As a high school junior in Michigan, Gabrial Danial balances a rigorous AP curriculum with a passion for his Assyrian roots. In 2025, he turned a standard AP Seminar research project into a mission to educate himself and others on the preservation of his community’s history. …
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Review of a Collection of Naum Faiq’s Poems by Abdulmesih BarAbraham A new book under title „The Poetry of The Assyrian Awakening: THE POEMS OF NAUM FAIQ“ appeared recently by the publishing house Lulu.com. The book is edited by Yosef Bahdi, who transcribed and translated all poems into English originally written and/or published by Naum Faiq. At first glance two reasons make this book particularly unique: First, and as Prof. Shabo Talay notes in the foreword to the book, this is …
By: Sarah Behjet “People ask me all the time: ‘Where are you from?’” This line marked the beginning of Dr. Sabro Bengaro’s presentation before the Ashur Assyrian American Association of Connecticut. While the question posed to Dr. Bengaro is relatively innocuous, it holds layers of complexity beyond face value. A dedicated researcher, Dr. Sabro Bengaro has dedicated his academic career to studying the Assyrian Genocide and its harmful repercussions. At the crux of Dr. Bengaro’s recent Connecticut visit was the …
SEYFO Center Appoints Dr. Anzhela Mnatsakanyan as Armenia Ambassador The SEYFO Center is proud to announce that Dr. Anzhela Mnatsakanyan has been appointed the Assyrian Genocide Research Ambassador in the Republic of Armenia. Dr. Mnatsakanyan is an Assyrian–Armenian political scientist from Armenia. She holds a PhD in political science and an MA in international relations from Yerevan State University, as well as an advanced MA in European interdisciplinary studies from the College of Europe (Poland). Her research focuses on Russian studies, the Eastern …
IntroductionThis edited volume, The Genocide of the ChristianPopulations in the Ottoman Empire and Its Aftermath(1908–1923), by Taner Akçam, Theodosios Kyriakidis,and Kyriakos Chatzikyriakidis brings togetherinterdisciplinary scholarship examining the destruction ofArmenian, Greek, and Assyrian Christian communitiesduring the final decades of the Ottoman Empire and theearly Turkish Republic. Originating from a 2019international conference held at Aristotle University ofThessaloniki, the anthology situates the mass atrocitiesfaced by the non-Muslim Millets within the broaderprocess of imperial collapse and nation-state formation.By adopting a comparative framework, the editors …
(AINA) — The recent completion of Dr. Sabro Bengaro’s doctoral dissertation, Germany’s Islamic Strategy During the First World War and the Impact of the Jihad Declaration on the Assyrian Genocide of 1915, marks a significant milestone for both Assyrian scholarship and the global pursuit of recognition for the Seyfo genocide. For more than a century, the Assyrian experience of systematic destruction during World War I has been overshadowed in mainstream historiography, despite strong evidence of coordinated state policy, mass deportations, …