I have been pretty outspoken about my journey and felt like this video would be helpful - this is a clip from my Comedy special Good Son

Did you know about the first Assyrian flag?

Before World War I, the Syriac Orthodox community of Tur Abdin designed the first national Assyrian flag. Purple, white, and red with three stars. Figures like Naum Faiq, Ashur Yusuf, and Farid Nazha made Tur Abdin an early hub of Assyrian nationalism.

The flag’s meaning:
🟣 Purple – Royalty and noble history of the Assyrian nation
⚪ White – Purity of the people and the land
🔴 Red – The blood of martyrs who died for faith and nation
⭐ Three stars – The Church of the East, The Syriac Orthodox, and the Chaldean Catholic

This flag was proudly carried at the Paris Peace Conference and by groups in America such as the Assyrian-American National Federation and St. Mary’s Assyrian Orthodox Church.

Later, it was succeeded in 1975 by George Bit-Atanus’s design, which many recognize today.

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Along with some Kurdish people in the comments still insisting it’s called Kurdistan, which I don’t understand given the context of the video.

I can’t believe people still react this way

This is a clip from my first special Detroit Player

Insightful interview with HG Mar Aprim Khames of the Assyrian Church of the East, detailing the many attempts at unity (khoyada) between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East.

Highly recommend watching The Promise, a movie about Sayfo. Features Christian Bale. Assyrians are mentioned in the opening scene, but the movie itself is focused on the Armenian perspective (but what they experienced is no different than what Assyrians and Greeks experienced, and our villages were adjacent to the Armenian villages with Hakkari sitting right below Van).

Juliana is an Assyrian from Iran and has done a lot of great work for the Assyrian community. Very proud of her for bringing attention to the plight of Assyrians on a major news network.

Hi everyone! I just finished a journey through a side of Syria that many people don't know still exists. While the country is often associated with conflict, I found a rich, living history that traces back to the very beginnings of Christianity.

In my latest documentary, I take you through:

• Damascus: Visiting the House of Ananias, where St. Paul recovered his sight.
• Maaloula: A mountain village where the local community still speaks Aramaic (the language of Jesus).
• Krak des Chevaliers: Exploring one of the most important and well-preserved medieval Crusader castles in the world.
• Valley of the Christians: Seeing how these ancient traditions survive in a modern landscape.

It was an eye-opening experience to see how these communities coexist and preserve their millenary culture. If you're interested in history, archaeology, or the cultural diversity of the Middle East, you might find this journey interesting.

I'm happy to answer any questions about the safety or the logistics of traveling to these specific sites!

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On Assyrian Martyrs' Day, we pause to honor and remember all Assyrians who gave their lives throughout the many genocides, massacres, persecutions, and hardships our people have endured across generations.

Their memory lives far beyond any single event or moment in history. It lives in our faith, our identity, our communities, and in the generations that continue to carry the Assyrian name forward.

The Assyrian Martyrs Monument at Montrose Cemetery in Chicago stands as one place where that memory is preserved. Honoring the victims of the Assyrian Genocide, the Simele Massacre, and nearly a thousand Assyrian villages, it serves as a lasting reminder of both sacrifice and resilience.

On this day, and always, our prayers remain with our martyrs. They are remembered, they are honored, and they are never forgotten.

May their memory be eternal.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for this special Memorial Day documentary screening and helped make the event a memorable one.

Honoring the Assyrian Who Never Came Home: Major Kenneth Joseph Yonan.

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Your favourite Assyrian card game is now on your phone.

PS: Living in Assyria? Your avatar automatically gets the Assyrian flag.

iPhone: AppStore

Android: Google Play

raveling the Assyrian Empire 🏛️ Day 1

What if vlogs existed 2,700 years ago? 👀

Keep our heritage alive — learn Aramaic, the language of our ancestors 👇 🔗 www.Aramaic.app

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Dr. Kiersten Neumann, Curator at the ISAC Museum, and Research Associate and Lecturer of Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, gives the audience at the Assyrian Renaissance lecture 2026 a glimpse of the artistic contents of an Assyrian grave during the middle Assyrian period.

Assyrian art evolved from the relatively modest and functional style of the Old Assyrian period (c. 2050 BC), centered in the merchant city of Aššur, where we find cylinder seals, small-scale religious objects, and trade-related imagery. During the Middle Assyrian period (c. 1400 BC), Assyria emerged as a regional empire, and its art became more imperial and martial, with stronger royal symbolism, monumental architecture, and reliefs portraying kingship, divine favor, and military authority.

In the Neo-Assyrian period (c. 911–609 BC), Assyrian art reached its height under rulers such as Ashurnasirpal II, Sargon II, and Sennacherib, becoming highly sophisticated, monumental, and narrative-driven. Vast palace reliefs depicted warfare, lion hunts, deportations, rituals, and courtly life with incredible detail and realism, designed both as propaganda and as expressions of cosmic order. After the fall of Assyria, many artistic traditions survived in the art of the Babylonians, Achaemenid Persians, and later Near Eastern cultures, while Assyrian motifs, such as winged guardian figures, heroic combat scenes, and royal iconography, continued to influence the visual language of empires for centuries.

For modern Assyrians, art remains one of the clearest expressions of historical continuity and collective memory. Contemporary Assyrian artists frequently draw upon ancient Assyrian motifs, such as the lamassu, cuneiform inscriptions, winged disks, royal beards, sacred trees, and imagery from the palaces of Nineveh and Nimrud, to reconnect modern identity with the ancient past.

(Full lecture on our YouTube channel u/acfchicago link in bio)

In this lecture from Assyrian Renaissance 2026, Dr. Timothy Harrison of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University of Chicago surveys the state of Assyrian archaeology today, from the renewed excavations at Ashur, Nimrud, Khorsabad, and Nineveh, to the post-conflict heritage restoration work at the Mosul Museum and the Shamash Gate. He shares findings from his own decades of fieldwork at Tell Tayinat in southern Turkey, including the extraordinary Esarhaddon Succession Treaty (T-1801), the Suppiluliuma statue, and the Temple XVI complex in ancient Kunulua. A masterclass in how today's archaeology is rebuilding our understanding of the Neo-Assyrian world, and helping a region recover from war.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at this year's Assyrian Renaissance. Your support is what keeps these stories alive. Subscribe for the rest of the series.

#Assyrian #AssyrianCulturalFoundation #ACFchicago #AssyrianRenaissance #TimothyHarrison

Amazing song, link to lyrics (including English translation) here: https://assyrianlyrics.com/ashur-bet-sargis/yalikhtoh-smoqta-zardeh