Coming Together in Skokie: Community unites around Assyrian culture
20.05.12
Alen Takhsh admits that as a child, he didn’t take his father all too seriously when he would burst with pride about the importance of his Assyrian heritage.
“Any word, any concept, anything I may have held in my hands, he would find a way to tell me how the Assyrians were behind that,” the Skokie lawyer recalled. “I mean that literally.”
Takhsh said he tried to run away from these conversations when he was a kid; he was young and he really didn’t care all that much, he admits.
“However, growing up, growing older, I soon realized he was right,” Takhsh said.
Assyrian history is tied to the world’s first irrigation system, the first codification of human rights, the fact that there are 360 degrees in a circle and 180 degrees in a triangle, the first musical note and the oldest written literature known to humankind.
“And that’s just the tip of the iceberg,” Takhsh said.
Source: Skokie Review