HISTORY

In the heart of Kharput, a historic city in eastern Turkey, Ashur Yousef was born in 1858, destined to become an enduring symbol of the Assyrian struggle for freedom and dignity. Known as the “Sheikh of Assyrian Journalism” and its first martyr in modern history, Ashur was more than a…

GHOSTA, LEBANON — The town of Ghosta lies some 950 meters above sea level in Mount Lebanon Governate. In modern times it was the hometown of painter Daoud Corm (1852-1930), journalist and founder of Lebanon’s news agency Philippe Ziadeh (1909-2005), and final resting place for Jocelyne Khoueiry. In the 19th century,…

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Yesterday, 19 June, the Parliament of the Republic of Cyprus unanimously recognized 19 May as Pontic Greek Remembrance Day. The official designation comes after the introduction of a motion by MP Charalambos Theopemptou (Movement of Ecologists – Citizens’ Cooperation, KOSP) calling for institutional recognition of the genocide…

BATMAN, Turkey — After centuries of neglect, the historic Mor Quryaqos (St. Cyriacus) Monastery in the Bishiri Quarter of Batman, Turkey, reopened to the public on 15 June following a five-year restoration funded by Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The reopening was marked by a dedication service led by…

By Amine Jules Iskandar | President of the Syriac Maronite Union-Tur Levnon and Head of External Relations of the Universal Syriac Union Party During WWI, between 1914 and 1915, Lebanon witnessed a genocide, rarely ever spoken of. Unfortunately, our schools always taught that the famine that decimated about half of…

Farid Elias Nazha stands as a towering figure among the Syriacs, a visionary whose work illuminated the path of national and literary consciousness for the Syriac people. Born in 1894 in the Syrian city of Hemto (Hama), he began his education in the schools of the Syriac Church. However, a…

YEREVAN — In a moment of long-overdue recognition, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) has awarded the James Bryce Memorial Medal to Swedish historian David Gaunt, a leading figure in the study of genocidal campaigns against Christian minorities during the final years of the Ottoman Empire.  The award ceremony capped a…

One-hundred and ten years ago, more than 500 thousand Syriacs [Arameans–Assyrians–Chaldeans] in Beth Nahrin [Mesopotamia], were “cleansed” in the 1915 Sayfo Genocide. Subsequent policies of assimilation, both Islamization and Turkification, did the rest. Even though the Syriac people have been living through these genocidal policies and traumas for 110 years,…

GRONINGEN, Netherlands — An international research team from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has discovered that many of the Dead Sea Scrolls, containing ancient Jewish religious texts, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, are older than previously assumed. This discovery was made using an Artificial Intelligence model called ”Enoch”, the first fully machine learning-based…

In the historic city of Urhoy (Urfa / Edessa), the cradle of Syriac civilization, Abrohom Nuro was born in 1923, emerging as an iconic figure in modern Syriac culture. Hailing from an Orthodox Syriac family, Nuro dedicated his life to reviving his people’s language and heritage, leaving an indelible mark…