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.
(AINA) -- Assyrian identity is not a passing affiliation or a distant historical memory; it is a living, evolving project that carries within it thousands of years of civilization, knowledge, resilience, and renewal.
We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the basis of modern capitalism, in a region spanning most of modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. The Assyrian empire was the root of what many scholars would now call "the West".
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.
Ankara -- Assyrian Member of the Turkish Parliament for the Peoples' Equality and Democratic Party (Halklarin Esitlik ve Demokrasi Partisi, DEM Party) George Aryo raised the long-standing property grievances of the Assyrian people in Tur Abdin and surrounding regions on Monday during a 2025 Planning and Budget Committee meeting where the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's budget was under...
"Assyrian" and "advocacy" were two words I never dreamed would resonate with me. Until recently, I didn't even think of myself as Assyrian. As the daughter of Iraqi immigrants, I viewed myself through the lens of nationality and the language my parents spoke -- Arabic. Because of that, I saw myself as an Arab, without any nuances to my identity.
To recount the failure (of a utopia) is to fail in the very act of recounting. Fragments of truth -- what is nevertheless conveyed. Imagine a text about the notes for a text that was never written. I recall a trip in the 2000s to Mesopotamia, to Mardin and Midyat, together with my mother and in the company of a journalist and family friend who had written two reports -- one about Yazidis, the...
The author of the book Not Even My Name returns with a new book entitled Genocide: the Cornerstone of Modern Turkey which was presented on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 19:30 pm at the Black Sea Club. On the occasion of the presentation of the new book, Thea Halo spoke to Radio Thessaloniki about the need for recognition of the Genocide.
Newly elected lawmaker Kaldo Oghanna says he and two other winning Assyrian candidates will form a single parliamentary bloc -- a move that could reshape the community's presence in Baghdad's shifting political landscape.
(AINA) -- The recent decision by the Democratic Autonomous Administration of the Region of North and East Syria (DAARNES) to officially incorporate the Assyrian language into its website marks a significant milestone for cultural representation, linguistic rights, and digital inclusion.
(AINA) -- Dr. Sabro Bengaro is the Director of the Assyrian Genocide Research Center. His recently completed dissertation, titled Germany's Islamic Strategy During the First World War and the Impact of the Jihad Declaration on the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, examines, among other things, the German Empire's Islamic...
(AINA) -- The Assyrian Arts Institute (AAI) is an organization founded by Nora Betyousef Lacey in 2017 and claims to support Assyrian arts. AAI has sponsored a few events since its founding, including an Assyrian women's choir.
(AINA) -- On July 12 Iraqi president Abdul Latif Rashid repealed the decree recognizing the appointment of Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako as head of the Chaldean Catholic Church and which appointed him to the office of the waqf (وقف), the endowment which oversees all church property. The details of the events leading up to this action are exhaustively covered in this report by MEMRI.
(AINA) -- Assyrian identity is not a passing affiliation or a distant historical memory; it is a living, evolving project that carries within it thousands of years of civilization, knowledge, resilience, and renewal.
(AINA) -- Iraq today faces a deep and troubling challenge، the escalating influence of Iran within its political, security, and economic institutions. Once a nation striving to restore its sovereignty and rebuild after decades of war and suffering, Iraq has become an open arena for foreign agendas.
We think of ancient civilisations as operating very differently from the way our economy works today. Yet the Bronze Age Assyrians living in Mesopotamia, around 4,000 to 3,000 years ago, began the basis of modern capitalism, in a region spanning most of modern-day Iraq, eastern Syria and southeastern Turkey. The Assyrian empire was the root of what many scholars would now call "the West".
To recount the failure (of a utopia) is to fail in the very act of recounting. Fragments of truth -- what is nevertheless conveyed. Imagine a text about the notes for a text that was never written. I recall a trip in the 2000s to Mesopotamia, to Mardin and Midyat, together with my mother and in the company of a journalist and family friend who had written two reports -- one about Yazidis, the...