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Atra Givarkes is an Assyrian artist based in California.  What makes her style of art unique is that she tends to incorporate calligraphy into her work.  Calligraphy is an ancient […]

Did you know that one of the first people to record Assyrian music in the United States was a woman who lived in Chicago named Murassa Urshan Daniels (later Georges)?  […]

For nearly thirty years, Homer Ashurian was one of the key figures involved with the Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation (the ACF today).  Did you know that he was also a […]

In 1990, the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Dinkha IV, asked the musician, Alexander “Shoora” Michailian, to put together a book that provided musical notation for […]

  Did you know that one of ACF’s former presidents, John Nimrod, was also the state senator of Illinois from 1973 to 1983?  Nimrod was born in Chicago to an […]