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Ahead of the International Day for Countering Hate Speech on June 18, we ask how Australia’s new hate speech laws aim to deal ...
Homer Abramian, a respected writer and intellectual within both the Assyrian and Persian communities, locally and ...
The Assyrian language is a dying tongue. Iraqi censuses do not count Assyrians as a category, because the government does not consider them a separate ethnicity.
Assyrian language courses are also taught at some schools in Canada, Europe and Australia. Sadly, the Assyrian/neo-Aramaic language is still not officially recognized in Turkey, where ...
Chicago's Assyrian community celebrated the approval of a first-ever accredited Assyrian language course as a victory ...
These discussions, according to Hassado, led to the joint approval of the proposal by both Nohadra and Salamanca universities ...
And now, 90 years later, the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary is officially complete — 21 volumes of Akkadian, a Semitic language (with several dialects, including Assyrian) that endured for 2,500 years.
Students at Niles North and Niles West High Schools may soon be the first in the country able to take an accredited Assyrian language and culture course if the Niles Township High School District ...
After nine decades, the University of Chicago's Assyrian Dictionary Project has finally been completed - opening an encyclopedic window into the day to day lives of people from one of the world's ...
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 ...