Naum Faiq - Kawkab Madinho
Naum Faiq - Kawkab MadënẖoII
Volume I1: Nr. 21 (1911) - Nr. 40 (1912)
Editors: Jan Bet-Sawoce, Aydin Be-Naqshe Aslan and Abboud Zeitoune
Naum Faiq Palakh is undisputedly considered a pionee r of the Assyrian national movement. He left a great legacy in his long career as a journalist, writer and activist.
His works appeared to be completely lost since his death in 1930. But through painstaking work, a large part of his writings were recovered.
From July 16, 1910, Naum began publishing Kawkab Madënẖo (Eastern Star) as a bi-weekly magazine. With Faiq's forced emigration to the United States in 1912, publication ceased.
The magazine Kawkab Madënẖo was hardly accessible for two reasons: First, a century after its first publication, only microfilm copies of the magazine could be discovered in the New York Public Library. Apparently the magazine's subscriber, Gabriel Boyaji, who lived in the United States, had donated the publication to the New York Library and, fortunately, it was archived on microfilm.
The second reason for the inaccessibility is that the content is written mainly in handwritten Garšuni (Ottoman and Arabic) and therefore can only be deciphered by experts. Garšuni has been a preferred method of writing both secular and religious texts among the Assyrians since the spread of Arabic in the northern Mesopotamian region, using the Syriac alphabet.
This second volume, with issues 21 to 40 of Kawkab Madënẖo, is the gratifying result of the extensive and time-consuming efforts of a small team that took up the challenge of presenting the previously inaccessible contents of the first magazine by the most famous Assyrian journalist Naum Faiq.
Naum Faiq - Kawkab Madënẖo
Volume 1: Nr. 1 (1910) - Nr. 20 (1911)
Editors: Jan Bet-Sawoce, Aydin Be-Naqshe and Abboud Zeitoune
Naum Faiq Palakh is undisputedly considered a pioneer of the Assyrian national movement. He left a great legacy in his long career as a journalist, writer and activist.
His works appeared to be completely lost since his death in 1930. But through painstaking work, a large part of his writings were recovered.
From July 16, 1910, Naum began publishing Kawkab Madënẖo (Eastern Star) as a bi-weekly magazine. With Faiq's forced emigration to the United States in 1912, publication ceased.
The journal Kawkab Madënẖo was hardly accessible for two reasons: First, a century after its first publication, only microfilm copies of the journal could be discovered in the New York Public Library. Apparently the magazine's subscriber, Gabriel Boyaji, who lived in the United States, had donated the publication to the New York Library and, fortunately, it was archived on microfilm.
The second reason for the inaccessibility is that the content is written mainly in handwritten Garšuni (Ottoman and Arabic) and therefore can only be deciphered by experts. Garšuni has been a preferred method of writing both secular and religious texts among the Assyrians since the spread of Arabic in northern Mesopotamia, using the Syriac alphabet.
This volume containing the first 20 issues of Kawkab Madënẖo is the gratifying result of the extensive and time-consuming efforts of a small team that took on the challenge of presenting the previously inaccessible contents of the first magazine by the most famous Assyrian journalist Naum Faiq.
Title: Kawkab Madenho I
ܢܥܘܡ ܦܐܝܩ - ܟܘܟܒ ܡܕܢܚܐ
Editor: Aydin Be-Naqše Aslan, Jan Beṯ-Şawoce, Abboud Zeitoune
Scope:356 pages
Language:Turkish, Arabic, Syriac
Publication date: February 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4717-6758-6
A short documentary about our research in documents and magazines of Naum Faik. Video is with english subtitles.
Short interview on AssyriaTV about the aim of the documentary and the ongoing research - Broadcasted 05/27/2019
My speech on 24.04.2019 at the Seyfo Memorial in Wiesbaden. I read an article of Naum Faik from 1916 about the ongoing genocide then.
This memorial was organised by the Assyrian and Aramean association in cooperation with the Syriac Orthodox church.
This memorial was organised by the Assyrian and Aramean association in cooperation with the Syriac Orthodox church.
Lecture about Naum Faik and his works
Wiesbaden - February 3, 2019
My telephone participation in the memorial broadcast on February 3, 2017 on AssyriaTV
Nohadra Radio - Sydney
15.02.2012
