Have you ever thought about what your life would be like without your language? What about the fact that your children may not be able to speak your language when you are no longer alive?
Have you ever thought about what your life would be like without your language? What about the fact that your children may not be able to speak your language when you are no longer alive?
Dr. Ronald Michael is a surgeon in Chicago, Illinois. He was born in Lebanon, grew up in Iraq and Lebanon, and moved to Chicago in 1967. All four of his grandparents are from what is now southeastern Turkey, along the border of northern Iraq. They fled there during the Assyrian Holocaust by Ottoman troops and Kurds during the waning years of Ottoman rule.
As complex and ancient as the Assyrian history is, can you give us some brief background?
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.