#Assyrian

Dr Owen Rees

reeshistory

Some very #BadAncient here from @guardian @guardianart: 'Egypt and Greece were civilisations. Assyria was not.'Let's take a brief look at this then https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/mar/27/british-m

Assyrian Policy Institute

AssyrianPolicy

The theft of Assyrian lands in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is ongoing. Thread The chronic and systematic expropriation of Assyrian lands in the KRI has been a long-term

Ellie Bennett

sharratu_EllieB

So in some minor exciting news, I think I figured out how Neo-Assyrian women's shoes worked. A short thread. 1/9 I've been needing to scratch my #reenactment itch, and ages

Sami Jiries

samijiries

In my Akkadian class, we recently came across the word muškēnu, which is obviously cognate to Arabic مِسكين miskīn. So naturally, I decided to look into its origins and exactly

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

Brilliant new resource for the field that might also be fun to peruse.These administrative records from Neo-Assyrian palaces, forts, private archives, and elsewhere paint a detailed picture of what it

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

Did you know that Assyrian queens used a scorpion to symbolize their office?A thread. In ancient Mesopotamia seals were used to leave impressions on clay. They could be applied to

Baghdadi Bolshevik 🇮🇶 ☭

PrinceofBavel

On this day in 1949, Iraqi-Assyrian Yusuf Salman Yusuf, secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, was publicly executed by the Hashemite Monarchy. In this thread I'll discuss the life of

Max J. Joseph

DeadmanMax

I don't often talk about feelings or anything like that on here, but I wanted to make a short thread about my relationship to the plight of Yazidis, why I

joe greer

ioegreer

a few days i had a stranger send me DM that left me speechless & extremely emotional. let me explain, a few weeks back i tweeted about my assyrian heritage

Christopher W. Jones

cwjones89

Dear Twitter, I have spent a lot of time in the past two years working on this thing called my 'dissertation.'What is Christopher doing, you may wonder? In this thread

Iraq Tweets 🇮🇶

Iraq_Tweets

The Simele Massacre of 1933: Early Iraq’s neglect, ostracization, and eradication attempt of its Assyrian population // Thread: To start off, the Assyrians are indigenous to regions of Iraq, northeastern

Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid

Moudhy

As #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek draws to a close, here is a short thread to remind us that mental health issues are ancient, and that if you suffer from them, you are not

Queen ֍ #FreeMaral

Queen_Pavagane

As promised, I will be sharing my own family history. 1/ My maternal great-grandmother (she was 14 years old at the time) escaped with her brother by train. She had

Assyrian Policy Institute

AssyrianPolicy

The Alqosh mayorship has been a recent site of an ongoing effort to silence the Assyrian people, eliminate their legally and democratically selected leadership, and install a co-opted leadership that

Khaled Homoud Alshareef 🇸🇦

0khalodi0

The False Promise of Peace in the Middle East , how powers work in darkness to hinder peace and destabilize the fragile region through fighting real reformers and peace seeking

THE BLACK HEMINGWAY

J_Chiemeke

Divine inspiration aside, the Old Testament is good Prose.Nuanced storytelling, good dialogue, decent character development, good back stories, nice sentence construction.There is enough material in 1 & 2 Samuel, as

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