF West" at 2075 Walnut Lake Rd., west of Inkster Road, in West Bloomfield Township. The new facility expands the chamber's operations in Oakland County.
Ashurbanipal is having a moment. Some 2,600 years after his death, the King of Assyria has been the subject of a major exhibition in London, featured in Elif Shafak's best-selling novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky, and now has the shelves of his library opened up for inspection in Selena Wisnom's new study.
The Acropolis Museum in Athens is launching a thought-provoking exhibition this spring that bridges ancient Mesopotamian heritage with contemporary art, shedding light on the destruction and displacement of cultural treasures.
A German archaeological team has uncovered graves, skeletal remains, and pottery at the ancient site of Ashur in northern Iraq, as part of an ongoing excavation in coordination with Iraq's Ministry of Culture, the site's director said Wednesday. .
This year marks 110 years since the 1915 genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians/Syriacs/Chaldeans, Yazidis, Greeks, and Maronites of the Ottoman Empire. Every April 24, as an Armenian Catholic and descendant of survivors, I mark the day by commemorating the 1.5 million Armenians who perished--and all communities harmed in 1915. To commemorate one group demands commemorating all.