Mesopotamia

Resurrection

“How many Armenians are there in the city?” I ask the young doorman. “Maybe we are six or seven families”, he replies. I wish the rebirth of this church would also mean the survival of the community.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

And the three walls are in fact covered with sculptures, or more precisely, reliefs. Standing men in tall, peaked hats and knee-length tunics, in the style of the Parthian – i.e. Hellenized Persian – art of the 2nd and 3rd century

The Red Church

“A Christian tombstone. You know, this is a Christian church. Here there were Christians and Jews, that is, giaours”, he uses a term with absolute nonchalance which I thought was used the last time by the 16th-century Ottoman conquerors

Northern Mesopotamia, minute by minute

In Diyarbakır at ten o’clock in the evening, there is still a lot of life. The teahouses, cafés, pastry shops, restaurants, and the terraces of the caravanserais are full, people are chatting over tea at small tables in the square in front of the Great Mosque, Kurdish musicians are playing, singing and dancing in the streets

But what happened to the Jews?

Messages from Mesopotamia

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