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Meltho is the Syriac word knowledge they had never thought possible. for Word, and true to its name Project Melthos Printing would remain the preferred method used original objective was to design Syriac software that to spread knowledge and information, written in the worked with MS-Word, then operating under Syriac dialects, until the introduction of the World- Windows 3.2. With the launch of Windows 95, Mr. Wide-Web during the 1980s. As the name implies Kiraz abandoned his initial work with Windows 3.2, the World-Wide-Web evolved to accommodate for and pooled his resources with Paul Nelson, after Mr. the entire world, and its many languages. To Nelson had originally sent him an e-mail asking him he printing of forty two Bibles by Johhanes accommodate the worlds many languages the for advice on how to implement Syriac fonts for Gutenberg in 1455 was a milestone in the Unicode standard was developed by the Unicode Windows. evolution of human development. For the Consortium. 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Numerous cultural day of spring or Vernal Equinox. experts and activists in Turkey have appealed (ZNSO: Damascus) According to the Syrian to the national authorities and the foreign ASSYRIANS IN JORDAN PLEA FOR Orthodox News, on 2 April 2000, His companies to save Hasankeyf by changing PAPAL HELP Holiness Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, the design of Ilisu. According to Olus Arik, Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church will a professor of Ankara University who (ZNAF: Amman) Over 10,000 Iraqi celebrate the liturgy of the divine mysteries supervises the archeological excavations at Assyrians living in Jordan attended the parade in Antioch, Turkey. According to this report, Hasankeyf, many cultural treasures cannot in the Amman Stadium on Tuesday, waving the seat of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate be transported, and that only 15 percent of the Assyrian flags as shown on CNN News of Antioch was in the city of Antioch until all relics could be saved by evacuation. Hour. The Assyrian community was urged AD 518, when Patriarch St. Severus was by the Catholic priests in the Misdar deposed and forced by Justinian I to flee from ANCIENT CASTLE FOUND IN SOUTH- neighborhood of Amman to greet the Pope the city. The Church established by St. Peter ERN BET-NAHRAIN and hand him a letter to pray for the end of in A.D. 37 is in a cave and is now maintained nearly 10-year-old U.N. sanctions on Iraq. by by the government of Turkey as a (ZNRU: Baghdad) Iraqi archeologists have The United Nations imposed sanctions on museum. discovered an ancient castle dating back to Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in 1990. Earlier Source: Mor Clemis Eugene Kaplan the pre-Islamic era in southern Bet-Nahrain’s this week, some 500 Assyrians had attended Babil Province- 60 miles south of Baghdad. the Sunday Mass and pleaded for the THE CONTROVERSIAL ILISU DAM According to the al-Zawra Weekly the castle Vatican’s help in obtaining visas to PROJECT contained many emigrate to Australia, Canada, artifacts, the United States and (ZNRU: Istanbul) The governments of Europe. Austria, Germany, Italy, Japan, “It’s very difficult to Portugal, Sweden, leave Jordan,” said Switzerland, the UK, and Souad Ibrahim, who the U.S. are currently has been stranded considering with her husband in extending official Amman for the past export credits or seven years trying to join her guarantees of briefchildren in Australia. “I want to about $ 850 ASSYRIAN WORLDleave. It’s too expensive here. There’s million to finance no work. It’s not good for food,” Ibrahim the Ilisu hydropower news. statues, said following the Sunday mass. project in Turkey. Ilisu is coins and Other Iraqis, pale-faced and wearing their at present the largest dam project earthenware pots of different sizes. Abdul- threadbare Sunday best, echoed her appeal, in Turkey’s pipeline. It is located on the Tigris Hameed Aggar, the head of the excavation saying there was no work here and they were river in South-East Anatolia, 65 km upstream team, said that bricks gilded by engraved relying on family overseas to send them of the Syrian and Iraqi border. The project is gypsum were used in the castle, indicating money. extremely controversial for a variety of “technical innovation” in the building. The political, social, environmental, economic, excavation began last year in Babil province, HANNIBAL ALKHAS EXHIBITION and archeological reasons. It appears to which is also the site of the historic city of OPENS IN HOLLAND violate five policy guidelines of the World Babylon. Aggar said other houses and castles Bank on 18 accounts, and core provisions of discovered in the excavation had designs (ZNDA: Enschede) Last Friday, March 17, the UN Convention on the Non-Navigational showing they were built under Parthians and the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Mor J. Jeshu Uses of Transboundary Watercourses. Sassanids — Persian dynasties that reigned Cicek together with the highest officials of The Ilisu reservoir will flood 52 villages and between the third century BC and seventh the city of Enschede, the Deputy Mr. J. 15 small towns, including the city of century AD. Last December, Iraq said its Kristen and the alderman Mr. Swart, opened Hasankeyf, and will affect 15,000-20,000 archeologists discovered 397 artifacts that the exhibition of the Assyrian painter at the people. The exact number of affected people dated back to about 2500 BC at an ancient “Jannink Museum” in Holland. Mr. Alkhas’ has so far not been established, since the site in southern Iraq. works will be on display until April 23. surveys of the reservoir area were in part Around the same hall where Mr. Alkhas’ conducted by helicopter rides. Affected TURKISH INTERIOR MINISTRY FOR- paintings were displayed, a special section people are not being consulted. BIDS NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS was also dedicated to the Christian Assyrian- The Ilisu reservoir will flood Hasankeyf, a Suryoyo culture of Tur-Abdin. For this Kurdish town with a population of 5,500. (ZNDA: Istanbul ) The Interior Ministry of occasion the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of Hasankeyf is the only town in Anatolia which Turkey forbade the New Year celebrations, “Mor Ephrem Suryoyo” has offered three has survived since the middle ages without including Assyrian Kha b’Neesan and the ancient Syriac books, both over 800 years old, destruction. Being a rich treasure of Assyrian, Kurdish/Iranian No-rooz in Tur-Abdin. The the different Syrian Orthodox priestly attires, Christian, Abassidian-Islamic and Ottoman city of Mardin’s mayor, Osman Akkoyun, among them one of Archbishop Mor J.
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