GIVALEVICH, ANDRE (b. Salmās district 1908 or 1911; d. Tehran, 1985; Figure 1), Assyrian painter and athlete. The Givalevich family…

SIMONO, NIMROD (b. Salmās, 1908; d. Tehran, 2004), Assyrian author, editor, and Aramaic specialist (Figure 1). Simono was born in…

YOHANNAN, ABRAHAM (1853-1925; Figure 1), Assyrian scholar, philologist, historian, and humanitarian advocate. He was the first “Oriental” to teach Oriental…

JACOBS, SAMUEL AIWAZ (b. Širābād, 12 February 1890; d. Yonkers, N.Y., 16 September 1971; Figure 1), Assyrian intellectual and publisher….

ŌDŌ, TŌMĀ (romanized: Thomas Audo; b. Alqosh, Iraq, 1853; d. Urmia, 27 July 1918; Figure 1,

ORAHAM, ALEXANDER JOSEPH (b. Armudāḡāj, 7 February 1898; d. 1953, Figure 1), Assyrian physician and lexicographer, born in the village…

QALA d-ŠRARA (The voice of truth), a monthly publication of the mainly French Catholic Lazarist Mission in Urmia which ran…

FESTIVALS ix. ASSYRIAN The adoption of Christianity by the Assyrians in the latter part of the 1st century led to…

DAVID, JACOB (b. Seyr village, 15 November 1873; d. Chicago, 26 May 1967), Assyrian pastor and relief worker. After completing his primary…

DA’TID BAHRANA (with the Persian title Āyanda-ye rowšan “Bright future”), Assyrian bilingual periodical published in Tehran in 1951. Begun on…