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*******************Cultural Festival 2001***********************

Sep-05-2001 at 01:36 PM (UTC+3 Nineveh, Assyria)

Assyrian-Aramean-Chaldean-Syriac

Cultural Festival 2001


Beloved Asyrian-Aramean-Chaldean-Syriac people,

it is well known that initial civilization started in Mesopotamia before thousands of years. Our ancestors, the Akkadeans, Assyrians, Arameans, Chaldeans and Babylonians developed in the land of two rivers "Bethnahrin (Mesopotamia)" a new era of history. On the part of this nation big empires, cities and glorious buildings were established in all directions of Bethnahrin. It was made to a social, scientific, cultural shelter and to a central station of international trade. After the fall of our last heartland capital in 539. BC., our nation was several times massacred, banished and suppressed and exploited because its religion and splitted up as well as in a religious way and separated in a geographical aspect. The economic power and also the social and cultural esteems of our people were destroyed. The massacres of 1843, 1924 and 1933 and the genocide of 1915 bloody knocked down the national consciousness and the longing of freedom and peace. In the treaty of Lausanne our homeland Bethnahrin was divided in four parts. Our people, which couldn't completely be exhaust on the part of the suppressors in Mesopotamia were absentminded in all four directions of the world. Today millions of our people lives out of their homeland, they are splitted in religious groups, cultural aspects and referred themselves with different names.

To broke the these narrow, religious and dogmatic way of thinking we organized last year a big festival which was visited by approximately eight thousand people. During these festival various aspects of our culture such as folklore, music, paintings and traditional clothes were available. All the participations from all over the world show they care for the national policy of unity. Without making differences between the names, regions and groups of our people we celebrated an unforgettable day.

Because of these fact, we invite all Assyrian-Aramean-Chaldean-Syriac to our 2nd cultural festival, which will take place on the 8th of September in the city of Leverkusen. Various music and folklore Groups, musicians and poets from all over the world will participate in the festival. For the first time a forgotten part of our people, the "malkoye" will also attend to these event. We hope that through this festival a new page for "freedom and unity" of our history for will turn over.

We are looking to welcome you !


Program:

Assyrian-Suryoyo Musicians:

From Germany: Babylonia, George Issa, George Saffar, Iskandar Sawme, Kamil Hanna

From Sweden: Sardabapal Assad (son of the late Gabriel Assad), Alexandra Moussa

From England: Pianist Jospeh Fraidoon Poles

From France: Sema Beth Zaya

From Iran: Violet Khosro Abadi, Lorraine Davis


International Musicians:

Music Group Boran from Turkey, Armenian Group, Kurdish Koma Hexil


Folklore: Gudo dBethnahrin (Germany) Gudo dZalge (Swiss) Assyrian Folklore Group from Denmark Syriac Malkoye Folklore Group (Germany)

International Folklore: Greece Dance Group Serbian Folklore Group

Exhibition from famous painters: Mishel Malke, Habib Gevriye; Shariar Foghani

Exhibition of manufactory of Bethnahrin

Poetry: Benyamen Malko (USA) Laho Sohdo (Sweden) Semun Beth Kascho Sargon Altin

Cinevison from Bahro Production

Theatre

Political Speeches and messages


Contact: 0049 - 175 33 13 567 (Nahir)

e-mail: cultural_ festival2001@h*tmail.com
www.beth-il.com

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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.

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