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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turks and their puppets have ethnically cleansed about 33 Assyrian villages north of Tel Tamr
2021-10-13
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Posted by:Fred

#1  March 15, 2010 Kinna
Seventy Thousand Assyrians – William Saroyan
"I’m kicking off my Short Story Mondays with a review of William Saroyan’s Seventy Thousand Assyrians. William Saroyan (1908-1981) was born, and raised in California, to Armenian immigrants.
In the opening paragraph of the story, he writes :
“I hadn’t had a haircut in forty days and forty nights, and I was beginning to look like several violinists out of work. You know the look: genius gone to pot, and ready to join the Communist Party. We barbarians from Asia Minor are hairy people: when we need a haircut, we need a haircut…(I am writing a very serious story, perhaps one of the most serious I shall ever write. ..."
Assyrians have had a rough go for quite some time.
Posted by: Bertie Crains2651   2021-10-13 17:30  

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