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Assyrian Movement for Collective Liberation: Mobilizing as artists, educators, & organizers
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ܙܘܥܐ ܐܬܘܪܝܐ ܠܚܘܪܪܐ ܟܢܫܝܐ

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I first met forced assimilation at the age of 6, when a white british school forbade me to speak my native tongue in order to continue attending school. Following this abrupt interaction that stunted intimacy with my identity, I unwillingly learnt at a young age the necessity to fight.

Assyrians, Chaldeans, Arameans and Indigenous kin, are still coerced and forced into cultural suppression at the hands of coloniality and orientalism.

Indigenous languages have a unique vocabulary that's interwoven with the spirituality of cultural animism and ancestral Lands. Linguistic diversity remains under threat as we are on average losing 1 language a week. In 2005, linguists concluded that 60-90% of the world's 7000 languages will be at risk of extinction in the next 100 years.

So.....I was deeply humbled that a dear friend Dicky Bahto @dicky_bahto invited me and other Assyrian artists to share our words and imagery in his feature film 'A note on the ruins for visitors.'

Dicky writes, "I realized that the genocide hadn’t ended, and I needed to think about my relationship not only to the past of our community, but also to the present and to a future in which I decided I no longer wanted to take a passive role." The film investigates the materiality of cultural memory alongside its personal and spiritual dimensions, embodying the rebuilding of a community and connection to culture that honors the past while insisting on an open future.

This excerpt is from 'A note on the ruins for visitors' (2026) by Dicky Bahto. 69 minutes, Super 8 to HD, color & b/w, sound. In this excerpt you also see Esther Elia @malikta.esther painting the "blood and stone" prayer/poem in suret onto a prayer bowl.

Written suret translation by @tawtranslation

We invite you to watch the trailer and access the reader for the feature film here:
https://dickybahto.com/a-note-on-the-ruins-for-visitors/

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From Beth Nahrain to Palestine Fundraiser Print❤️‍🔥

This print features a one-line poem I wrote in 2024, frustrated about the perception of the ‘Middle East’ as a fundamentally violent and ‘war-torn’ region when the current instability is a result of Western invasion and colonial forces. I leave the rest of the poem for you to interpret.

It’s been a long time since I’ve organised any fundraisers. All proceeds from the sale of these prints will be split between the Al-Nahal family @sonofgaza11 whose campaigns I manage and the Palestinian Assyrian Friendship Committee @pafcommittee in Gaza.

This A4 print ($30) will be available in person to purchase at my next two markets stalls. It is also now on my online store with worldwide shipping.

Featuring ‘Beth Nahrain’ in Assyrian and ‘Palestine’ in Arabic

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Every year on August 7, Assyrian communities around the world pause to remember a haunting massacre that took place in 1933 across Iraq and Syria – a detailed, planned, and methodical four-day massacre that shook the Levant and still affects it nearly a century later. Remembering this date stands as a duty for every Syrian citizen, as it shaped our Assyrian community and represents the continuity of tragic events targeting Christian Syrians.

في السابع من آب من كل عام، تستذكر المجتمعات الآشورية في مختلف أنحاء العالم مجزرةٍ مروعة وقعت عام 1933 في العراق وسوريا، مجزرةٌ استمرت أربعة أيامٍ ونُفذت بصورةٍ منظمة ومخطط لها، هزّت بلاد الشام، وما تزال آثارها حاضرة بعد ما يقارب قرناً من الزمن. إن إحياء ذكرى هذا التاريخ يُعد واجباً على كل مواطنٍ سوري، لما له من أثرٍ عميق في تشكيل مجتمعنا الآشوري، ولأنه يُجسد استمرار المآسي التي تستهدف السوريين المسيحيين.

By @shazaajk
Copy by @ammar_deeb @tayamoulla @shahed_hanna
Graphics by @arameanartist

#WanabqaHistory
#WanabqaDiversity
#WanabqaCulture

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I'm excited to share a collection of texts to accompany my recently completed feature-length film 'A note on the ruins for visitors', as a way of speaking alongside the themes and ideas that are in the film: how, through art, Assyrians preserve cultural memories that are ancient or recent, shared or personal, and furthermore through our art we are able to rebuild connections not only to our past but also to each other, connections that genocide sought to erase permanently.

The film was shaped not only by my own thoughts and experiences, but also by many conversations both in person and on-line with Assyrian friends around the world, and so this reader brings together essays, personal statements, Instagram posts, visual art, photographic documentation, and poetry made in places currently called the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq. Many thanks to everyone for allowing me to include your words and images in this collection. May it inspire you, as Isla Hanna puts it, “to serve the living as much as the dead.”

Link to download in bio.

Images: 1. A trailer for the film
2. Cover of the reader
3. A drawing by Maryam Yousif
4. A photo from Esther Elia's family archive of family and neighbors in Urmia
5. A digital painting from Rami KD's series ܒܝܬܐ ܕܟܘܟܘܐ
6. A photograph of the Seyfo memorial at the Saint Efrem Syriac Orthodox Church in Beirut that I made when I visited in 2019
7. A photograph of the Saint Odisho church in northern Iraq by Ramsen Shamon

Reader info:
Edited and assembled by Dicky Bahto @dicky_bahto

With contributions by:

Isla Hanna @bintshalom
Anna Kinglsey @brickfactorydesigns
Tenise Marie @tenisemariemusic
Esther Elia @malikta.esther
Monette Eiliazadeh @monetteazadeh
Deena Ana @anadeena_
Sarha Abraham @sarhaabraham
Ramsen Shamon @ramsen_
Sami Seif @samiseifcomposer
Maryam Yousif
Lolita Emmanuel @lolitaemmanuel
Alfreda Eilo @dara.foielle
Sherly Kyorkis @skyorkis
Mariam Georgis @mariamgeorgis
Marz Sabri @heavypond
Rami KD @ramikd.art

With Sureth translations by:

Shibla BetShmuel @shiblabetshmuel
Yesh Malik @yeshmalik_
Ashuriena Abraham @ashuriena

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Forgotten Warriors: The Resistance of Pontic Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians

They were not only victims of genocide, they were defenders of their people, fighters who stood against annihilation when the odds were impossible. In the face of massacres, deportations, starvation, and cultural destruction, they chose resistance over surrender.

The Pontic Greeks retreated into the mountains of Western Pontus, forming guerrilla bands that protected fleeing civilians and resisted Ottoman forces. In regions such as Santa and Amasya, their resistance helped save thousands of lives, even as more than 350,000 Pontic Greeks perished through deportations, executions, and death marches.

The Armenians organized some of the most remarkable acts of resistance during the genocide. At Musa Dagh, 4,000 villagers held off Ottoman troops for 53 days before being rescued by Allied warships. In Van, Zeitun, and other strongholds, Armenian defenders protected tens of thousands of civilians during the darkest years of the Armenian Genocide, in which around 1.5 million Armenians were killed.

The Assyrians fought to defend their communities across Hakkari, Tur Abdin, and northern Mesopotamia. Under leaders such as Agha Petros, Assyrian fighters used guerrilla tactics to shield refugees and resist Ottoman attacks, achieving victories in battles such as Sauj Bulak. Yet despite their courage, up to 300,000 Assyrians were killed during the Sayfo genocide.

We remember them not only for how they suffered, but for how they resisted. Though partially separated by geography and circumstance, Pontic Greeks, Armenians, and Assyrians shared the same struggle: survival, dignity, and the defense of their people.

Today, their memory calls on us to stand together: for truth, for justice, and for recognition.

Their strength did not die with them.
It lives on in us.

NEVER FORGET - EXISTANCE IS RESISTANCE

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Akhnan eewakh shirshayeh d’Bet Nahrain.
‎ܐܲܚܢܲܢ ܝܼܘܲܚ ܫܸܪ̈ܫܵܝܹܐ ܕ-ܒܹܝܬ݂ ܢܲܗܪܝܼܢ

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Մեր յաւաքական ուժը, մեր երկիրը, մեր գիտութիւնը, մեր ժողովուրդը, մեր երկինքը 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

ܚܘܪܪܐ ܝܠܗ ܟܝܢܘܫܝܐ ✊🏽🌼♥️

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EXTREMELY URGENT MESSAGE FROM LEBANON

@lemkininstitute you are responsible to move from the language of warnings to accountable action whose main purpose is to stop this.

A doctor’s testimony from yesterday translated by @houssein_almahdi :
“What we witnessed was beyond anything we could have imagined. Never before has the morgue overflowed like this, we were forced to open an additional refrigerator to receive the bodies of the victims and what remained of them.”
- Dr. Saad Bou Hmein from Beirut Governmental Hospital

A Chrono-Cartographic List of Targeted Bridges/Crossroads 02/03/2026- present compiled by @cartographyofdarkness

02/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
05/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
13/02 Tireh Filsayh Bridge (Nahr Tireh)
13/02 Dibbine - Marjayoun road
13/02 Al-Khardali - Marjayoun road
13/02 Wadi Al-Hajir Bridge - Al-Qantarah
13/02 Tarfalsiyah Bridge
13/02 Al-Zarariyah Bridge (Litani River)
17/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
18/03 Al-Kinayyat Bridge (Al-Qassimiyah area)
18/03 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge (coastal highway)
18/03 Two ferries in Al-Qassimiyah and Burj Rahal
19/03 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge
22/03 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge
23/03 Al-Qa’qa’iyat Bridge
23/03 Ferry near Al-Qassimiyah Bridge (Litani River)
23/03 Al-Dalafi Bridge
08/04 Al-Qassimiyah Bridge

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Share widely with all friends and family. Part 1. A more extensive guide will be released and hopefully more languages in the future. Made in collaboration with a U.S. war veteran who is now against war and all forms of imperialism.

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ܒܢܝܡܝܢ | سيزر إيوان جارو

قصيدة في الذكرى السنوية لاستشهاد أمير الشباب البطريرك الشهيد الجاثليق مار شمعون التاسع عشر بنيامين بطريرك كنيسة المشرق الرسولية وقائد الأمة الآشورية في اوائل القرن العشرين غدراً على يد سيمكو الشكاك " أحد رؤوس العشائر الكردية" غدراً في مقاطعة سلماس.

اليوم نستذكر شهيد المشرق ونذكر بأن قاتلهُ يُذكر في مناهج التأريخ في حكومة الأقليم، وباللغة الاشورية في المدارس الاشورية في شمال البلاد، وهنا نتذكر أن قيم التعايش والاخاء ليست الا اكليل يوضع على نعش الاشوريين وعلى حساب حريتهم المنقوصة.

تحيا ذكرى مار بنيامين، وشهداء الأمة.

ܒܢܝܡܝܢ | CAESAR EWAN JAROO

A poem commemorating the anniversary of the martyrdom of the young Patriarch, the martyred Catholicos Mar Shimun XIX Benjamin, Patriarch of the Apostolic Church of the East and leader of the Assyrian nation in the early twentieth century, treacherously murdered by Simko Shikak, a Kurdish tribal leader, in the Salmas region.

Today we remember the martyr of the East and recall that his killer is mentioned in the history curricula of the regional government and in the Assyrian language in Assyrian schools in the north of the country. Here we remember that the values of coexistence and brotherhood are nothing but a wreath placed on the coffin of the Assyrians and at the expense of their diminished freedom.

Long live the memory of Mar Benjamin and the martyrs of the nation.

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OCCUPATION SUSTAINS EMPIRE.

US–Zionist-led attacks against Iran, and the reported missiles directed toward British military installations at Akrotiri, have renewed public debate in Cyprus regarding the status and implications of the British Bases.

These bases are not under the authority of the Republic of Cyprus, yet their operation exposes our people to retaliation. They place Cypriot citizens, without their consent, in the middle of conflicts they did not choose and do not wish to be part of. We cannot accept being turned into a frontline state for imperialist wars of aggression.

Cyprus continues to endure the Turkish occupation of part of its homeland, while also living with the continued British occupation through its bases on the island. While a significant portion of Cyprus’ territory remains outside the effective control of the Republic, some political forces in Cyprus and their allies abroad portray a country with a semi-colonial character as a fully sovereign Western state, detached from these structural limitations. This narrative shields external powers from accountability and normalizes the status quo.

We cannot understand the continued British military presence on our island without situating it within the wider context of Turkish occupation. As the primary material contradiction affecting our island, the occupation has transformed Cyprus’ political identity, creating a politics of instability and survival that legitimises the continued exploitation of our island by the UK and the US in furtherance of material support towards the Zionist settler colony. Occupation sustains Anglo-American empire, and liberation from empire cannot be won so long as our sovereignty continues to be denied. As the Union of Cypriots, we affirm our commitment to full sovereignty and will continue to struggle until our country stands free from every colonial remnant.

Read more via the link in bio.

#LiberateCyprus #FreePalestine #DecolonizeCyprus #BasesOffCyprus

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Help @healthworkersandallies4pal now in their fight for Palestinian and collective liberation as they continue to be censored and repressed by the colonial state. (Fundraising link in @healthworkersandallies4pal bio)

https://chuffed.org/project/167372-ha4p-legal-fees-equipment

To counter propagandist governance, we must continue to center cross-cultural representations beyond our limited experience.
Within this space we aim to recognise the varied experiences of the oppressed as we conceptualize the collective struggle and piece together fragmented histories in our decolonial efforts.

Resistance takes many forms. Free Palestine and may Palestine free the collective conscience.

Filmed by @professorzofficial

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