KAFNO

LONDON — A long-awaited book on the Christian genocide of Armenians, Syriacs, and Greeks in the latter days of the Ottoman Empire was released today by publisher Routledge. Co-editors Taner Akçam, Prof. of history and genocide scholar at UCLA, Theodosios Kyriakidis, researcher for Pontic studies in Thessaloniki, and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis,…

This article was originally published in French by Ici Beyrouth on 24 April 2022. The original can be found here. By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar Syriac Maronite Union-Tur Levnon Towards the end of the 19th century, with the appearance of the concept of the nation state, the Ottomans sought to homogenize the population…

Alert: article contains shocking images By Dr Amine Jules Iskandar Syriac Maronite Union–Tur Levnon Syriac language, Syriac culture, art and awareness were very much alive up till the beginning of the twentieth century. What happened next? During World War I, Lebanon witnessed a genocide, rarely ever spoken of. The events of…

By Amine Jules Iskandar / Translated by Mabelle Kreidi 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 the Lebanese population, was due to an “unfortunate coincidence of disparate factors”. According to…

The views expressed in this op-ed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of SyriacPress. By Dr Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union-Tur Levnon August 4, 2020. Helpless Beirut watched how an unparalleled explosion destroyed the Lebanese people’s wheat supply. On that…

Alert: article contains shocking images By Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar President of the Syriac Maronite Union – Tur Levnon Syriac language, Syriac culture, art and awareness were very much alive up till the beginning of the twentieth century. What happened next? During World War I, Lebanon witnessed a genocide, rarely…

BEIRUT – Kafno, in the Syriac language, means a famine. During the First World War, on Tur (Mount) Lebanon, the Christian population was intentionally starved to death – it became known as the “Kafno” or “Kafno Genocide”. During the years long forced starvation, an estimated 200,000 of Lebanon’s 400,000 people…

By Amine Jules Iskandar / Translated by Mabelle Kreidi 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 the Lebanese population, was due to an “unfortunate coincidence of disparate factors”. According to…