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Best to visit museums because ISIS demolished the ancient Assyrian artifacts.

Visit the Assyrian section at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, it is worth it. AFAIK there is an Ishtar Gate artifact which is cool.

If you're elsewhere then you must check out the Assyrian sections at the British Museum, Oriental Museum in Chicago and The Louvre.

If you're looking for modern Assyrian sites then check out the churches we have! We have some churches in Germany and I know some clergymen in Wiesbaden if you're ever in that area.

I like your idea. Reminds of something I read in Napoleon Hill's classic book 'Think and Grow Rich', in the book Napoleon follows some of the most successful people of the 19th-20th century, their habits, their mentality etc. It's pretty interesting, it took the author a long time to write and meet with some of the successful people he writes about. Basically many of the self improvement books of today are mostly based on what Napoleon Hill wrote.

Anyway, in the book one common property among the successful people was to create groups or societies of like-minded people working together, discussing, sharing ideas and philosophies etc. Just like what you are suggesting, so it's a good idea :)

Speaking of books, another book I enjoyed (maybe you've read it since you mentioned stoic philosophy) is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

>Let's be honest, many Assyrian men are in a poor state.

Agreed, I see many of our brother and sisters being so indifferent about so many incredibly important topics regarding our people. Sometimes I feel like I'm the crazy one trying to push for importance of our language and financially supporting Assyrian causes etc.

As simple as that:

The Hamidiye cavalry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamidiye_(cavalry) were setup by the Ottoman administration, under their command and were told to take over the land of the Christians, Assyrians or Armenians, it didn't matter.

No need to elaborate more on the matter, the Kurds themselves were part of the Ottoman administration, were supplied weapons by the Ottoman army and did what they were told for what they were promised: the land, properties and women of the Christians and their virgins in the paradise.

Ottoman soldiers so Kurds or Turks fought alongside and killed Assyrians.

It should be noted that the Kurdish Aghas who didn't wanted to participate in the killings of the Assyrians, among them çelebi Agha were imprisoned by the Ottomans. The administration's goal was clear.

From the book Let Them not Return: Seyfo, page 55:

>One remarkable aspect of the Sayfo genocide was the capacity of the Assyrians, once they realized that even they were targeted, not just the Armenians, to put up resistance. Depending on lucky circumstance, they organized self-defence units, made barricades, found weapons and made ammunition. At times they were able to repel large Kurdish attacks and even sieges by the regular army. Only rarely did this resistance result in an Assyrian victory, such as in the villages of Azakh and Ayn-Wardo

page 60:

>A young son of the Safar family, Hanne, as one of the few who knew Ottoman Turkish, served as advisor to the Ottoman general. Up until his death in the 1915 genocide, he was the main contact between Tur Abdin’s Assyrians and the government, and even became a figure inside a Kurdish tribal confederation. As loyal supporters of the government, the Safars were surprised when the authorities turned against the Assyrians and besieged Midyat in July 1915

These may be of assistance...

Youtube lessons

English-Assyrian dictionary

You can't get anything on there whether it is Classical Syriac or our vernacular Syriac dialects. Besides, Classical Syriac is mostly useless for us as it is not well understood in the populace.

If you want to get Syriac on a translation service, then donate money or time towards an effort that is open source where it can be controlled by the people instead of asking a conglomerate to do it for us.

Example, Mozilla Common Voice and its Syriac translation efforts

Yes but not at all. here You can find this book. In page 179 of this book we read that : It may be remarked that the name chosen by the Church of England for its mission has tended to come into general use, and the Nestorian Christians are usually now referred to as Assyrians. No doubt the Anglican intention was to emphasize the ancient lineage of this Eastern Church, and perhaps to minimize any suggestion of heresy that the word Nestorian might involve. ...

Assyrian as nationality was mention and describe in syriac manuscripts from 10th century, but we didnt use this name for us. Yes we begin to use that after excavations in nineveh plain in mid 19th century AGAIN.

This book has what you're looking for:

https://www.amazon.com.au/Church-East-Illustrated-Assyrian-Christianity/dp/1784536830

There's this great book on Amazon that was released recently: https://www.amazon.com/Queen-Assyria-Assyrian-I-V-Younan/dp/1735210315/

Add it to your coffee table or bookshelf! :)

Turn to: Samuel Moffett, Christianity in Asia - https://www.amazon.com/History-Christianity-Asia-Beginnings-1500/dp/1570751625

Marco Polo, 13th cent.: "the 'Nestorian' church outnumbered both Greek & Latin churches combined"

I bought this a while ago. I'm surprised that some of the words I use are actually western (I speak mostly eastern)

http://www.amazon.com/Aramaic-English-English-Modern-Aramaic-Dictionary-Phrasebook/dp/0781810876