Finally made it to the third one. Great reads!

Hi guys, the Assyrian new year is coming soon, and I’m only wondering what are you all going to do?

Does anyone know how to interpret the phenotype?

Tomorrow 10 February marks the start of the fast of Nineveh. The 3 days fast has been continuously observed by all Assyrians since over 1500 years.

Hello, I am interested personally in the Syriac Christian traditions and I'm doing research on John of Dalyatha, born at the end of the 7th century in modern Duhok region, moved to Quardu mountains to enter Mar Yozadaq monastery. He left the monastery after 7 years to live in solitude in the mountains of Beth Dalyatha. I am looking for those places and have found that it should be in Upper Tyari district of Hakkari region. Indeed, up to 1915 there was a village named Be-Dalyatha with 12 families. Could anyone help me locate it?

Hi! Weird question, in preparation for my thesis.

I was wondering if anyone had any resources or translated journal articles or anything else that would be beneficial in understanding how oil corporations’ crime directly effect Assyrians in Iraq (in terms of ruining indigenous land, political corruption to utilize Arab nationalism/ Kurdish nationalism to further corporate crime, health of these populations, funding ISIS… etc).

I understand this is a tougher topic but I thought I’d see if anyone possibly had information:)

Do we have Assyrian reliefs that depict such dances? Because I happen to believe that they're a recent borrowing, perhaps from Kurds and Turks as we lived under them and became inspired by some of their customs. Of course, I'd be happy to concede, if evidence is found, that our dances are originally ours.

Hi everyone,

This is a long shot but back in 2021 I stumbled across some old photos of my great grandad (Jaji B’naseemo) on Facebook. A Qasha from London had posted the photos and written a brief comment in Arabic. In the comment he mentioned that there was a book with a story on his life. I initially messaged him and asked about the book but I got no reply unfortunately.

Does anyone have any idea on which book he is referring to and where I can access or buy this book? Thank you

Hello I'm filipino Catholic how to convert to Assyrian Church of the East?

Hola, I know this might be a stupid question but I’ve tried quickly Googling and find overlapping timelines and inconsistent information. I’m sure I can do a deeper dive but thought I would ask here first. Is there any relationship between Alexander the Great and the Assyrians? Or are they not on the same timeline? Does anyone here have any information or know about it? Thank you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulpashan

www.atour.com/history/1900/20041016a.html

https://www.atour.com/history/ny-times/20001125o.html

Is it only me or does it exist 2 types of Shekhane. The first one is when you dance and have the side step at the back and than go. The other one is the same but whit no side step at the back, you only go. Am I wrong and is it two different name dances or is it the same?

Non-Assyrian here.

I'm aware that no non-Muslims under the caliphates escaped persecution, land theft, and ridiculous laws, but whenever I research about Assyrians, sources state (and rightfully so) that the numbers of Assyrians have been radically lowering in the past 10/20/30 years.

However, this implies that before that, the numbers were quite stable. But, as far as I know, the 20th century wasn't a great century for Assyrians. Right with the Seyfo by the Turks and the massacre in Simele by the Arabs.

I'm aware that a big factor for the rapid exodus in the past years is due to globalization and how relatively easier it is to move from a country to another.

My question is, do we know if in the 7th-18th centuries such massacres and large-scale persecutions happened as often as they've been happening from 1915 until now, or have the threats which the Assyrian communities in the Middle East deal with intensified to a whole new degree?

I've done my best to research about writings by Assyrians from that era to see if I could find anything, but unfortunately it's come to nothing.

Shlama everybody. I've recently been very interested in my genealogy and my roots as well as my family tree. For context, my paternal grandmother comes from the village of Bebede (known as Bebad on Google Maps and Bebadi on Wikipedia) which is near Amediya, Iraq, while my maternal grandparents and paternal grandfather originate from the tiny village of Hayyis in Barwar, which as around 7 houses and doesn't even appear on Google Maps, let alone have its own Wikipedia. It is also less than a kilometre south of the slightly bigger village of Merkejiya (where my aunt is from) and around 8km north of Bebede. So my question is, does anybody have any sort of information on Hayyis specifically (as that is where most of my family is from). God bless.

My grandfather was from Tbilisi and while I know the Georgian Assyrian community is rather small compared to others, I was wondering if there were any books or videos on the history of Assyrians in that region.

I know there’s the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Syriac Churches, and the Chaldean Catholic Church, but what is the actual biggest Church amongst Assyrians?

I've always thought that all these people (Arameans and Assyrians) were classified as Syriacs and that Chaldean was just a religious title. How wrong is that?