MHALMOYTO

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and moderator at Suroyo TV  By the end of the 17th century most of the Mhalmayto Region had been forcibly Islamized. That is, with the exception of a few villages. The villages of Habses, Qeleth, Bnay Bil (bulbul) and Qalco d-Attho (Eski kale) escaped forced…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and moderator at Suroyo TV  The Islamization of the Mhalmayto region started with the Islamic conquests of Upper Mesopotamia at the end of the tenth century. Islamization continued under the successive alternating Persian, Arab, and Turkish powers. To a large extent, these powers Islamized the…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and TV moderator Suroyo TV  Most of the older towns and villages in the Mhalmayto region originally had Syriac names. Some villages still retain the names of their Christian saints today: Dayrozbino (Mor Zbino ܙܒܝܢܐ  ܡܪܝ  Acirli), kfarhewar, Mor Aday (ܡܪܝ ܐܕܝ , Baskavak), Kfarzota…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and TV moderator Suroyo TV  After the two previous articles in our series on the Mhalmayto region – The Mhalmoye (ܡܚܠܡ̈ܝܐ). Who are they? and The Mhalmoye (ܡܚܠܡ̈ܝܐ) and their conversion to Christianity – we now turn to the Mhalmoye who were of cultural, religious,…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and TV moderator for Suroyo TV  Like  many of the religions and cults of other peoples of Upper Mesopotamia, the Mhalmoye religion was one of worship to the sun god Shamash. In the vernacular Mhalmoyo language, the Arabic dialect of the Mhalmoye, the sun worshippers were called…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and TV moderator at Suroyo TV  From the days of the Assyrian Empire in late antiquity, Mhalmoyto (ܐܝ ܡܚܠܡܝܬܐ) is the name given to the western half of the administrative part of Tur Abdin, in current-day southeastern Turkey. The Mhalmoyto Region is located between the city of…

MUNICH, Germany – Fuat Shamun Oduncu, a professor of medicine at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and a specialist in hematology, oncology and palliative care, has received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his career-long work in cancer research, palliative medicine and medical ethics. German…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and TV moderator Suroyo TV  Speech delivered on November 2, 2019 at the International Hanna Dolabani Seminar, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Yuhanon Dolabani (27 September 1885 – 2 November 1969). Faculty of Literature, Syriac language and literature…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and TV moderator Suroyo TV  Early years – Mor Shamoun Zayte or St Simon of the Olives was born in 657 A.D. in the village of Hapses, Tur Abdin. His father Mandar was one of the village’s notables and the Mandar family house is still…

By Denho Bar Mourad-Özmen journalist and TV moderator Suroyo TV  Speech delivered on November 2, 2019 at the International Hanna Dolabani Seminar, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Yuhanon Dolabani (27 September 1885 – 2 November 1969). Faculty of Literature, Syriac language and literature…