Assyrian Culture Rings In Program Journal & Topics Newspapers Online Niles West High School was overflowing with Assyrians Sunday as Coming Together In Skokie (CTIS) held its kick off event. Niles North and West students greeted visitors arriving at the event in traditional Assyrian dress.
Scholars Call for Israeli Knesset To Recognize Assyrian and Greek Genocide Greek Reporter By Stella Tsolakidou on February 3, 2012 in Israel, News In a significant milestone for efforts towards the worldwide recognition of the Assyrian genocide, nearly thirty internationally renowned holocaust and genocide scholars, and Assyrian and Greek ...
Six-week Assyrian culture program kicks off in Skokie Skokie Review This year's edition celebrates Assyrian Culture. | Jerry Daliege~for Sun-Times Media The first of more than 30 events over the next six weeks celebrating Assyrian culture kicked off this year's Coming Together In Skokie program Sunday at Niles West ...
Scholars Call for Israeli Recognition of the Assyrian Genocide AINA (press release) (AINA) -- In a significant milestone for efforts towards the worldwide recognition of the Assyrian genocide, nearly thirty internationally renowned holocaust and genocide scholars, and Assyrian and Greek social, cultural and religious groups, ...
Assyrian civic club installs new officers The Turlock Journal The Assyrian American Civic Club of Turlock installed new officers on Saturday. Among them was club president Raymond George, who was re-elected to serve another term. The Assyrian American Civic Club of Turlock holds elections to decide their ...
Picore – Assyrian Vertigo The Skinny Throughout its course, there's a canny sense of momentum to Assyrian Vertigo that reminds us it is indeed a musical work first and foremost, but soundtrack work certainly seems a logical avenue for such a talented and intimidating group of audio ...
Four books tagged as gateway to Assyrian culture Skokie Review By MIKE ISAACS misaacs@pioneerlocal.com January 16, 2012 3:08PM Four diverse books about Assyrian culture have been selected for this year's third annual Coming Together In Skokie program, which will take place from the end of January into March.
Sumerian gold jar, other relics returned to Iraq Reuters By Aseel Kami | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A 6500-year-old Sumerian gold jar, the head of a Sumerian battle axe and a stone from an Assyrian palace were among 45 relics returned to Iraq by Germany on Monday. The items were among thousands stolen from Iraq's ...
Skokie program spotlights Assyrian culture Skokie Review This year, the program shines its spotlight on the Assyrian culture but it also becomes a literary time machine of sorts because of its main book selection. That selection is “Gilgamesh,” not only a great epic poem but the first known recorded ...
Sumerian gold jar, other relics returned to Iraq Chicago Tribune BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A 6500-year-old Sumerian gold jar, the head of a Sumerian battle axe and a stone from an Assyrian palace were among 45 relics returned to Iraq by Germany on Monday. The items were among thousands stolen from Iraq's museums and ...
Assyrian Culture Rings In Program Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:30:38 -0800 | Niles West High School was overflowing with Assyrians Sunday as Coming Together In Skokie (CTIS) held its kick off event.
Four books tagged as gateway to Assyrian culture Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:25:47 -0800 | Exploring a culture that existed 3,500 years before the birth of Jesus Christ offers no shortage of literature from which to choose. The Coming Together in Skokie committee was aided in this daunting challenge by the leaders in the Assyrian community itself. The committee worked with various Assyrian cultural groups including the Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation, Assyrian Chaldean Syriac ...
Chaldeans launch community newspaper Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:44:00 -0800 | East County’s Chaldean community is turning to old-school media to create a new voice. It has started a newspaper. It's called “Betha Kaldaya,” or Chaldean House .
Coming Together in Skokie: Community unites around Assyrian culture Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:25:27 -0800 | Alen Takhsh admits that as a child, he didn’t take his father all too seriously when he would burst with pride about the importance of his Assyrian heritage. “Any word, any concept, anything I may have held in my hands, he would find a way to tell me how the Assyrians were behind that,” the Skokie lawyer recalled. “I mean that literally.” Takhsh said he tried to run away from these conversations ...
Six-week Assyrian culture program kicks off in Skokie Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:57:55 -0800 | The first of more than 30 events over the next six weeks celebrating Assyrian culture kicked off this year’s Coming Together In Skokie program Sunday at Niles West High School. The first event introduced the audience to Assyrian history and included some art, live entertainment and food. Through the middle of March, events ranging from book discussions to art exhibitions, from history seminars ...
Skokie program visits Assyrian culture for six weeks Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:23:18 -0800 | Skokie’s third installment of Coming Together In Skokie will shine its spotlight on the Assyrian culture with activities that begin at the end of the month and run for the next six weeks. In only three years, the program feels like a staple event in the village, a logical extension of other initiatives celebrating the enormous amount of diversity among Skokie’s population. Each year, the program ...
111-Year-Old Iraqi Chaldean Becomes Naturalized American Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:13:11 -0800 | Before passing away Warina Bashou’s husband wished her a long life. That wish came true beyond his greatest expectations. Bashou, 111, often tells others she hopes they live to be 100. “She always tells us ‘This is what my husband...
Sumerian gold jar, other relics returned to Iraq Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:23:40 -0800 | BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A 6,500-year-old Sumerian gold jar, the head of a Sumerian battle axe and a stone from an Assyrian palace were among 45 relics returned to Iraq by Germany on Monday. The items were among thousands stolen from Iraq's museums and archeological sites in the mayhem that followed the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003. ...
Zoning board nears decision on Paramus church plans Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:31:00 -0800 | The zoning board is nearing a decision on whether to approve plans to allow the Syriac Orthodox Church to build a cathedral and convert a former sanitarium on West Midland Avenue into a study center for visiting clergy.
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Assyria
\ã-'sir-é-ä\ n (1998)
1: an ancient empire of Ashur
2:
a democratic state in Bet-Nahren, Assyria (northern Iraq, northwestern
Iran, southeastern Turkey and eastern Syria.)
3: a democratic state that fosters the social and
political rights to all of its inhabitants irrespective of their religion,
race, or gender 4: a democratic
state that believes in the freedom of religion, conscience, language,
education and culture in faithfulness to the principles of the United
Nations Charter —
Atour synonym
Ethnicity, Religion, Language
»
Israeli, Jewish, Hebrew
»
Assyrian, Christian, Aramaic
»
Saudi Arabian, Muslim, Arabic
Assyrian
\ã-'sir-é-an\ adj or n (1998)
1: descendants of the ancient empire of Ashur
2: the Assyrians, although representing but one single
nation as the direct heirs of the ancient Assyrian Empire, are now
doctrinally divided, inter sese, into five principle ecclesiastically
designated religious sects with their corresponding hierarchies and
distinct church governments, namely, Church of the East, Chaldean,
Maronite, Syriac Orthodox and Syriac Catholic. These formal
divisions had their origin in the 5th century of the Christian Era.
No one can coherently understand the Assyrians as a whole until he can
distinguish that which is religion or church from that which is nation
-- a matter which is particularly difficult for the people from the
western world to understand; for in the East, by force of circumstances
beyond their control, religion has been made, from time immemorial,
virtually into a criterion of nationality.
3:
the Assyrians have been referred to as Aramaean, Aramaye, Ashuraya,
Ashureen, Ashuri, Ashuroyo, Assyrio-Chaldean, Aturaya, Chaldean, Chaldo,
ChaldoAssyrian, ChaldoAssyrio, Jacobite, Kaldany, Kaldu, Kasdu, Malabar,
Maronite, Maronaya, Nestorian, Nestornaye, Oromoye, Suraya, Syriac,
Syrian, Syriani, Suryoye, Suryoyo and Telkeffee. — Assyrianism
verb
Aramaic
\ar-é-'máik\
n (1998)
1: a Semitic language which became the lingua franca of
the Middle East during the ancient Assyrian empire.
2: has been referred to as Neo-Aramaic, Neo-Syriac, Classical
Syriac, Syriac, Suryoyo, Swadaya and Turoyo.