Reading the Assyrian Aid Society’s Form 990s: What the Filings Show, and What They Don’t, About Nineveh Plain Money, 2019–2024

Every diaspora donor who writes a check to an Assyrian charity eventually asks the same question: did this money reach the Nineveh Plain? It is the right question. It is also a question that a Form 990, read alone, cannot answer. What the public filings of the Assyrian Aid Society of America (AAS-A, EIN 94-3147517)

The Period After ‘Meh’: Reading the Smallest Possible Statement on a Quirky Cotton Collective Shirt

The native garment preview for the Quirky Cotton Collective listing Meh Funny Sarcastic Introvert Minimalist Saying shows very small, centered lowercase lettering on a dark shirt. The word is meh. — four letters and a period. No animal illustration is present. No pride variant, no slogan stack, no distressed texture. The design’s entire argument is

Why the Iraqi National Card System Still Forces Assyrians to Register as ‘Christian’ Instead of ‘Assyrian’: A Case File From Hamdaniya

On March 14, 2023, an Assyrian family from the Hamdaniya district of Nineveh walked into the Federal Supreme Court and filed a petition challenging a refusal that had become routine. The National Card (البطاقة الوطنية) issued to them by the Hamdaniya Directorate of Passports and Nationality recorded their ethnicity as “Christian” (مسيحي) — the only