What I did not expect to find was something far more remarkable: a living ecosystem devoted to preserving the Syriac language ...

After Assyrian families in Skokie, Niles, Morton Grove and Lincolnwood spent nearly a decade advocating for an Assyrian language program at Niles Township High School District 219, the program, the ...

Vienna -- In the hushed world of Assyrian (Syriac) manuscripts, where the faint ink of saints, poets, and scholars still murmurs through the centuries, damage is more than decay; it is silence. A tear ...

A crowd erupted into cheers during a recent meeting of the District 219 Niles Township High School Board of Education after the board voted unanimously to add an Assyrian language and culture course ...

An Assyrian Women’s Center was opened for the first time in Midyat district. In addition, a new magazine called "Neshe" (Women) to be published trimonthly in Assyrian and Turkish is out. Assyrians’ ...

This article is written by Saman Daoud. It is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. These challenges ...

Australia, an affiliate of the Assyrian Aid Society in Northern Iraq, has for decades supported Assyrian villages through ...

It is not every day that the Assyrian language, the modern version of what Jesus Christ spoke, is heard in theatres, but "Iraq, But Funny," a satirical play showing at Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre, ...

This audio excerpt is taken from a video interview with Mr Sam Darmo of Assyrians for Justice, who spearheaded the Simele ...