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Mar. 19

Norma Sayad George

  Did you know that in 1995, the Assyrian Cultural Foundation (the Assyrian Universal Alliance Foundation at the time) published an Assyrian cookbook called Assyrian Mothers’ Cookbook: Our Heritage, to […]

Mar. 18

Atra Givarkes

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 […]

Mar. 17

Murassa Urshan Georges

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)?  […]

Mar. 12

Homer Ashurian

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 […]

Mar. 10

Alexander “Shoora” Michailian

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 […]