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.
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.
Iraq’s Assyrian Suyana parliamentary bloc has called for fair political representation in the formation of the country’s next federal government, warning against efforts to sideline the Assyrian vote through political bargaining or power-sharing arrangements that ignore election outcomes.
Assyrian-Swedish oncologist Robel Malki is drawing attention across Sweden with the release of his new book Den där sjukdomen: Om cancer och allt däromkring (“That Disease: About Cancer and Everything Around It”), a work aimed at breaking the silence and fear surrounding cancer.
An opinion piece published in 2025 in Newsweek titled “The Kurdification of Northern Iraq (Assyria)” put the spotlight on a long-standing and deeply sensitive debate about the status, rights, and future of the Assyrian people in northern Iraq.
Understanding the role that etiquette plays in regulating individual interactions and group cohesion can provide new insights into how and why cultures evolve.
Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, arrived in the city of Qamishli on April 30, 2026, marking the first visit to the Gozarto region after its liberation from PKK militants.
For decades, the field of Middle East studies has prided itself on decolonizing narratives and giving voice to the oppressed. However, a groundbreaking article by Dr. Arbella Bet-Shlimon in the Review of Middle East Studies shows how Assyrians have been systematically left behind.
The Court of Appeal in Genoa, Italy, has reformed the first-degree sentence for 75-year-old Salvatore Aldobrandi, reducing his penalty from life imprisonment to 14 years. The verdict marks a new chapter in a legal saga that has spanned nearly three decades and two countries.
Pope Leo XIV has officially granted "ecclesiastica communio" (ecclesial communion) to Mar Paulis III Nona, confirming him as the new Patriarch of Baghdad and head of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
In the autumn of 1915, as the Ottoman Empire was consumed by the fires of the Great War, a small hilltop town in the Tur Abdin region became the stage for one of the most remarkable military holdouts in modern history.
There is no physical trace left from the Mar Kozma Church located in Diyarbakır Alipaşa District. There are only two old photos of this building, which is stated to be built in 330.
