Youth Opinion
Iraqahyes and Assyrians: The Fertile Crescent’s greatest kinship
Never once did I piece together the convergence of lahmajun and kleicha in my life. I’ve always understood myself to be an Iraqi-American, the proud daughter of two Iraqi immigrants. I grew up with delicacies I labeled “Iraqi,” without understanding the nuances behind this characterization.
Lahmajun, an Armenian dish I’ve loved since childhood, draws from my mother’s Iraqahye (Iraqi-Armenian) heritage, while Assyrian kleicha connects to my father’s Assyrian roots. Armenian and Ass
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Very great ready, Khathi. Keep building nationalism for Assyrians because we really have to survive like everyone else. We also deserve to survive like everyone else.
Armenians, Assyrians, Jews, Persians, Kurds and Mandeans are the only ancient nations left who have survived to this day in West Asia, out of the many dozen ancient nations in this region who have become extinct and are relegated to history books and archeological remains. Mandeans, Assyrians and Kurds have been even more unfortunate than Armenians, that they have no independent state of their own and were and the latter two still are persecuted by the Turks (the only ethnic group not native to this region and who arrived only in the 11th century). Due to their much smaller numbers, Assyrians and Mandeans have suffered even more to this day and have been almost ethnically cleansed from their homelands and dispersed across Europe and North America. Armenians are lucky to have an independent state of their own, no matter how truncated it is; and this precious homeland should never be taken for granted in this problematic region, because this nation-state has been in survival mode for most of its very long history and even more so today, because these two hostile predatory Turkic countries, have never ceased to try to harm it and to subjugate it again.
This article needs to be updated or changed why is Iraqi American the tag at the bottom there is nothing Iraqi about Assyrian or Armenian and if the word Iraqi is mentioned towards food then it wouldn’t make sense to bring up Assyrian as middle eastern food doesn’t have a label of culture it belongs too today it’s jus food that is shared amoungst other cultures who also have something similar or same as it. Ive looked up her name and her father is the Assyrian here and her mother is Armenian why is it not said directly but rather through associating ethnicity to food while mentioning the name of the nation her parents are from but implying Assyrian is Iraqi and Iraq being the home to Assyrians when the same thing can be said about Assyrians from Turkey , Iran or Syria it’s the home to the people that nation belongs too of that ethnicity the Assyrians don’t have their own nation this article is written with misleading labels and words if this girl is half of two different cultures why is it tagged Iraqi American and not the name of her cultures Iraq has nothing to Do with her ethnicity other then her parents being from there because of 1 parent not having their own nation and 2 from persecution
Sorry but this was not written to be direct but to mislabel and throw words round and to cause more miscommunication and confusion, is the woman who’s identity is being talked about here half Assyrian half Armenian, like Patrick’s bet David , why would she label her Assyrian half as the name of the nation her parent is from but she doesn’t do that to the Armenian half side of her she is , Assyrian is only mentioned when it’s about the past and when she wants to benefit of it no food is Iraqi when it’s middle eastern I general even the Lebanese have their own verison of keleche as do other states I disagree with the part where she calls Iraqi home to Assyrians they are and have been fighting for their own nation that was never given to them by Europeans mandate calling Iraq home for Assyrians it’s like saying Iran and Turkey and Syria is home for Assyrians . It’s the home to the people of the nation it belongs to not Assyrians .
This article needs to be updated or changed why is Iraqi American the tag at the bottom there is nothing Iraqi about Assyrian or Armenian and if the word Iraqi is mentioned towards food then it wouldn’t make sense to bring up Assyrian as middle eastern food doesn’t have a label of culture it belongs too today it’s jus food that is shared amoungst other cultures who also have something similar or same as it. Ive looked up her name and her father is the Assyrian here and her mother is Armenian why is it not said directly but rather through associating ethnicity to food while mentioning the name of the nation her parents are from but implying Assyrian is Iraqi and Iraq being the home to Assyrians when the same thing can be said about Assyrians from Turkey , Iran or Syria it’s the home to the people that nation belongs too of that ethnicity the Assyrians don’t have their own nation this article is written with misleading labels and words if this girl is half of two different cultures why is it tagged Iraqi American and not the name of her cultures Iraq has nothing to Do with her ethnicity other then her parents being from there because of 1 parent not having their own nation and 2 from persecution