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A Weekly Online Publication of the ZENDA Assyrian Newsagency
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T H I S W E E K I N Z E N D A
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The Lighthouse...................... Joint Patriarchal
Statement
Good Morning Bet-Nahrain............ UN Withdraws
from Atrush Camp
US Ends Refugees Evacuation
Surfs Up............................ "continued
top-notch coverage"
Surfers Corner...................... ZENDA Needs
You!
News Digest......................... Rev. Barkho
Released From His Duties
Saddam's Son Attacked and Wounded
Missing Link to First Writing
Calendar of Events.................. No New Entries
Entracte............................ New Year's
Eve Party in Chicago
Intelligentsia...................... Classes, Lectures,
and Seminars
Assyrian Surfing Posts.............. Syriac Documents
Pump up the Volume.................. Astonished,
Confident, & Forced to
Back to the Future.................. Battle of
Lutibu
Malik Kambar of Jelu
Literatus........................... An Unsatisfied
Customer
This Week in History................ Dr. Abraham
Yousif
Bravo............................... Keristofer
Seryani
The Directory....................... News Sources
Bshena.............................. Glendale,
Philadelphia,and Sweden
Salute.............................. Mar Bawai,
Hannibal
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THE L I G H
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JOINT PATRIARCHAL STATEMENT
between
His Holiness Mar Rophael, I, BiDawid, Catholicos Patriarch,
His Holiness
Mar Dinkha, IV, Catholicos Patriarch, and their respective
delegations
concerning proposals for the re-establishment of full
ecclesial unity
between the Chaldean and Assyrian Churches of the East
1. On Friday, 29 November 1996, at the Chaldean
Chancery in Southfield,
Michigan (USA), the two Patriarchs of the Church of the
East held their
first ever official meeting to discuss prospects of unity
between their two
churches. Present with His Holiness Mar Dinkha, IV, was
H.E. Mar Bawai
Soro, Bishop of Seattle and General Secretary for CIRED,
and with His
Holiness Mar Rophael, I, BiDawid were H.E. Mar Ibrahim
Ibrahim, Chaldean Bishop of USA,
H.E. Mar Yohanan Zora, Bishop of Ahwaz, and, Rt. Rev.
Sarhad Jammo, Vicar
General of the Chaldean Diocese in USA who also was appointed
by both
Patriarchs to function as the common secretary for the
meeting. At the end
of this meeting, the two Patriarchs wished to sum up
their findings in the
following statement:
2. "Their Holiness, as heads of their two churches,
offer gratitude to
Almighty God the Father for granting them this historic
opportunity to meet
in a serene fraternal confidence and to discuss with
deep and mutual
understanding future prospects for a full and visible
ecclesial
reunification of their churches--the two branches of
the historically One
Church of the East. In a humble love to their holy
church-fathers and with
such a vision of unity in their minds, they pray, today,
to God to send His
Spirit of Holiness to help them achieve a complete rapprochement
between
their two churches. For, it is precisely through
such path that they find
themselves able to comply with our Lord's prayer for
the unity of his
disciples (Jn. 17:21), and, similarly to encourage all
Chaldeans and
Assyrians, their sons and daughters in Christ, to preserve
their Christian
faith and to maintain their glorious Assyrian-Chaldean
heritage.
3. In accordance with the Church of the East's canonical
practice, Their
Holiness wish to state that their task in this meeting
is to discuss and to
formulate proposals that shall be subsequently submitted
for the approval
by their two respective Holy Synods. They, along
with the other members of
their two delegations, have carefully deliberated on
a number of important
issues that they hope will prepare the way and, one day,
will lead their
churches to unity. The following are their proposals:
(i) The emphasis on, and exploration of, the several
common ecclesial and
cultural dimensions that, today, bind their two churches
and people
together, mainly, our mutual faith in our Lord Jesus
Christ, our common
patristic, liturgical and theological tradition, as well
as the belonging
to our same ancestry and culture, and the same thousands-of-years
history
of glory and suffering that inseparably unites the Assyrian-Chaldean
people.
(ii) The formation of a "Joint Commission for Unity" that
shall be
appointed respectively by both of their Holy Synods to
function as a task
force in order to formulate and carry out a comprehensive
ecclesial-educational plan through which both the Chaldean
and Assyrian
Churches of the East will be able to achieve the following
objectives:
a. The
development of a "Catechism of the Church of the East."
b. The
establishment of an educational ecclesial institution within the
Chicago-Detroit Region for the purpose of training future
priests, deacons
and catechists for both of the churches and to offer
continuous religious
educational programs for the active clergy in the whole
Church of the East.
c. The
articulation of a joint and common attitude toward emphasizing the
Aramaic mother tongue in liturgical usage and in cultural
endeavors by both
of the churches.
d. The
development of pastoral programs and literary projects as means of
ecclesial and cultural collaboration between parishes
and dioceses of the
two churches throughout the world.
4. In light of their discussions of these findings,
they have accordingly
commissioned H.E. Bishop Mar Bawai Soro and Rt. Rev.
Sarhad Jammo to
present to them, by 31st March 1997, a comprehensive
draft of a plan
outlining the structure and the functionality of the
above proposals, in
order for them to present this plan to both of their
Holy Synods for the
agreement.
5. Meanwhile, Their Holiness would ardently ask
all of their brothers
Archbishops, bishops, clergy and faithful, everywhere
they may be, to
continue their prayers and support for the success of
this noble cause that
shall restore their holy and ancient Church to its historic
fullness.
Their Holiness pray that all of us will offer our best
efforts to rally
behind them, in order to be able once again to transform
our beloved Church
of the East into an instrument of promoting the evangelical
virtues of
faith, hope and charity in the world, for the glory of
God's name and to
the benefit of all of our Assyrian-Chaldean people."
6. Signed on the 29th day of November 1996 at the
Chaldean Chancery in
Southfield, MI (USA).
Rt. Rev. Sarhad Jammo
Vicar General of the Chaldean Diocese in USA
and Secretary of the "Joint Patriarchal Meeting"
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UN WITHDRAWS FROM ATRUSH REFUGEE CAMP IN
NORTHERN IRAQ
(ZNUP: ANKARA) The United Nations has decided to withdraw
from the Turkish
Kurd refugee camp of Atrush in northern Iraq because
separatist PKK
guerrillas were effectively in control, a western diplomat
said in
Ankara Friday. Atrush camp has been providing food,
medicine and shelter
to about 14,000 refugees in northern Bet-Nahrain.
"We can no longer
provide support," spokeswoman Maki Shinohara said, "PKK
sympathizers are in
control of the camp committee." The Turkish government
has long complained
to the United Nations that the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers
Party, which has
been waging a separatist war in Turkey, has turned Atrush
camp into a base.
Under a U.S-brokered agreement of Oct. 31, the rival
Kurdish groups
controlling northern Iraq- the KDP and the Patriotic
Union of
Kurdistan-have pledged to "work with and support the
UNHCR for the
immediate and voluntary repatriation of Turkish citizens
in the Atrush
camp." Some 21,000 people have been killed since
the PKK launched its
campaign to set up an independent Kurdish state in northern
Bet-Nahrain in
1984.
U.S. ENDS EVACUATION OF AID WORKERS IN NORTHERN IRAQ
(ZNRU: Washington) The State Department said it had completed
the
evacuation of nearly 4,000 employees of aid agencies
from northern Iraq for
settlement in the United States. The last flight from
Turkey arrived Sunday
on the Pacific island of Guam, a U.S. territory. The
evacuees are being
housed at Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, and will be
considered for
asylum in the United States. Washington had already
evacuated to Guam some
2,700 Iraqi aid workers directly employed by the U.S.
government and Iraqi
opposition figures in fear of Baghdad's recent increased
influence in
northern Iraq. U.S. officials say some of those have
already reached the
continental United States. The latest evacuation
involved employees of
Western non-governmental organizations that were either
U.S.-funded or
U.S.-based. The evacuations began after the Kurdistan
Democratic Party
invited Iraqi forces into northern Bet-Nahrain region
at the end of August
to help it fight the rival Kurdish faction, PUK.
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"Please accept my warm wishes and appreciation for your
outstanding work in
the publication of ZENDA newsletter. I would like
to share with you and
your readers an important news items that could have
tremendous consequence
on the future of our people everywhere in the world.
A "Joint Patriarchal
Statement" that was the product of a long process of
dialogue and
communication between a number of concerned clergy and
prelates from both
the Assyrian and the Chaldean communities was issued
on November 29, 1996.
This statement came out in the context of a meeting that
took place in
Detroit, MI, during the Thanksgiving weekend between
Their Holinesses Mar
Dinkha, IV, and Mar Rophael, I, Bidaweed. They,
for the very first time in
almost 450 years, met, prayed and co-consecrated a Chaldean
church building
together. The event also included serious talks between
the two heads of
churches concerning cooperation and the ultimate unity
of their churches,
and therefore, of their people, as well. I hope
that the joint statement
of the two patriarchs will shed some light unto this
very important process
in our history."
Mar Bawai Soro
Bishop
Assyrian Church of the East
Rome, Italy
[See THE LIGHTHOUSE]
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"Congratulations to Zenda...for its continued top-notch
coverage of current
Assyrian subjects. I was especially appreciative
of the 'BRAVO' segment,
which provided a brief biography of a wonderful Assyrian
Philanthropist,
Mr. Benjamin S. Adams. I never had the privilege of meeting
this person,
and I very much regret it. It seems to me he harbored
some important
philosophy about the future direction for Assyrians overseas.
I would assume that the bequest left to the ASSYRIAN AID
SOCIETY will
predictably go to aid Assyrians in Iraq, and this is
as it should be.
However, I am more curious about the other bequests you
have listed. Can
you please provide any information about the intentions
or the agenda for
spending these funds by the other groups. So far,
I have only heard one
piece of news, and I would like to know if anyone could
verify it. I heard
that BET NAHRAIN ORGANIZATION has donated its $5,000
bequest to some
charitable organization. If so, this is laudable.
But the other groups
will be getting more than $5,000. Since these bequests
were made for
"education or welfare", it seems to me an ideal opportunity
for these
groups to pool the money together and to establish a
serious fund for
research grants. In the past, there have been awards
made to high school
students, or to college undergrads. I submit that
the greater need, and
the more proper use of such rare funds, is in support
of advanced Assyrian
scholarship. Specifically, I would propose that
the organizations who have
been fortunate enough to be named in this Will (excluding
Assyrian Aid
Society, whose funds should be used for welfare in Iraq)
should consider
organizing a small committee to map out a method for
establishing and
administering an Assyrian research program. Thanks
again for your
continued good coverage. Merry Christmas, and a successful
1997 to you, and
to all your readers."
Francis Sarguis
Santa Barbara, California
[Mr. Sarguis' proposal will be submitted to the Executive
Committee of the
Assyrian American National Federation and the Assyrian
United Organizations
of California and presented at the next National/Regional
Executive
Meetings (February 1997) of both organizations.
Mr. Wilfred Alkhas,
publisher of ZENDA and the current chairman of the AANF
Education
Committee, is currently preparing a proposal for the
establishment of the
Benjamin S. Adams Assyrian Studies Scholarship Fund.]
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"ShLAMA-LUKh MYAQRA RHhEEMA: B'ShURAYA, BAYIN D'MAQRIVIN
QUBAL-TtEYBUTA
RABTA MUTtUL SPAR-ZONA ShAPIRA D'MTtAYELI ILEE KUL ShABTA;
ChEBU! MIN BAR
TRE YARHhI BID AZIN L'ATRA D'ARGENTINA; MIN QAM HhAKMA
YARHhi L-BALEE-LA
IT-VA HhDA EGARTA MIN HhA ATURAYA (AV ATURETA) MIN ARGENTINA.
IN
MITHOYANTE-LA,ShADIRLEE L-MINYANA D-TELEPHONE AV ADDRESS
AV "e-mail" D-O
PARSUPA. ShLAME, HhUBA, W-ShAKARYATI MIN SAN FRANCISCO."
Dr. Robert Karoukian
San Francisco, California
ZENDA's Translation: Greetings, Respected Sir,
First of all, I would like
to acknowledge the receipt of your fine weekly newsletter,
bravo! In two
months I will be traveling to Argentina. A few
months ago, I remember,
there was a letter from an Assyrian in Argentina.
If possible, send me his
telephone number and email address. Peace, love,
and blessings from San
Francisco.
[The ZENDA reader to whom you are referring resides in
Uruguay.
Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge, of the thousands
of Assyrians
(Syriani's) whose parents emigrated to Argentina in the
early part of this
century, no one is receiving ZENDA via email. We hope
that you will be able
to expand our readership as you meet Assyrians in your
travels. It is
estimated that as many as 8,000 Assyrians live in the
greater cities of
Buenos Aires and Rio De Janeiro. Among such families
immigrating to
Argentina from the Middle East were the parents of the
current president of
this country, Carlos Menem.]
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"thank you for all the hard work you guys are doing at
'Zenda.' I love
reading your electronic magazine every week. God bless
all of you for all
of your efforts, and I want to wish you success always.
Thanks!"
Evans Alkhas
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"A couple of weeks ago, there was an issue regarding
the United Nations
leaving North Iraq and along with them were Kurds. I
wanted to know why
they were evacuating only the Kurds and not the Assyrians.
Why didn't we
try to help Assyrians leave. I am sure there are many
Assyrians who would
have taken the opportunity. Can someone respond to my
questions?"
Kelli Khoshaba
Milpitas, California
[At this time there are no reports of the evacuation of
any Assyrian
individuals from northern Bet-Nahrain. We suspect that
all evacuees are
officially identified as "Kurdish" and thus other minority
groups -
Assyrians, Turkomans, and Armenians- remain improperly
identified.]
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ZENDA NEEDS YOU!
We are often asked about our coverage of the lectures,
seminars, parties,
and the meetings taking place in the Assyrian communities
around the world.
"Why did you not inform us about Rabbie X's lecture
in Chicago or the
Halloween Party in San Diego," our readers may ask.
To quote a ZENDA staff
member "our readers are the eyes and ears of ZENDA."
In fact in reference
to STAFF of ZENDA we are indeed referring to 28 ZENDA
readers who prepare
the contents of our weekly newsletter. Yet not every
social event of nearly
200 Assyrian social, political, cultural and religious
organizations in 16
countries can be recorded unless more readers contribute
to the pages of
ZENDA. Join the growing family of ZENDA reporters
and write to us about
your community's activities. Your eyewitness reporting
of such events will
encourage others to organize similar activities and increase
public
awareness. Email your reports, comments, and news
to zenda@ix.netcom.com.
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ASSYRIAN PRIEST IN LOS
ANGELES RELEASED FROM PASTORAL DUTIES
(ZNDA: Los Angeles) Reverend Barkho of St. Mary's Church
in North Hollywood
was recently released from his pastoral duties in the
North Hollywood
Parish. According to a decree from Bishop Mar Aprim Khamis,
prelate-in-charge of the Parishes of the Assyrian Church
of the East in
California, Reverend Barkho was indefinitely removed
from his
ecclesiastical duties in California. At press time ZENDA
has not received
any confirmation of such reports as Rev. Barkho's possible
transfer to
Arizona. Moreover, rumors of Mar Aprim Khamis'
possible replacement of
Rev. Barkho with his relative, Rev. Kando of the Parish
in Orange County,
has enraged many parishioners in North Hollywood who
feel that they have
been victims of internal struggle for power in the church.
Rev. Barkho was
once before the focus of attention when a threat to his
life was made
public after his vandalized automobile was discovered
by the Los Angeles
Police. Several Los Angeles parishioners interviewed
for this article
accuse the heightened controversy on Bishop Mar Aprim
Khamis' attitude
against any further involvement of Rev. Barkho in the
local affairs of the
church. As reported by one ZENDA reader, the keys
to the newly-renovated
Parish in North Hollywood were replaced to prevent Rev.
Barkho's use of the
church building. Amidst all the controversy surrounding
Rev. Barkho's
release the Assyrian Church of the East has not commented
on its decision.
SADDAM'S SON, UDAY, ATTACKED BY MASKED GUNMEN
(ZNRU: Amman) On Thursday, December 12, three or four
attackers, hurling
hand grenades and firing machine guns, attacked President
Saddam Hussein's
eldest son Uday. The windscreen of Uday's armored car
had been shattered in
the attack in Baghdad's al-Mansour district. Uday, 32,
was shot and
wounded, and was then taken to Ibn Sina hospital.
The Islamic Dawa Party,
An Iran-based Iraqi opposition group, said it was behind
the assassination
attempt. Uday heads Iraq's National Olympic Committee
and is also head of
the Iraq Soccer Federation. He owns Iraq's most influential
newspaper
Babel. Uday holds a degree in engineering and military
studies.
President Saddam Hussein has two sons and three daughters.
A woman traveling in the same car as Uday was killed
in the attack and that
the Iraqis were looking into the possibility that another
woman may have
told the gunmen where Uday would be that evening. Another
previously
unknown Iraqi opposition group, the Iraq Salvation Movement,
has also
claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt.
General Wafik
Samarrai, a former head of Iraqi military intelligence
who now lives in
Damascus, said the Baghdad government had still not identified
the would-be
assassins.
MISSING LINK TO FIRST WRITING FOUND IN BET-NAHRAIN
(ZNRU: London) Some 10,000-year-old stone carvings from
Syria may represent
the missing link between cave drawings and modern writing,
French
researchers said last Thursday. The stones, taken from
the left bank of the
river Euphrates, carry ancient pictograms, New Scientist
magazine reported.
Danielle Stordeur of the Institute of Oriental Prehistory
near Nimes said
the pictograms were an intermediate form of communication
- more advanced
than stone-age cave drawings but not as advanced as real
writing. The flat,
oval rocks depict, among other things, an insect connected
to something
that looks like an owl, a snake, arrows and zigzags.
One also carries 34
crescent shapes with dots. The area is due to be flooded
next year
when the Tichrine dam is built. A French archaeologist
tells New Scientist
magazine that carvings on stones found in Syria may be
an important
"missing link" in the evolution of writing. The carvings
found 250 miles
northeast of Damascus are twice the age of Sumerian cuneiform,
the world's
oldest writing. New Scientist says decoding the messages
would require
further finds.
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Thru April 6
The Ain Ghazal Exhibit
Smithsonian Institute
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington D.C.
AAA of Southern CA (818) 506-7577
Jan 15
Ashur & Marduk: The State Gods of Assyria & Babylonia
Lecturer: G. Frame
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto
St. George campus
Toronto, Canada
8:00 p.m
Mar 12
Guardians of the Gate: The Assyrian Winged Colossi
Lecturer: A. Harrak
Near and Middle Eastern Civilization
University of Toronto
St. George campus
Toronto, Canada
8:00 p.m
April 9
Recent Excavations at Gordion, Turkey:
An Achaemenid Persian Imperial Town in Central Anatolia
Lecturer: T.C. Young, Jr.
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
8:00 p.m
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Dec 25
Christmas Party '96
Assyrian Church of the East
680 Minnesota Avenues
San Jose, California
Entertainers: Ogin & Ashur Bet-Sargis
Dec 31
CHICAGO
New Year's Eve Party
Assyrian American Ladies Association of Chicago
1618 w. Devon
Chicago, IL 60660
Entertainment: RAMSIN SHENO
All You can eat and drink!
Donation: Non Members $ 45.00
Members $ 35.00
Kids
$ 15.00
For table reservation, call Sonia Aghakan
(773) 271-5539 (H)/ (773)338-3922
SAN JOSE
New Year's Eve Party
Westin Hotel
Santa Clara, California
Entertainers: Sooren & Edmond
Donation: Non Members
$ 75.00
Members $ 65.00
Babysitting Service Available
LOS ANGELES
New Year's Eve Party
Hilton Hotel- LAX
Los Angeles, California
Entertainers: Ogen & Black Cats
Donation: $ 65.00
GERMANY
New Year's Eve Parties
Wiesbaden & Bremen
(More Info Next Week)
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Thursdays
Nineveh Choir under the direction of Maestro Nebu Issabey
BETA: 20000 Almaden Road
San Jose, California
8:00 pm
Fridays
Assyrian Educational & Cultural Club at
Modesto Junior College
1:00 pm
Founders Hall 108
Modesto, U.S.A.
Saturdays
Nisibis School
10:30-1:30
The Church of the East
Toronto, Canada
Nisibin School
10:00-12:00 pm
BETA: Assyrian American Association of San Jose
San Jose, California
SUNDAYS
Assyrian Boy Scouts
Assyrian American Association of Southern California
Assyrian Club
5901 Cahuenga Blvd
North Hollywood, California
9:30am to 12:30pm
Contact Sargon Gewargis @ fishtale@juno.com
(818) 891-3705 after 7:30 pm
Assyrian Student Union
California State University, Northridge
Assyrian American Association of Southern California
Assyrian Club
5901 Cahuenga Blvd
North Hollywood, California
6:00pm
Contact Sargon Gewargis @ fishtale@juno.com
(818) 891-3705 after 7:30 pm
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The Assyrian Academic Society in Chicago has done it
again. Visit this
week's suggested website and download some of the most
fascinating works of
Syriac literature available to modern scholars of early
Christian writings.
A most interesting example of such literary masterpieces
is Mar Abdisho's
"Paradise of Eden" :
Syriac Documents: http://www.wwa.com/~aas/pdf_form.html
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ENGLISH
ASSYRIAN
Astonished
dmee/raa
[M]
dmer/ta
[F]
Confident
khat/tee/ta
[M]
khat/te/ta
[F]
Forced (to do something) al/lee/sa
[M]
al/les/ta
[F]
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F = Feminine M = Masculine
P = Plural
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B A C K TO THE
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B.C. (858) Battle of Lutibu: Shalmaneser,
king of Assyria, meets the
combined forces of Samal, Hattina, Carchemish, and Adini,
a north Syrian
confederacy. The Assyrian army was forced to return and
Shalmaneser's
strategic routes to Asia Minor were henceforth lost.
<< The Ancient Near East, Hallo & Simpson >>
A.D. (1890) Malik Kambar d'Malik Warda is born in the
village of Zerini,
Jelu (northern Bet-Nahrain). Malik Kambar was the leader
of the Assyrian
Protectorate in northeastern Syria after World War I.
During the Second
World War he served as a general under the command of
emperor Helassi Lassi
of Ethiopia and faught against Mussolini's Italian army
in Africa.
<< The Assyrian National Question, Dadesho >>
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AN UNSATISFIED CUSTOMER IN THE ANCIENT ASSYRIA
The following is a correspondence of Ea-Nasir, a merchant
in the copper
trade. Here a customer complains to Ea-Nasir that he
has failed to supply
him with good quality copper:
"When you came, this is what you said: 'I will deliver
satisfactory ingots
to [you].' You told me this when you came, but
you haven't done it. You
put unsatisfactory ingots before my messenger, and you
said 'Take it or
leave it.' who am I that you treat me in such a
way, that you show
contempt for me in this way? This between gentlemen
like us!...Who is
there amongst...traders who has done anything like this
to me?"
<<Civilization Before Greece & Rome, Saggs"
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T H I S W E E K
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December 17, 1866: born, Dr. Abraham Yousif, in
Kharput, Turkey. Dr.
Yousif served as a medical physician in the U.S. Army,
and represented the
Assyrian nation in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
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KERISTOFER SERIANI
Congratulations to our Assyrian ZENDA reader, Keristofer
Seriani of
Turlock, California, who was recently elected student
body president of
Whittier College in southern California. Born in
Tehran, Iran,
Keristofer's term as vice-president will come to a closure
on January 1,
1997 when he will begin his new term as president.
Keristofer plans on receiving a Masters Degree in International
Relations
and a Juris Doctorate Degree in International Law.
"I hope to work with
NGOs in developing programs to develop human rights in
the Middle East,"
writes Keristofer. Mr. Seryani is also nominated
for the prestigious
Truman Scholarship and for two consecutive years has
been the recipient of
the Assyrian American National Federation's Students
Scholarship Award.
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ZNAD (Assyrian Democratic Organization)
ZNAM (Archeology Magazine)
ZNAP (Associated Press International)
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