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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...................... Assyrian Aid Society-
Santa Clara
Good Morning Bet-Nahrain............ A New UN Humanitarian
Coordinator
Surfs Up............................ "our outbursts are
not balanced"
Surfers Corner...................... AANF Letter to the
State Dept
News Digest......................... Iraq's Battle Against
Archeo-Theft
Saddam's Second Son Attacked
News from Canada
Calendar of Events.................. Near Eastern Archeology:
May 4 & 5
Entracte............................ Kha b'Neesan Party
in San Jose
Intelligentsia...................... Classes and Seminars
Assyrian Surfing Posts.............. Why is a Circle
360 Degrees?
Pump up the Volume.................. To End & To
Begin
Back to the Future.................. Nabopolassar Restores
Babylon
The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
Literatus........................... Layard's First Impressions
This Week in History................ Sir Austin Layard
Bravo............................... Assyrian Soccer
Team Wins Nation's Cup
The Directory....................... News Sources
Bshena.............................. Chicago,California,Canada
& Poland
Salute.............................. Sargon, Vladimir,
Firas & Ashur
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THE L I G H
T H O U S E
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THE ASSYRIAN AID SOCIETY- SANTA CLARA COUNTY
CHAPTER: A REFLECTION
Over the last couple of years, I have served as the Vice
President in
my first year and as the President of the Santa Clara
Chapter of the
Assyrian Aid Society (SCCAAS) during my second year.
During this
period, I have experienced some highs, and also some
disappointments.
Now that I have decided to move on to other projects,
I would like to
share some personal reflections with Zenda readers, in
the hope it may
answer some questions which I have heard asked.
I should begin by saying that, no matter what shortcomings
may exist, I am a
strong believer in the mission of the Assyrian Aid Society.
I can't think
of a nobler goal for any Assyrian than to work to bring
aid and a measure of
comfort to our brothers and sisters in the homeland.
It is quite true that
A.A.S. is aimed at the needy Assyrians of north Iraq,
and that they comprise
only a small fraction of the general Assyrian population.
But it is
certainly better to do something modest than to do nothing
at all. The task
of assisting Assyrians in the main part of Iraq will
be gigantic, and it can
only happen when international impediments have been
removed.
During my tenure at the SCCAAS we staged a number of fund-raising
events outside the Assyrian community as I believe Assyrian
organizations
can and must not depend on support from our own community
simply because the
needs of our people are much greater than what our own
community can help
with. I also believe it is our duty to make the
need of the Assyrian people
known to all people and in this way raise funds from
government and
philanthropic agencies just like other ethnic groups
have been doing for
years in the U.S.
We participated in the Walkathon event. We got our group
accepted in the
"United Way", qualifying it to receive funds from that
organization. We
also had the opportunity for some pro-bono services of
a Public Relations
firm that would have given AAS-U.S. wide recognition
and open avenues of
fund raising only dreamed of before. Unfortunately due
to lack of support
from my superiors at the AAS the pro-bono offer was withdrawn
for lack of
input from AAS.
As the sponsoring organization, we also helped in the
Bay area visit of the
two Assyrian children who were brought to the US last
year for medical
treatment and a substantial fund raising was achieved
through the means of
the Assyrian Weekly Magazine T.V. program hosted by Mr.
George Maragulof,
and other programs hosted by the Assyrian Church of the
East and the
Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church of San Jose.
In the past two years, we
have managed to collect excess of $50,000, all of which
was of course
delivered to A.A.S. headquarters in San Francisco.
We also attempted to establish a well designed system
of communication,
exchange and sharing of information within the chapters,
with the Assyrian
people and non-Assyrians by means of leaflets, use of
media resources and
involvement in non-Assyrian events to capture a larger
scale of audience and
supporters. For this to be successful it required
accurate and timely
information and resources to be used to accomplish these
goals, sadly we
were the only one who was willing to spend the time and
effort to make this
possible, others were too busy with life and work responsibilities,
as if we
did not have a life nor families of our own!
Throughout my tenure, I was called upon to defend A.A.S.
from various
criticisms, both internal and external. Now that
I am no longer speaking
for A.A.S., I would like to address some of the comments
which were made,
particularly about the A.A.S. operation in this country.
It is my hope that
these comments will be seen as constructive criticism.
There have been repeated questions about the final destination
of A.A.S.
funds. Some Assyrians feel that there has not been enough
accountability.
Personally, I have no question that the funds we have
raised have been
substantially transferred to north Iraq in aid of our
people. At the same
time, I agree with those who complain about the lack
of specificity when
accounting for these funds. The people are entitled to
know.
At a recent A.A.S. program in San Jose, when this question
was asked,there
were a couple of unsatisfactory answers. Mr. Narsai
David, who heads the
A.A.S., provided some very general statements to the
effect that A.A.S.
funds have enabled the building of medical clinics, housing,
schools and
roads; assistance to farmers; the publication of books;
and delivery of
medicines and direct cash assistance. Unfortunately,
this is all vague
information, and it is also stale information.
We have heard it all before,
and it no longer provides incentive or inspiration to
potential AAS volunteers.
A second answer was provided by Dr. Lincoln Malik, the
Vice President
and a key player in the A.A.S. Dr. Malik said it
is not always practical to
have receipts for purchases in north Iraq. While
one could relate to this,
it was not helpful that in his tone Dr. Malik seemed
peeved that the
question should even be asked. I believe that A.A.S.
is best served if its
leader shows patience and empathy when good faith questions
are asked.
There have been a number of questions raised by current
or potential
A.A.S. volunteers, concerning the political situation
in north Iraq.
People rightfully want to know if any aid they might
provide would be of any
practical use in the current turmoil. There seems
to be confusion as to who
is in charge, and whether Assyrians in north Iraq any
longer have the luxury
of taking advantage of any funds we might provide them.
In my opinion, aid to these Assyrians is as needed as
ever. However, it
would have been useful for Dr. Malik or Mr. David to
address this issue very
specifically, and to provide the audience a sensible
summary of the current
situation.
In my extended efforts for A.A.S., I have noticed also
that there is almost
no information flow from the top to the bottom.
As much as I attempted to
keep the communication line open with my superiors so
that I can rightfully
answer questions of the Assyrians in the Bay Area,I found
that I was always
kept in the dark, even though presumably my position
was an important one
as the President of the Chapter, a member of the Executive
Board, a member
of the Board of Directors as well as the liaison between
AAS chapters.
For this I must lay the blame on Dr. Malik, who is the
one with information
and answers in A.A.S. I completely understand the tireless
efforts exerted
by Dr. Malik to advance the interests of our people via
the work of the
A.A.S and A.D.M. His time is no doubt quite limited,
and his
responsibilities are many. But what is wrong with
delegating the task of
public information, which I willingly volunteered for,
and the task of
informing your own lieutenants, so that they are not
working in the dark. I
was really amazed, for example, to learn at this meeting
that more than a
year before, the US and the UN officially recognized
"AAS as an
International Aid Agency" (Dr. Malik). Does it not seem
unfortunate that
such useful information would not have been transmitted
to those of us
working in the trenches?
At this same meeting, both Mr. Narsai David and
Dr. Alexander Malik
(the medical aid project director) expressed disappointment
that
the SCCAAS had not been more productive. The fact
is that along with
my local committee, we have made every conceivable effort
to arouse
interest and support. Considering we must all work
full-time to support our
families, we believe that we have made a heroic effort.
Regardless of any
disappointment a leader may feel, it ill serves the objectives
of his
organization to read them the riot act and to even scold
them for their
performance. This is petty behavior not likely
to inspire others to the
battle line.
Questions were also raised about the lack of visible support
from the
Assyrian American Association in San Jose. The lack of
participation by that
group is not for our lack of trying. The SCCAAS's invitation
to work
together with the San Jose group has yet to generate
any response. Mr. John
Youkhanna, AAS Central Valley Director attempted to shift
the blame and
responsibility to the Assyrian public and announced that
since they
(executive board members) all live far from the San Jose
area, it is up to
the Assyrian people to take on responsibilities of insuring
the success of AAS.
My reply to that is, No, Mr. Youkhana, it is your responsibility
as an
officer of AAS to take the time to meet with people and
to insure that
projects are organized and executed properly and successfully.
One should
not take on a title of a job unless that one is able
to spend the time, is
willing and has the talent and knowledge to perform and
be productive.
During my comments at this meeting I took it upon my own
to inform
the Assyrian public, that I was no longer a member of
the Assyrian
Aid Society since I had resigned as of August of 1996.
This information had
not been made known to the Assyrians in the Bay Area
before nor during this
meeting. My resignation was due to the lack
of response, communication and
information from my superiors, a condition that I cannot
tolerate and I
cannot continue my role and responsibilities as a president
of a chapter.
They are satisfied with their accomplishments to this
point, while I wanted
to go on farther and stronger ahead.
Our people in Iraq badly need our assistance. It is my
hope that we who are
more fortunate in the West will take our responsibility
more seriously than
we have in the past. It is also my hope that the leaders
of Assyrian
organizations who claim that they want to help will set
aside their egos and
strive to find the most effective ways to inspire their
volunteer workers.
Esha Tamras
San Jose, California
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G O O D
M O R N I N G B
E T - N A H R A I N
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NORTHERN BET-NAHRAIN
HAS A NEW UN HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR
(ZNRU: New York) Staffan de Mistura, a veteran U.N.
official for relief
assistance in world trouble spots, was named on Thursday
as the new
coordinator for humanitarian aid in Iraq. He is expected
to take up his new
post this week, replacing Gualtiero Gulcheri of Italy,
who left Baghdad on
Monday. De Mistura, a Swede, is to supervise the complex
oil-for-food
program in Iraq that involves U.N. monitors checking
on food, medicine and
other goods for the Iraqi people. Under the program,
Iraq is permitted to
sell $2 billion worth of oil over six months to buy needed
supplies for its
people, who have suffered under trade sanctions since
August 1990. The first
food deliveries to Iraq are expected shortly. An official
of the U.N.
Children's Fund UNICEF, Mistura was the chief U.N. humanitarian
coordinator
in northern Iraq in mid-1991 when Kurds fled to Turkey
to escape Iraqi
bombardments. He served in Somalia in 1992-1994, supervising
all U.N.
humanitarian aid there. Before that he was in Dubrovnik
when that city was
under siege during Croatia's war of independence from
Yugoslavia. During the
Ethiopian famine in 1984-5, he coordinated air drops
of food by Western and
Eastern bloc countries -- a major feat during the Cold
War. De Mistura's
languages include Arabic.
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S U R F S
U P !
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"with respect to our reaction to the kurdish atrocities
against Assyrians, I
think we are on the right track to react to such news
the way we are doing
and should indeed continue with such outcry/outburst
of anger and
concern...as a matter of fact there should be no limits
to our reaction
towards atrocities committed against our people.
It concerns me however, when our outbursts are not balanced....not
so
rampant in reaction towards the systematic and brutal
murders committed
against us by Arabs.
Arab/Baath sympathizers are very much excited about this
news and all of a
sudden showing much 'concern' about Assyrians being killed
! the reasons
are obvious. Outcries such as this, towards anyone but
Arabs, is always
welcome and encouraged by Arabs (& Baath Sympathizers)
as it diffuses Arab
atrocities against us and indeed defocus our struggle.
Ashur Bet-Shliemoun
California
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"Every week I receive the Zenda magazine and I want to
thank you for that...
Thanks and keep up the good work!"
Peter de Rooij
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"Reading ZENDA has become a Monday morning ritual with
me, every Monday
morning I walk to my office in downtown Chicago, with
a cup of coffee in my
hand, and rush to my computer, only to find a new electronic
copy of ZENDA
waiting for me. You guys make my Monday morning smoother,
that's for sure..."
Sargon B. Yalda
Chicago, Illinois
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"I would like to bring to your attention a fact that was
not mentioned
in the article posted on Zenda this last Monday.
It was mentioned that 'at
one point Mr. Ladimer Lachin of Zowaa and his party members
withdrew from
the assembly at the community hall and were importuned
to return later in
the evening.' What ZENDA forgot to mention was
that when Mr. Ladimer
Lachin, Representative of Zowaa in CA, asked the guest
speakers a question,
Mr. Carlo Ganjeh rudely interrupted him and told him
that he can save his
questions for Modesto, or in other word he was not being
allowed to ask
questions like everyone else. I would like to bring to
your attention that
the meeting was suppose to be an open discussion rally.
At that point Mr.
Lachin thanked Carlo and walked out of the meeting.
Close to 30 people,
Zowaa members and supportive of Mr. Lachin, walked out
of the meeting also.
Meanwhile, an attendee turned to Mr. Sargon Yalda, the
new president of the
Assyrian American Association of San Jose, and told him
that what happened
was not right and they should go back and bring those
people back into the
meeting. Mr. Yalda went out and tried to bring
those people back to the
meeting. At beginning Ladimer and his supporters
requested that Carlo to
step down as Moderator of the meeting and later they
requested an official
apology from him. Upon return to the meeting, Carlo
officially apologized
to Ladimer and his supporters. This is what happened.
I am not a Zowaa
member and I am not a member of any other group.
As an Assyrian I do not
wish to see only half of a truth on the line. What
Carlo did was rude and
uncalled for. I wonder what prompted him to try
to stop Ladimer from asking
questions? I wonder."
Lena Mushell
San Jose, California
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"I want to thank you for sending me the Zenda issue I
had missed! I was
especially interested in it since I thought it would
have some comments on
my father's story that had been published, and, in fact,
it has Lena
Mushell's letter. My father was a very young boy when
he left Zerini. When I
ask him about his life at that time he says he doesn't
remember events or
persons too well. He is ninety years old and his memory
is failing him a
little now. It is a good thing my mother wrote all that
while he still
remembered his early life."
Gladys Warda
Uruguay
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"i would like you to send me your publication because
i bring it up in my
assyrian students union meeting and inform what other
assyrians are doing
outside of los angeles. i will also inform you on the
activities that occur
within the new assyrian centers committee and other
happenings within the
city of los angeles and i also want to get an idea of
how to set up an
assyrian students home page with the articles that you
have. please if
possible please add me to your subscription for me to
enjoy the assyrian
brotherhood that is expressed through cyberspace.
love, peace and happiness
to all my assyrians out there."
Sargon Gewargis
Los Angeles
[Sargon is the former president of the Assyrian Students
Club at California
State University at Northridge and has helped organize
the current Assyrian
Boy Scouts of the Assyrian American Association of Southern
California.]
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[To our readers in La Trobe University in Australia who
had requested an
online picture of Queen Semiramis: Please see
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jatou/sham.gif, complements
of Assyria Online]
PLANETS MARDUK AND TIAMAT MUST BE ALIGNED
[While preparing this issue of ZENDA we noticed an interesting
consonance:
this is the 3rd issue of the 3rd volume of our
weekly, online newsletter
being published on the 3rd day of the 3rd month
of 1997...Anything to
amuse oneself on a cheerless Sunday night - one might
think.]
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S U R F E R S
C O R N E R
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ZENDA readers are invited to respond to the following
request(s) by either
directly writing to the author or sending a reply to
ZENDA.
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Fellow Assyrian Human Rights Advocates
On Saturday, February 22, 1997, Mr. Sargon Lewie, president
of the Assyrian
American National Federation, met with a number of Assyrians
and formulated
a letter to be sent to the US Departments of State. The
letter, reproduced
below, will also be sent to the President of the United
States and every
member of the US Congress and Senate. In addition,
follow-up phone calls
and visits to the State Department, the Senate and Congress
have been
planned in March of this year. At this meeting
on Saturday, it was resolved
that a number of subsequent meeting would be held to
further plan ways to
peaceful combat aggression against Assyrian in Iraq.
After you read the
letter below, we ask that you support this effort by
your own letter to the
State Department and your own Senator and Congressman/woman.
We also ask
that you contact the Kurdistan Democratic Party (headed
by Mas'ud Barazani,
whose authority is now predominant in the area of north
Iraq), and express
your outrage at the manner in which Assyrians are being
treated in Iraq.
The telephone number of the KDP in Washington, D.C. is
(202) 331-9506. The
fax number is (202) 331-9506. Please, for the sake of
the Assyrians in our
homeland, whose lives are in danger constantly, we call
upon you to use
your writing skills and love of humanity to express your
disapproval of
what's happened and demand that justice be done.
Thank you.
Assyrian International News Agency (AINA)
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D I G E S T
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IRAQ BATTLES AGAINST ARCHEOLOGICAL THEFT
(ZNRU: Baghdad) Excavations in the ruins of the ancient
Assyrian capital Dur
Shurrukin in 1993 led to the discovery in Iraq of a colossal
statue of a
winged bull with the head of a bearded man. Unable to
transport and preserve
the nearly 4,000 year-old monster, Iraqi archaeologists
reburied it by
building a mud brick wall round it and covering it with
earth and straw. The
bull was excavated again this year -- this time not by
experts, but by a new
kind of Iraqi robber. They hacked off its head, the most
precious part in
the Assyrian motif, leaving its now worthless torso behind.
The campaign
against such robberies has cost Iraq more than 400,000
million dinars in
1996 (about $500,000). This was paid as a reward to the
police for catching
smuggled artifacts and to Iraqis returning archaeological
items. More than
45,000 artifacts, some of them unique to the history
of Bet-Nahrain, have
been recovered but many more were still missing. A cylinder
seal of a
precious stone, a common Mesopotamian artifact available
in almost all
ancient mounds in Iraq, could fetch thousands of dollars
abroad. One of the
most significant items retrieved was a slab of black
diorite inscribed with
cuneiform writing. "It is the biography of one of the
famous kings of
Babylonia in the second millennium B.C.. It tells the
story of King Libbat
Ishtar (heart of Ishtar). It is relatively easy for thieves
to dig up an
ancient mound in Iraq. Finds
usually lie close to the surface and digging can be undertaken
with shovels
and spades.
SADDAM'S SECOND
SON ATTACKED DURING AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
(ZNUP: Damascus) President Saddam Hussein's second son,
Qusay, has survived
an assassination bid, but his three bodyguards were killed.
Unidentified
gunmen left the president's eldest son Uday seriously
wounded and partly
paralyzed in a Baghdad suburb attack on Dec. 11.
Both of the president's
sons, Uday and Qusay, have major responsibilities in
the government's
security forces. Iraqi exiles have speculated that the
Uday assassination
bid could be tied to a violent family feud.
NEWS FROM CANADA
(ZNDA: Ontario) The second issue of THE HOPE newspaper,
produced by
Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party, was recently send out to
subscribers, free of
charge. The newspaper covers news and information, and
includes articles on
the Assyrian culture and general interest. Printed in
tabloid size, mostly
in Assyrian and English, it is distributed among the
Assyrian communities of
Chicago, Detroit, California, and Toronto.To receive
your copy contact the
publisher at:
THE HOPE newspaper
14 Elderridge Crt.
Stoney-Creek, ON
L8J 3R6
Tel. (905) 279-7347 - Fax (905) 573-1478
e-mail: ashour@ican.net
(ZNDA: Ontario) Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party has completed
the publication
of the first semi-annual issue of the Assyrian Directory
of Canada. It
consist of 220 pages of information divided into four
sections. The first
section, the Assyrian Business Directory, has over 120
pages of graphic
advertisements of all Assyrian businesses in Canada.
The Assyrian
Residential Directory lists over 980 Assyrian names with
complete address
and telephone information. The third section, Assyrian
Institutions, covers
all Assyrian organizations, Assyrian community centers,
churches, internet
locations, Assyrian language schools, Assyrian media
in Canada. The last
section is comprised of several General Articles in English
and Assyrian.
The next edition will appear on July 2, 1997. For more
information contact
Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party representatives in your
area or call, fax or
e-mail:
Tel. (905) 318-8283 - Fax (905) 573-1478 - E-Mail: ashour@ican.net
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Thru Mar 10
Art & Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British
Museum
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
Admission: $10.00
Thru Apr 6 The Ain Ghazal
Exhibit
Smithsonian Institute
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington D.C.
AAA of Southern CA (818) 506-7577
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
May 4
"Near Eastern Archeology"
Speaker: Dr. Thomas E. Levy
University of California, San Diago
Location: Westchester, New York
Call Hugo Vandenwall Bake (914) 472-0874
May 5
"Near Eastern Archeology"
Speaker: Dr. Thomas E. Levy
University of California, San Diago
Location: Tufts University, Boston
Call Jodi Magness (617) 628-5000 x2680
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classicsDept/aia.html
May 24
A C N C '97
The Third Assyrian Community Networking Conference
The Assyrian State Convention of California
Turlock, California
Organized by The Assyrian Community Networking Society
Aug 26-Sept 2
Assyrian American National Convention
Hyatt Regency Dearborn
Fairlane Town Center
Detroit, Michigan
All Single,double,triple,quad rooms: $95 per day
Reservations: (313) 982-6880
Reservations must be made by August 7.
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Mar 21
Kha b'Neesan Cocktail Dance Party
Assyrian American Association of San Jose
San Jose Athletic Club
196 North 3rd Street (408) 292-1281
7:30 pm
Donation: $30.00
"Hot Hord d'oevres!"
No tickets sold at the door/no reservations
For tickets call:
Caroline Nasseri (408) 268-7990
Ellen Sayad
(408) 997-0392
Jaleh Atniel
(408) 927-8881
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The Assyrian Athletic Club, under new committee, have
started a
children Soccer development
program, for children ages 7-14 years. The
program takes place Monday nights
from 7:45 - 9:45 p.m. at Weber Park
Gym. on Western Ave (by Devon
St.) in Chicago, all are welcome.
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
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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A S S
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S T S
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Why is a circle 360 degrees? Because ancient Bet-Nahranaye
(Mesopotamians)
said so. Check out this week's featured website:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/origin_degrees.html
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P U M P UP THE V O L U
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English Modern Assyrian
To End
khtam/ta (tha) [F]
Ana bekh/ta/mo/wan swaa/dee.
[I am finishing my talk].
To begin
shaa/re/ta (tha) [F]
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F = Feminine M = Masculine
P = Plural
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B A C K TO THE
F U T U R E
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B.C. (625) Nabopolassar, the first ruler of the neo-Babylonian
(Chaldean)
Dynasty, begins the restoration of Babylon in an effort
to bring the city to
its former glory.
<< The Ishtar Gate, Verlag Philipp von Zabern >>
A.D. (Jan 24, 1898) The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft is
established to
finance the Babylonian excavation and other scientific
enterprises. An
excavation team was sent to Babylon in the same year.
<<The Ishtar Gate, Verlag Philipp von Zabern >>
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SIR HENRY AUSTIN LAYARD'S FIRST IMPRESSION
OF NORTHERN BET-NAHRAIN
The scene around is worthy of the ruin he is contemplating;
desolation meets
desolation; a feeling of awe succeeds to wonder; for
there is nothing to
relieve the mind, to lead to hope or to tell what has
gone by. These huge
mounds of Assyria made a deeper impression on me, gave
rise to more serious
thoughts and more earnest reflection, than the temples
o Balbec, and the
theatres of Ionia.
<< Foundations in the Dust, Seton Lloyd >>
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T H I S W E E K
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March 5, 1817: born, Sir Henry Austin Layard, British
archeologist who
discovered the ruins of northern Bet-Nahrain.
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ASSYRIAN SOCCER TEAM WINS NATION'S CUP
(ZNDA: Chicago) Team Assyria, majority of whose members
are represented by
the players of the Winged Bull of Chicago has won the
Nation's Cup of
Soccer. It defeated Mexico, Albania and Romania in a
very exciting
tournament that took place last month.
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