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The Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, New York. United States The next museum we are going to cover is one of the more recent…

Remembering Obelit Yadgar

The Assyrian Cultural Foundation deeply mourns the passing of Obielit Yadgar, a cherished voice in the Assyrian community and an honorary guest…

Assyrian Instrument: Lyers of Ur

Paintings, ornate vases, reliefs, and other pieces of ancient fine art depict musicians playing a myriad of instruments. However, it’s rare the…

The Iraq Museum

The Iraq Museum Baghdad, Iraq As we discussed in our previous museum blogs, after the 19th century exhibitions of Assyrian sites, most…

The Vorderasiatisches Museum

The next museum collection we will be discussing is the Vorderasiatisches Museum in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany. The collection of…

The British Museum: London, England

In our blog on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, we discussed the excavations conducted by Assyrian British diplomat Austin Henry Layard, and…

Naum Faiq

In February of 1868, Naum “Faiq” Palakh was born in Diyarbakir, located in the Assyrian region of the Ottoman Empire. While pursuing…

Dr. Freidoon Azizi, MD, FACOG, FACS

To Dr. Freidoon Azizi, the health and wellness of others has always been a passion. Though he practiced medicine in Illinois for…

Ninos Aho

Ninos Aho was born in 1945 in a small village in Syria, Gerkeh-Shama. He relocated to Qamishli and later Damascus in pursuit…

Maria Nissan

In honor of Earth Day, the Assyrian Cultural Foundation’s Fine Arts Department is honored to share the environmentalist art of Maria Nissan.…