Sayfo - An Account of the Assyrian Genocide

Author/Contributor(s):	Qarabash, Abed Mshiho Neman ; Abdalla, Michael ; Kiczko, Lukasz
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Date:	03/16/2021
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today's Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by a master of Syriac with an in-depth knowledge of modern Assyrian history, this text creates a unique opportunity for new and progressive scholarship. The Assyrian genocide is one of the forgotten atrocities of the 20th century. The physical destruction was but one element; it also caused demographic shifts, loss of territory, generational trauma and linguicide, along with cultural genocide/ethnocide and identity erosion.