Assyriskan Seham Youssef Hawsho har nyligen kommit ut med sin andra bok om sitt älskade fosterland Syrien. Den heter på arabiska Bahr al-demu', Ard al-shemu' (Ett hav av tårar, ett land av ljus). Som tolk har hon tagit del av otaliga tragiska berättelser av flyktingar...
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Ibrahim Seven about Kirkuk and the Islamization of Europe
The Assyrian politician Ibrahim Seven in Germany comments the liberation of Kirkuk and other “disputed” areas of Northern Irak. As he predicted in an interview with Assyria TV two weeks ago, the Kurdish Peshmerga did not fight because is it primarily based on tribal...
Father Kerim Asmar: We are not only “Christians”
Father (Khuroyo) Kerim Asmar from Switzerland comments on the current situation and challenges facing his church, the Syriac Orthodox Church. He sees the new patriarch Afrem II Karim as a blessing for the church and a leader who can lead the people forwards during...
Ibrahim Seven about the current situation in Middle East
The Assyrian politician Ibrahim Seven in Germany comments the latest development in Iraq, Syria and Turkey; The Kurdish referendum and occupation of Assyrian lands, as well as history revisionism by the KRG. The war in Syria and the Kurdish abuses against the...
Assyrian News in Focus 2017-10-03
Irak, kurdisk folkomröstning: Efter att omröstningen var genomförd började Barzani tala med ödmjuk ton gentemot Bagdad, sedan centralregeringen aviserade hårda åtgärder. Flygplatserna i Arbil och Suleymania togs över, gränserna likaså, Iran stängde sin gräns mot KRG...
Assyrian News in Focus 2017-09-19
Idag med dr Ibrahim Afram som medverkande. Syrien: • Explosionen i Qamishli igår kväll på en MC skedde i ett område strax utanför Wusta. Ett barn dog och 6-7 skadades. • Dawronoyes krav på att assyriska skolor i Qamishli måste anta kurdisk läroplan avvisades bestämt...
PYD imposes Kurdish curriculum on Assyrian schools in Qamishli
The self-proclaimed Kurdish authority, PYD, has begun to impose Kurdish curriculum on Assyrian private schools in Qamishli, Syria, as well as on the regim-controlled schools in the city. The PYD has, so far, translated some basic Kurdish school books into Syriac and...
Kurdish YPG’s systematic provocations against Assyrians in Syria continue
(Svenska längre ner) Kurdish (Muslim) YPG is systematically using the Dawronoye group to break Assyrian unity and create provocations that can give Muslim Kurdish police a pretext to take over the last neighborhood in Qamishli, that is controlled by Assyrian police...
Olle Wästberg – eldsjäl i assyriernas försvar
Diplomaten, politikern, journalisten och människorättskämpen Olle Wästberg berättar här om sitt engagemang för assyrierna på 1970-talet när de flydde från förtryck i Turkiet. Han och några andra eldsjälar bildade då Assyriska flyktingfonden (sedermera...