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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (30681)	4/3/2003 1:20:31 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

Yes Tarik Aziz is Christian... but they are only a couple of percent of population I think.. many left for overseas as elsewhere in the Middle East. The Jewish community there is a few thousand only now. Would also have been 1-2% in the early 20th century. I understood that "Assyrians" are people who belong to the Assyrian church. I think that is the one that has an Aramaic liturgy still (trying to remember from the course I took on the Historical Geography of Jerusalem as a 1st year undergrad at Hebrew University :)). There are some villages in Syria and maybe still in Iraq where Aramaic was still spoken. Aramaic was the language of inland Syria originally and then spread over most of the fertile crescent before the Arab conquest. OK more info: cnewa.org Seems Chaldeans are Iraqi Catholics and Assyrians are Iraqi/Syrian Orthodox.

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (30681)	4/3/2003 5:02:30 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Every year the Smithsonian has a folk life festival that sets up tents on the Mall in Washington, DC. Last summer the theme was the Silk Road, with musicians, folk artists, cooks, story tellers, etc., from the Silk Road from China to Italy. I was fascinated by an Assyrian group that sang and danced because they reminded me very much of traditional Greek dances I see every year at Greek festivals - the costumes, the music, and the dancing all very reminiscent to my eyes. When they finished, and were leaving the stage, I stopped one of them to discuss this. He didn't know anything about how the Greeks do it but said that the Assyrians had been doing it this way for thousands of years.