As investment in Tur Abdin continues, ensuring quality and trust in the construction sector is becoming an increasingly important concern for Assyrians seeking to preserve and rebuild their historic villages.
The results of a study show that scribes did not always refine their clay, barely used fire to harden the texts, and that tablets made in the workshop coexisted with others brought from outside.
As investment in Tur Abdin continues, ensuring quality and trust in the construction sector is becoming an increasingly important concern for Assyrians seeking to preserve and rebuild their historic villages.
Swedish courts have sentenced a man to life imprisonment over the murder of Assyrian-Swedish rapper Gaboro, whose real name was Ninos Khouri, in a case that shocked both Sweden and the global Assyrian community.
Assyrians need to shift from a survival mindset to a rights based mindset to be able to harness their intrinsic collective power in a more effective way, writes Edward Oraha.
Assyrian-American entrepreneur Merian Odesho has transformed a personal challenge into a global success story, founding the rapidly growing beauty brand Bounce Curl, now recognised as a leading name in curly hair care worldwide.
In thousands of living rooms across Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries a quiet linguistic experiment is taking place. The subjects are the grandchildren of the Assyrian refugees who fled the Tur Abdin region in southeastern Turkey starting in the late 1970s.
A small clay tablet in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin tells the story of Taputi-Belatekallim, the world’s first recorded chemist and female perfumer, whose 3,200-year-old recipe has recently been brought back to life by modern science.
A New York-based law firm has announced it is investigating potential legal action on behalf of individuals allegedly harmed by extremist groups in the Middle East, according to a recent press release.
In the quiet, incense-filled sanctuaries of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, one of the oldest apostolic Christian churches in the world, the altar is not merely a piece of furniture. It is the Madbho: a mystical boundary where the physical world meets the divine.
Assyrian-American UFC fighter Beneil Dariush recently visited Sydney following his appearance at UFC Perth, spending time with the local Assyrian community through a series of meet-and-greet events and school visits.
