Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHICAGO — It was a monumental project with modest beginnings: a small group of scholars and some index cards. The plan was to explore a long-dead language ...

The Assyrian language is one of the oldest living Semitic languages and forms the cornerstone of the identity of the Assyrian people. In Iraq, the government of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI) has ...

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 ...

For 6775 years the Assyrians have been an indigenous population of Mesopotamia, with a continuous presence in what is today northern Iraq and the wider region. Our identity is not solely religious, ...

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 219 ...

Shabo Rhawi is clearly vexed during our first meeting. Sitting in the office of Elafskolan, the only school in Europe with a curriculum specifically designed for Assyrian children, the headmaster ...

If you come across a word or phrase in another language, a printed or online dictionary is usually a good place to look for help. If you're faced with a language that's long been dead, however, then ...

MR. KING'S modest little volume on the Assyrian language will, we believe, be welcomed by many who are not Assyriologists, because it contains a brief but lucid exposition of the principles upon which ...

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 ...

The Assyrians, an ethnic group indigenous to the Middle East, are a threatened minority today. Within the last two centuries they have withstood the horrors of strategic genocidal campaigns on their ...

Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, announces the formation of the Illinois Assyrian Caucus. Sen. Ram Villivalam, D-Chicago, announces the formation of the Illinois Assyrian Caucus. SPRINGFIELD — Illinois ...