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February 28, 2013
Chaldean Patriarch Mar Yousef VI Emmaneul II Thomas
by Chaldean News Staff
This vintage postcard shows "the late King Faisal with the Chaldean Patriarch
(Mar Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas), with Priests, in Mar Weaha Monastery, near
Mosul." It was postmarked in both Alqosh and
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March 30, 2012
Remembering our first Communions
In celebration of First Communion season, here are some community shots from
days of old.
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February 24, 2012
Kaskorkis Wedding
Peter Antone Kaskorkis and Salima Mansour Kamu were married in Baghdad in 1935
and eventually had five children. Pictured with them are, from the left: Bahija
Antone Kaskorkis, Maggie Jabouri, Alice Zabor,
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January 27, 2012
The more things change...
by Joyce Wiswell
Except for a few details, this article could have been written just last week
– but in fact, it ran on February 16, 1975 in The New York Times. "In
Aura of Fear, Babylonian Descendants Thrive as
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August 30, 2011
The First Chaldean Festival
by Joyce Wiswell
In the early 1970s, the Chaldean Church donated four acres in Southfield to the
then-fledgling Chaldean Iraqi Association of Michigan. In 1973, club members
realized they owed $5,000 to $6,000 in back taxes
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February 28, 2011
The Yatooma Family
Before leaving Iraq to seek his fortune in America in 1952, 16-year-old Sammy
gathered the Yatooma family in Baghdad for a keepsake photo. Seen here are
Sammy (top left), Georgette (Kasier), Noria,
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November 30, 2010
A wing and a prayer on the lost airplane
by John Khami
The airplane twisted, shook and kicked as oil sprayed onto the top of the wing
from one of the two propeller engines. The passengers, who had never been on an
airplane before, feared that it would fall out of
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March 3, 2010
Despite arranged marriage, love flourishes
by Joe Gasso
At the age of 13 most adolescent girls are high school bound and have just
gotten over the fact that boys do not, in fact, have cooties. Baghdad native
Sisiel Atisha Hamama is the exception today --
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December 2, 2009
Remembering the Chaldean American Youth Club
by Dave Nona
These historic photos show people you may presently know but may have
difficulty recognizing because of the impact of the ravages of time on their
youthful features. It is interesting to note that
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September 1, 2009
A 'Storied" Past
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August 1, 2009
Scenes of Summers Past
Jean Meram Najjar strikes a pose in the 1950s. Her parents, Joe and Hacina
Meram, were among the first pre-World War II Chaldean pioneers to America.
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August 1, 2009
Scenes of Summers Past
Tom Matti and his wife Katu (Katherine) were the first pioneer family to buy a
cottage on Cass Lake. The family often took friends and relatives out on
their Chriscraft motorboat, seen here in the late
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