Sam Sweeney

Ultimately, the future of Aramaic as a living language is tied to the future of those speaking it. As the speakers of the language have fled the Middle East to America, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere, the language has traveled with them. But it will be difficult for it to survive so far away from its homeland.

this essay is part three of a three-part series by sam sweeney, a writer and translator based in the middle east, who wrote most recently fo...

In places like northeastern Syria, southern Turkey, and northern Iraq, local dialects remain the spoken language of surviving but dwindling communities.

this essay is part two of a three-part series by sam sweeney, a writer and translator based in the middle east, who wrote most recently for ...

Iraq's Christians are heirs of a long linguistic tradition that dates back well before Christ, a tradition now tied to their fate.

a view of the entrance of the syriac catholic church of the immaculate conception (al-tahira-l-kubra), in the predominantly christian town o...

ISIS destroyed the village church of Tel Hormiz, one of the last homes of the Church of the East. <I>Sam Sweeney</I> Reports

tel tamer, syria – the village church of tel hormiz, syria, was dedicated to saint pethyon, a third-century saint of the assyrian tradition ...

the churches of raqqa lie in ruins following the defeat of isis. but remarkably the city’s christian community has survived. before the syri...