Our Assyrian Story

Our Assyrian Story tells the real-life saga of an ancient community fighting to preserve its language and culture in the face of land encroachment, religious persecution, and assimilation. Assyrians, including Chaldeans and Syriacs, are an ethnic group that is primarily Christian and Indigenous to parts of modern-day Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria - an area referred to as Mesopotamia or the cradle of civilization. In recent decades, Assyrians have faced increased pressure to leave their ance...