Archives for: December 2016

Rana Nasser, from Qaraqosh, recites the Hail Mary in a dialect of Aramaic. “We don’t know the future, but we hope that it will be better for our children. We don’t want them to see the same things that we saw.” Rana, her husband, and her child hope to be resettled in…[…]

Lubna Manuel Elias, from Qaraqosh, is currently with her family in Amman, hoping to be resettled in a third country. Here, she recites the Our Father in Syriac. When I asked her what she brought with her from Qaraqosh, she answered: “our language.” Qaraqosh (Bakhdida) in Iraq was famous as the…[…]