ZENDA - January 11, 2000

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Z I N D A M = A G A Z I N=20 E

Volume=20 V = =20 Issue 38
Kanoon=20 II 11,=20 6749 &nb= sp; &nbs= p; = ; = &= nbsp; &n= bsp; =20 January 11, 2000

T H I S = W E E=20 K I N Z I N D=20 A

The=20 Lighthouse	Naom Faik Assyrian Book Fund at Columbia=20 University
Good=20 Morning Bet-Nahrain	Assyrian Business Owner Killed in Arbil = Maronite Nun Killed by Islamic Militants in = Beirut
News=20 Digest	Illinois Congressman to Help Form Assyrian = Caucus=20 Heads of Orthodox Christian Churches Gather in = Jerusalem Jordan Opens Jesus' Baptismal = Site The Metropolitan Museum Re-Opens = Near=20 Eastern Gallery
Surfs=20 Up	"Yimma Atur must be proud = of=20 you"
Surfers=20 Corner	The Untold Holocaust Proposal=20 to Form Assyrian Physicians Assembly A = University=20 Seminar on Coptic Studies
Assyrian=20 Surfing Posts	Your Own ASSYRIAN.COM Email and Internet=20 Connection Professor Simo Parpolla's Sons of God Mothers and = Daughters in Early Syriac Hagiography Download=20 Church of the East Calendar 2000 in Adobe PDF Download Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church 2000 = Calendar=20 Is the Theology of the Church of the East=20 Nestorian?
Literatus	Beneath the Watery Deep
Bravo	Union of the Assyrian Students and Youth = Election=20 Results
Milestones	Henry = Grzelak
Pump=20 Up the Volume	Grudge & Hateful
Back=20 to the Future	The Library at Sippar & Malik = Shalita
This=20 Week in History	Lord Curzon
Calendar=20 of Events	January = 2000

All blue=20 links throughout this issue are hyperlinks to other sections on this = page or=20 featured websites.=20

THE LIGHTHOUSE=20

NAOUM FAIK ASSYRIAN BOOK FUND = AT COLUMBIA=20 UNIVERSITY

The Assyrian community living = in the New=20 York and New Jersey area constitutes one of the oldest immigrant = communities=20 from the Middle East. Relocating from Ottoman lands and Iran to = Manhattan,=20 Yorkers, and Bergen County, New Jersey, the flow of immigrants began = during the=20 late 19th century with young men who came to study, and expanded to = include=20 those who came to work, often temporarily, in order to return with funds = to=20 better their family circumstances in the Middle East. From 1914 = onward the=20 immigrants were refugees.=20

Events around World War I = proved=20 devastating to the Assyrians in Ottoman lands. As Christians they = suffered=20 massacre and pillage in eastern Turkey and when Turkish armies marched = into=20 northern Iran, the Assyrian community there likewise became a victim of=20 war. Up to two thirds of the entire Assyrian population died or=20 disappeared. A limited number found means to flee to Europe and = the United=20 States where they joined existing communities along the East=20 Coast. =

Naoum Faik (1868-1930) was a = leading=20 Assyrian intellectual and patriot of the new Assyrian renaissance = generation=20 crippled by the Massacre of Assyrians during World War I. Born in=20 Diyarbeker with the full given name of Naoum bin Elias bin Ya'qub Balakh = (Palek), he became an educator, publisher of the first western Syriac=20 periodical, Kovkab al-Sharq (Star of the East), and a poet in Suroyo = Assyrian=20 and Arabic. Among his poems is the Lebanese National Anthem. = Having=20 experienced previous attacks on Anatolian Christians living under the = Ottomans,=20 at the age of forty-four, Faik fled to the United States. In = northern New=20 Jersey he became a key member of the Assyrian community as it struggled = to=20 maintain itself in a foreign cultural setting. Under the name N.E. = Palek,=20 he continued publishing his most widely read periodical, Bet Nahrain - = "land=20 between two rivers" - from 1916 until his death.=20

*******The Naoum Faik Assyrian Book Fund is a = library=20 endowment fund intended for the use of Columbia University in building = and=20 maintaining a collection of materials related to Assyrian history and = culture=20 during the Christian era. While it is expected that the University = will=20 collect materials in all necessary languages, particular attention is = directed=20 to Assyrian language materials, including = manuscripts.=20

Every year, the University is = requested to=20 deliver a statement regarding the Assyrian holdings to the Assyrian Academic Society which will = publish such=20 information in its journal.=20

Regular meetings about the Fund = are=20 undertaken by a three member ex-officio committee composed of the head = of the=20 Middle East Division of Columbia Libraries, a member of the faculty from = the=20 Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, and a member of = the=20 Assyrian community.=20

If you or your family have = books,=20 photographs, documents such as birth, marriage, citizenship or other = papers,=20 consider donating them to the Columbia collection. =
Make a generous contribution to the Faik = Fund so=20 that there will be adequate money available to buy, maintain, and = preserve the=20 record of our past for the sake of our future.=20

All donations to the Naoum Faik = Assyrian=20 Book Fund are fully tax-deductible. Checks should be made out to = "The=20 Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York" (write = N.F.=20 Assyrian Book Fund in the memo field) and send = to:=20

Office of University=20 Development
Columbia=20 University
450 = Riverside=20 Drive - Room 948
New York,=20 NY 10015=20

=20

GOOD MORNING=20 BET-NAHRAIN=20

ASSYRIAN BUSINESS OWNER KILLED = IN=20 ARBIL

(ZNDA: Chicago) A = 60-year-old=20 Assyrian-Chaldean man, Habib Yousif Dekhoka, was killed in Arbil, = northern Iraq=20 on 15 December of last year. Mr. Dekhoka was a resident of=20 Ankawa. According to AINA, Mr. Dekhoka had been threatened several = months=20 earlier by armed thugs and on one occasion his store had been = firebombed. =20 On December 15, 1999 Mr Dekhoka did not survive the second bomb planted = in his=20 store. =

An Assyrian Democratic = Movement's press=20 release indicated that the automobile of another Assyrian business owner = in=20 Arbil was destroyed using a bomb. The victim escaped the attack = with=20 serious injuries.=20

While the AINA report points to = the=20 Behdanani and Sorani Kurdish groups as possible perpetrators of this = crime, no=20 official investigation of this case has been initiated at press=20 time.=20

MARONITE NUN MURDERED BY = ISLAMIC=20 MILITANTS

(ZNZT: Beirut) On the evening = of January 3,=20 the body of a 60-year-old Maronite-Lebanese nun was discovered in a = Beirut=20 university. According to security guards, Sr. Antoinette Zaidan was = raped and=20 strangled by Islamic militants. The same day, two Christian women = were=20 massacred in northern Lebanon by the Islamist group "Al-Takfir Wal = Higra." =20 One of the women was pregnant, and was found hacked to pieces. The New = Year=20 opened with a car-bombing in the Christian village of Kolaia. Several = churches=20 have been directly attacked, with four attacks occurring in the month of = November.=20

As Syrian-Israeli peace talks = continue,=20 Lebanese Christians worry about the outcome. Israel is to pull out of = the=20 security zone in July, leaving the Christians that populate the area = alone to=20 face Syria, the Hezbollah, and the pro-Syrian Beirut = regime.=20

Mervyn Thomas, CEO of Christian = Solidarity=20 Worldwide, stated, "It is becoming increasingly clear that the plight of = the=20 Christian minority in Lebanon will become intolerable once Israeli = troops pull=20 out of Syria unless preventive action is taken quickly by the = international=20 community. Pressure must be put on the Syrian government to respect the=20 conditions of UN resolution 520 and the Taif Agreement, and to withdraw = their=20 forces from Lebanon. In the meantime, the international community must = look at=20 ways in which it can assist the southern population as they seek to = establish=20 the necessary structures for local government."=20

Courtesy of ZENIT Vatican News Agency =
=20

NEWS DIGEST=20

ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN TO HELP = FORM ASSYRIAN=20 CAUCUS

(ZNAI: Chicago) On 3 = December 1999=20 the representatives of various Assyrian social and political = organizations in=20 the United States and abroad attended a Chicago fundraising dinner on = behalf of=20 Congressman Rod Blagojevich of the Fifth Congressional District in=20 Illinois. The Assyrian representatives formally asked for the = creation of=20 a special Congressional Caucus for greater awareness of the Assyrian=20 issues. Congressman Blagojevich promised to continue working with=20 Congresswoman Anna Eshoo of California in forming this Congressional=20 Caucus.=20

Congressman Blagojevich = explained that the=20 success of this Caucus will depend on the level of support of the = Assyrian=20 communities in the U.S.=20

For more information visit AINA: Click Here=20

HEADS OF ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN = CHURCH GATHER=20 IN JERUSALEM

(ZNAP: Jerusalem) The biggest and the = first in=20 nearly 60 years gathering of the heads of the world's Eastern Orthodox = churches=20 in Jerusalem took place last Wednesday. Among the topics discussed = were=20 the church history and the transition to the future.=20

Outside the meeting, some 200 protesters chanted = hymns, calling=20 on the Holy Mother of God to observe their plight. These members of the = Greek=20 Orthodox Church in Jerusalem prefer to call themselves Arab Orthodox, = and they=20 say the Greek clergy are outsiders who look down on them. They point out = that=20 there's not a single Palestinian or Israeli bishop. They say they want = the=20 hierarchy to identify with who they are -- their pain, their hopes, = their=20 history, their needs.=20

"We need preachers, we need churches, we need schools = for our=20 children," Rizk said. "My question to them is this: Are you here for = festivities=20 or for what the Bible is teaching us to do?"=20

Some protesters accused Greek Orthodox Patriarch = Diodoros I of=20 Jerusalem of selling church holdings to the Israelis and not promoting=20 Palestinian priests.
Diodoros' flock numbers = about=20 250,000 Christians in Israel, the Palestinian areas and = Jordan.=20

Church officials refused to comment on the = allegations about=20 selling church property. But they said not enough local Christians were = seeking=20 the priesthood and, as a result, there were no Arabs in the higher ranks = of the=20 church.=20

As for the church politics, the biggest dispute is = over the=20 role of the patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, called the "first = among=20 equals" of the Orthodox patriarchs.=20

He has been accused by some of attempting to = centralize the=20 church and of getting too close to Orthodoxy's oldest foe, Catholicism.=20 Orthodoxy's traditional domain encompasses Russia, much of Eastern = Europe, the=20 Balkans and pockets around the Black Sea.=20

Russian Patriarch Alexy II is still irked by = Bartholomew's=20 recognition of the autonomy of the Estonian church after it broke off = from=20 Moscow. Alexy II fears the Ukrainian Orthodox could ask the same from=20 Bartholomew's ecumenical seat in Istanbul, Turkey.=20

Diodoros asked his colleagues to work for the = stability of=20 their churches -- not an easy task considering the rivalries that plague = the=20 Orthodox church, with more than 200 million followers around the=20 world.=20

Report courtesy of Correspondent Jerrold Kessel = and the=20 CNN
=20

On January 6, members of the Ancient Assyrian = Church of=20 the East celebrated Christmas based on the Julian Calendar.=20

JORDAN OPENS JESUS' BAPTISMAL = SITE FOR=20 TOURISTS

(ZNRU: = Damascus) Last=20 Friday, thousands of Jordanians flocked to the site where Christ is = believed to=20 have been baptized in a symbolic pilgrimage to mark the official opening = of the=20 location to tourists. The ceremony ended more than two years of=20 preparations to make the site a centerpiece of millennium celebrations = ahead of=20 Pope John Paul's visit to the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan on March 20, = part of a=20 tour to biblical sites in the Holy Land. Jordanian = archaeologists,=20 whose claims are supported by leading Christian clerics, say a cluster = of old=20 Byzantine churches and mosaics recently unearthed prove the site called = Wadi=20 Kharrar is where Jesus was baptized.=20

Senior Christian clerics from = the main=20 Orthodox and Latin churches delivered sermons and hymns were sung as = dozens of=20 Jordanians underwent a second baptism. The ritual copied the baptism of = Jesus by=20 John the Baptist as narrated in the New Testament. Hundreds = of=20 pilgrims rushed to get some of the two thousand candles that were lit to = mark=20 the new Christian millennium. On Friday, Moslem Jordanians = who make=20 up a majority of the country's population of over 4.8 million celebrated = the=20 first day of the Moslem Eid al-Fitr festival that marks the end of the = fasting=20 month of Ramadan. According to last year's official census,=20 Christians make up four percent of Jordan's = population.=20

Article courtesy of Reuters; Copyright =A91999 = ABC News=20 Internet Ventures=20

THE MET REOPENS NEAR = EASTERN ARTIFACTS=20 GALLERIES

Courtesy of Discovering Archaeology, = January-February=20 Issue, #7=20

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened = its=20 Galleries for Ancient Near Eastern Art to the public October 19. Closed = for 18=20 months of renovation and installation of new exhibits, the galleries = contain=20 almost 9,000 years of art works, dating from 8000 B.C. through the Arab = conquest=20 of A.D. 651.=20

The new installation features Assyrian reliefs = illuminated by=20 natural light, plus sculpture, metalwork, seals, and other objects from = ancient=20 Mesopotamia, Iran and neighboring Anatolia, the Indus Valley, and = Central Asia.=20 Objects excavated from Nippur, Nimrud, and Hasanlu are on display, along = with=20 silver and gold objects from Iran and ivory from Anatolia, Syria, and=20 Mesopotamia.=20

Although the Department of Near Eastern Art opened in = 1956,=20 some objects, such as certain cuneiform tablets and seals, were acquired = as=20 early as the nineteenth century. Among the department's premier = attractions are=20 the glazed brick lions of Nebuchadnezzar.=20

SURF'S = UP!

"Happy New Year and New Century Zinda. All media and = information=20 organizations around the world are coming up with persons of the = century, events=20 of the century etc. I would rate your organization as one of = those=20 making most significant contributions to the preservation of the = Assyrian=20 culture and heritage and to the advancement of our survival in the = century about=20 to end. Judging from the manner you have embraced the latest = technological developments in the dissemination of information and have=20 been
conducting = your online=20 services to the Assyrian nation, I am sure you will continue to make = even more=20 fruitful contributions in the coming century. Yimma Atur must be = proud of=20 you."=20

Philimon Darmo =
Australia=20

In our next issue, Zinda will present 25 most = important=20 events and Assyrian persons of the 20th Century. Send your votes = to=20 z_info@zindamagazine.com.

"Congratulations to the improvements. May peace and = prosperity be=20 brought to the Assyrian people in the New Year of the "New Age". = Kull 'ahd=20 wa-antum bi-khayr !"=20

Petr Kubalek =
Czech Republic

"I would =20 like to congratulate the Zinda team for working so hard in publishing = this=20 valuable online newsletter without fail. Too bad we don't have = thousands =20 devoted Assyrians like yourselves to lead on our fight for = survival as you=20 do.=20

I would like to make some suggestion which will make = the Zinda=20 more interesting to read:=20

1- The first page should open at "home" this = eliminates one=20 extra waiting time to get there.=20

2- The Chapter heads are fine but there are no = headlines to=20 grab the readers attention to excite his/her interest in reading = the story=20 or the article. One has to go from one loading to another to find a=20 subject
to read. It is like entering a house = with many=20 rooms but not knowing which room is what until one gets = there.=20

3- The scroll down style of Zenda which allowed one = to go from=20 one subject to another was much more reader friendly because there was = no need=20 to wait for each page to load independently which is time =
consuming.=20

4- Make the type face a bit larger so that it is = easier to=20 read.=20

5- Advertise Zinda on Assyrian Forum = also.=20

Thank you again for such valuable service to the = Assyria=20 people. Happy new year to all of you may year 2000 be the = beginning of a=20 happy and prosperous period for our people around the world. Perhaps in=20 this
coming century Assyrians will have a = peaceful=20 place in their ancient homeland to gather once more and call it=20 home."=20

William Mooshabad = Warda=20
United States =

"I just found your new website. Very impressive... Can = you tell me=20 if it is true that two Assyrians were elected to the new Kurdish party = in north=20 Iraq! Keep us the good work!"=20

Paul Reubenov =
California=20

Three Assyrians were recently elected to the = 4th=20 Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq. They are as=20 follows:
1. Mr. Sarkis Aghajan=20 Mamendu           = =20 as Minister of Finance and Economics
2. Mr.=20 Younadim Y.=20 Kenna           &n= bsp;        =20 as Minister of Industry and Energy
3. Mr.=20 Yousif Hanna=20 Yousif           &= nbsp;        =20 as Minister (without portfolio)=20

=20

SURFERS = CORNER

"THE UNTOLD=20 HOLOCAUST"

The Assyrian Australian = Academic Society=20 (TAAAS) is proud to present the documentary video "The Untold Holocaust" = on the=20 Assyrian genocide.=20

TAAAS has worked hard through = its research=20 committee to produce this documentary. The video depicts the most=20 devastating Assyrian genocide, which occurred in the Asia Minor, between = 1900=20 and 1925. This
film=20 contains interviews recorded with survivors of the massacres of Assyrian = people=20 in the Asia Minor, in the first quarter of the 20th = century.=20

For more information: Click=20 Here=20

If you would like to order a copy of the video = contact=20 TAAAS by telephone, facsimile, or email:
Cost:$20=20 AUD
Orders: Name, Address, & = Phone=20 Number=20

PHONE - Australian orders: 02 9723 0390 (Other = countries:=20 61 2 9723 0390)
FAX - Australian = orders: 02 9723=20 0391 (Other countries: 61 2 9723 0391)
EMAIL -=20 taaas@cia.com.au=20

PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH ASSEMBLY = FOR=20 ASSYRIAN PHYSICIANS

I am honored by, and proud of all Assyrian = intellectuals who=20 went through enormous difficulties on the way to higher knowledge and = education.=20 And so is our nation that is in desperate need not only for more = educated=20 people, but also for a strong leadership that can lead the way into the = new=20 millennium.=20

As a physician, I am proposing the establishment of = an assembly=20 for all Assyrian physicians out of which a leadership for our physicians = can be=20 elected.=20

Obviously, this assembly must be a non-political, = non-profit=20 organization that will be governed by established bylaws, the details of = which=20 can be sorted out during the first official meeting, or even through a = virtual=20 meeting on the internet by using E-mail.=20

The way I see it, an organization like this will have = many=20 advantages not only to our nation, but also to our=20 practice. Click Here for the full = story=20
=20

Samir Denkha Johna, = MD=20
California=20

A UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON COPTIC=20 STUDIES

The Netherlands-Flemish = Institute in Cairo=20 offers a seminar
          &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;=20 in Egyptian archaeology, papyrology and Coptic studies for =
          &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;=20 university students and others interested in Egyptian = history=20
          &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;=20 (Willem Harlem, tel.: 011 20 2 3322522; e-mail: = nvic@rite.com)=20

MILESTONES =
Birth Announcements and Obituaries=20

Henry = Grzelak

86; of New Britain, = Connecticut; dies=20 on 12/17/99=20

ASSYRIAN=20 SURFING POSTS
Links to Other Assyrian Websites=20

Your Own ASSYRIAN.COM Email and Internet = Connection
Professor Simo Parpolla's Sons of God: The Ideology of Assyrian = Kingship
Mothers=20 and Daughters in Early Syriac Hagiography
Download Church of the East Calendar 2000 in Adobe PDF = Format=20 23K
Download = Malankara=20 Syrian Orthodox Church 2000 Calendar in MS Word
Is=20 the Theology of the Church of the East Nestorian?=20

LITERATUS =

BENEATH THE WATERY = DEEP=20
Recovering Gilgamesh's Opening = Lines

The Gilgamesh epic has been = pieced together=20 from clay tablets found around the Fertile Crescent. But these tablets,=20 inscribed with cuneiform characters, are extremely fragmentary; after = almost 150=20 years of decipherment, about 20 percent of the epic remained = missing--including=20 its opening lines.=20

But Theodore Kwasmann, an = American scholar=20 working in Germany, has changed that. In September 1998, after searching = among=20 the vast collections of the British Museum (only about one percent of = which is=20 on display), Kwasmann joined together two tablets that provide the = epic's=20 initial stanza. According to Andrew George, a University of London = scholar and=20 the author of a new translation of Gilgamesh, this miracle of detective = work has=20 changed our understanding of the ancient poem.=20

Written around the beginning of = the second=20 millennium B.C., the epic tells of the journeys of Gilgamesh and Enkidu = and of=20 Gilgamesh's quest for eternal life. In the Sumerian king list, Gilgamesh = is=20 listed as the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (c. 3500-3100 = B.C.), in=20 southern Mesopotamia. Whether or not a king named Gilgamesh actually = lived, his=20 story was kept alive for centuries: A number of tablets containing = portions of=20 the epic were found--by the British explorer Austen Henry Layard in the=20 1840s--in the library of the Assyrian king Assurbanipal (668-627 B.C.). = The epic=20 was probably even known by the biblical authors, who may have borrowed = its=20 description of a vast flood for the Noah story.=20

After linking up a tablet on = display in=20 Room 956 of the museum with one from the museum's storerooms (the joined = tablets=20 are shown above), Kwasmann realized that he had found the long-lost = opening of=20 the Gilgamesh epic. He and Andrew George then published the opening = lines in=20 Nouvelles Assyriologiques Br=E8ves et Utilitaires:=20

[sha nagbu iimuru i]shdi maati = [x x x-ti=20 iid]uu kalaama hhassu [Gilgamesh sha n]agbu iimuru ishdi maati [x x = x-t]i iiduu=20 kalaama hhassu=20

George initially felt that the = join=20 translated, "He who saw all, who was the foundation of the Land." But = after=20 discussions with Alasdair Livingstone, a cuneiform expert at the = University of=20 Birmingham, a new possibility arose.=20

The first part of the opening = line, sha=20 nagbu iimuru, means "he who saw the nagbu." What is a nagbu? The Chicago = Assyrian Dictionary translates nagbu as "totality" or "spring, fountain, = or=20 source." So did Gilgamesh see all of something or the source of=20 something?=20

The rest of the line provides = the answer.=20 Livingstone suggested that ishdi maati, "the foundation of the land," = may refer=20 to the nagbu--so that the nagbu, not Gilgamesh, is the foundation of the = land.=20 George offers the following translation:=20

He who saw the nagbu, the = country's=20 foundation, who knew ... was wise in all matters! Gilgamesh, who saw the = nagbu,=20 the country's foundation, who knew ... was wise in all=20 matters!=20

Livingstone and George reasoned = that nagbu=20 probably refers to something specific--not simply to the "All"--meaning = that=20 Gilgamesh sees the source of the land's foundation. Searching for = eternal life,=20 Gilgamesh dives into the ocean, literal or figural, tofind its=20 secret.=20

This watery deep, according to = George, is=20 the nagbu: "The Deep (nagbu) is the cosmic domain of the god of wisdom, = Ea ...=20 the source of ancient wisdom that underpins human society and = government. Ea=20 civilized mankind." After the Flood, according to this interpretation, = Gilgamesh=20 returns to the land with knowledge of civilized life that he acquired = beneath=20 the waters of the Deep.=20

Ronan James Head =
Archaeology Odyssey =
July/August 1999, Vol. 2, No. = 3=20

Archaeology Odyssey is published by the = Biblical=20 Archaeology Society and explores the archaeology and history of the=20 Mediterranean region, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Arabian=20 peninsula--from Paleolithic times through the Arab Enlightenment. =
=20

BRAVO=20

UNION OF THE ASSYRIAN = STUDENTS AND=20 YOUTH - ELECTIONS

Last month, students in northern Iraq held a = week-long student=20 body elections in Dohuk and Arbil. According to the results = announced on 5=20 December 1999, nearly 90 percent of the officers and student body=20 representatives elected are Assyrian.=20

The election results were as follows:=20

Dohuk Region Schools & University=20

Available Seats: 28
Assyrians: 27 =
Independents: 1=20

Arbil Region Schools & University=20

Available Seats: 15
Assyrians: 11 =
Kurdish: 3
=20 Independent: 1

PUMP UP THE = VOLUME

ENGLISH	MODERN=20 ASSYRIAN	GENDER
Grudge (to hold - = against)	ak/ta/na	masculine
Hateful	saa/o/tdaa	masculine

BACK TO THE=20 FUTURE

BC (1500)=20

A recent discovery of a complete library at the = neo-Babylonian=20 city of Sippar features over 800 individual tablets still standing on = almost 50=20 original shelves.=20

Archives and Libraries in the Ancient Near = East=20 1500-300 B.C., Olof Peders=E9n =

AD (1340)=20

Malik Shalita is born in the city of Nineveh where he = and his=20 father, Malik Sahrouna, governed the affairs of that city. Malik = Shalita=20 obtained his education in Greek and philosophy in Cyprus. Malik = Shalita=20 faught against the Mongolian army of Tamer Lame (Taimur Lang) and was = able to=20 save Nineveh from complete destruction. 10,000 Assyrian women and = girls=20 lost their lives among the thousands killed in the battlefield.=20

History of Assyria, = Mnashi=20 Amira=20

THIS WEEK IN=20 HISTORY

January 9, 1923 : The British Foreign Secretary, Lord Curzon, = reads his=20 speech on the plight of the Assyrians in the Lousanne = Conference.=20

CALENDAR OF = EVENTS

Until = Jan = 17	WASHINGTON=20 D.C. TREASURES=20 FROM THE ROYAL TOMBS OF UR Organized by the University of Pennsylvania = Museum of=20 Archaeology Open 10 AM to 5:30 PM = Daily=20 Closed December 25 1050=20 Independence Avenue, SW=20 On view are approximately 150 artifacts = excavated from=20 the ancient city-state of Ur in 1922 during an expedition led by = British=20 archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley. Many of the objects are from the = tomb of=20 the female Puabi and include jeweled headdresses, chokers, = necklaces,=20 rings and earrings, musical instruments, games, furniture, and = vessels.=20 Ur, the traditional birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham = and the=20 city under protection of the ancient Mesopotamian moon-god, was = located on=20 the western bank of the Euphrates River in what is now southern=20 Iraq. Click=20 Here
Jan=20 28	ROME, = ITALY=20 MEMORIAL OF ST.=20 EPHREM Divine Liturgy in the Eastern Assyrian Rite = (Chaldean and=20 Malabarese) Basilica of St Cecilia in=20 Trastevere
Jan = 29	SYDNEY,=20 AUSTRALIA SUPAFLY @ Sydney=20 Harbour! Organized by the Youth Crew of the Assyrian = Australian=20 Academic Society=20 Come aboard the Southern Star, a new 20 metre = double deck=20 two room cruise liner =20 Entertainers: 2 DJs, featuring a DJ = Jewelz of DCM=20 Sydney Ticket includes dinner, = complimentary=20 wine/champagne at arrival and great give-a-ways. =20 Strictly 195 tickets will be sold = Departure address: - Commissioner's Steps, Circular = Quay=20 Arrival address: - Commissioner's Steps, = Circular=20 Quay Time: - 8pm 'till 1am = Ticket pricing: - $30 members/$35 non-members/$40 = Door=20 Ages: - Strictly 18+ event For=20 more information email = youthcrew@altavista.com
May = 27	MODESTO,=20 CALIFORNIA FIRST=20 ASSYRIAN MIDI COMPOSERS CONFERENCE Double Tree = Hotel=20 2:00 PM-10:00 PM = PST=20 Organized by: Nineveh On = Line Click Here for more=20 information What is=20 MIDI? Click=20 Here

=20

SALUTE!
This Week's=20 Contributors:
in alphabetical = order=20

Walter = Ebrahimzadeh	California	Assyrian Surfing = Posts
Albert Gabrial	California	Surfers Corner
Shamasha Lawrance = Namato	Chicago	Assyrian Surfing = Posts
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