2024

‡Assyrian Arts Institute. Scoring for the operatic work, Gilgamesh. Grant amount: $10,000.

‡Translation and publication of booklet History of the Village of Urmia by the late E.I. Gevargizov and materials related to the Assyrian diaspora in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Grant amount: $3,000.

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2023

‡AGN SAT Assyrian Book Club. Grant amount: $6,000. Book List

‡Bet Kanu Syriac for the Digital Age. Children’s graphic novels, songs and stories in the two living Aramaic dialects of the Assyrian global community. $5,000

‡Assyrian Digital Library. Starting the digitization of the periodical Kokhva (Urmia 1906-1918) and creating OCR capability. $5000

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2022

‡AAI Spotlight On, Assyrian Women, "Joy of Christmas" 2022 Concert performance video. Grant amount: $5,000. Assyrian Arts Institute.

‡ From Qarajalu to Santa Clara (Sunnyvale, CA). April 3- June 5, 2022. Co-funded with a $15,000 grant from the Assyrian Foundation of America. Exhibited at the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum. Videos: 1. Qarajalu Promo Video (AGN TV) 2. Lecture: "New Urmia in Place of the Old" by Dr. Arianne Ishaya (AGN TV).

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2019

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night (San Jose, CA). October 2019. Grant amount: $15,000.

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2018

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night (San Jose, CA). October 2018. Grant amount: $15,000. Purpose: Mesopotamian Night general fund for new material.

‡Bet Kanu. Digital children’s Assyrian anguage materials. Grant amount: $6,000. Purpose: To promote, under the leadership of Akkad Saadi, 1) The employment of talented artists and IT youth so they can stay in Qamishli, Syria, 2) Produce digital language materials for global Assyrian children in the two spoken dialects.

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2017

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night (San Jose, CA). October 7, 2016. Grant amount: $17,000. Verdi Recital: "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate" / "Fly, thought, on golden wings" from Nabucco (Italian translated into Aramaic). Purpose: for translation of Verdi’s "Va, pensiero," known in English as the "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from his 1842 opera about Assyrians. Yosip Bet Yosip was commissioned to translate for performance on October 7, 2017 in Assyrian Aramaic, the original language in which the Hebrew slaves might have chanted such a lament. This translation will be available for a future production of the full Nabucco opera in Aramaic.

‡Bet Kanu. Syriac language videos for children. Grant amount: $5,000.

‡OOJAABAA. Grant Amount: $2500. Purpose: Create music for a future musical based on the first epic of the world, Gilgamesh Method: composer (Edwin Elieh) and poet (Yosep Bet Yosep) collaborate to produce a CD of music based on the Gilgemesh Epic. This is anticipated to be an Assyrian Aramaic “first” since the original 8th Century BC preserved tablets (found in the library of Ashurbanipal) are in Akkadian.

‡Ninos Chammo. Grant Amount: $2000. Purpose: Preservation of Nauom Faik archival digitizing in New Jersey and preservation at Harvard University.

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2016

‡ Assyrian National Broadcasting: Six reviews of Assyrian Books and Interviews with Authors. Grant amount: $6,000. Purpose: Assyrian Book Review TV Show (Marwakhta-d Yulpanan Expanding Our Knowledge). Host Maryam Shamalta promotes Assyrian writers and books regarding Assyrians per month, for a year. Method: Interview takes place at ANB studio (San Jose, CA) or remotely via Skype and conducted in Assyrian (Aramaic) when possible. YouTube and other channels for other viewers to watch. Interviewed Ninos Hanna (Legacy for Life), Jan 17, 2017.

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night (San Jose, CA). August 19, 2016. Grant amount: $10,000. Purpose: Mesopotamian Night general fund for new material.

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2015

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night (San Jose, CA). August 1, 2015. Grant amount: $20,000. Purpose: To develop new artistic materials.

‡ Mesopotamian Night, Los Angeles, CA. February 23, 2015. Grant amount: $3000. Purpose: To support the production of expansion of MN to other Assyrian hubs. Program under the direction of producer Marodin Thomaszadeh.

‡ Atwāteh D-Lishānī Atorāyā: My Assyrian Language Alphabet by Julia Sorisho Rodgers. (available for purchase in 2016) Grant amount: $1500. Purpose: Printing of children’s book Atwāteh D-Lishānī Atorāyā: My Assyrian Language Alphabet by Julia Sorisho Rodgers.

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2014

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night (San Jose, CA). June 21, 2016. Grant amount: $15,000.

‡ Shamiram Assyrian Women's Association, Tehran Program, Performance for Peace. Grant amount: $500.

‡ Animating the Word: The Calligraphic Traditions of Iran's Minorities, Talley Beck Contemporary Gallery, New York City. Grant amount: $1206.

‡ Khaywate D'Khaqla (Farm Animals): An Assyrian Language Bedtime Book for Babies, Toddlers, and Preschoolers by Julia Sorisho Rodgers. Grant amount: $1250.     

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2013

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night, San Jose, CA. June 15, 2013. Grant amount: $10,000.

‡ Dr. Nicholas Al-Jeloo: Honorarium for lecture, Armenian and Assyrian Cooperation and Co-habitation in Iran's Urmia Region, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), December 18, 2013 (Belmont, MA). Grant amount: $300.

‡ Editing for Youtube video of above: Armenian and Assyrian Cooperation and Co-habitation in Iran's Urmia Region. Grant amount: $425.

‡ Support for illustrations for publication of the results of the 1989-90 excavations at the Hazli Gate of Nineveh, the last Assyrian Empire capital. In response to Prof. David Stronach’s request for funding for the preparation of illustrations needed for the publication he is completing, the Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture is pleased to avail itself of the opportunity to advance in depth knowledge of the ancient Assyrian world and its magnificent architectural achievements. 

Prof. Stronach writes: “By extraordinary chance my excavations at the Hazli Gate (at the end of Niniveh’s long east wall) revealed clear evidence of how this gate was attached, damaged and repaired and how the last defenders of the Gate were still engaged in close combat with the attackers when the roof collapsed and all the persons in that location were buried by falling debris that remained undisturbed for the next 2,700 years.”

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2012

‡ Assyrian Aid Society of America, Berkeley, CA: Mesopotamian Night 2012 Concert, The Musical Malek Rama, February 18, 2012, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Please visit http://www.mesopotamian-night.org/2011/04/making-musical-malek-rama-assyrian.html to learn more about the NFAFC contribution to Mesopotamian Night 2012. To order cds and videos of Mesopotamian Night please visit http://www.mesopotamian-night.org/p/shop.html. NFAFC is honored to have been associated with Mesopotamian Night, especially in its 5th year, a particular highlight. Photographer for Mesopotamian Night 2012 Concert: Ashur Mansour.

‡ Conversion of analog poetry tapes of Hannibal Alkhas (1930-2010) to digital format. Hannibal Alkhas was a sculptor, painter and author. Among many other artistic endeavors, Hannibal Alkhas created book illustrations, wrote and translated many poems to and from Assyrian. His works have been displayed in numerous exhibitions in Iran, Europe, Canada, Australia and the US.

‡ University of Akron, Akron, OH: Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project, in partnership with University of Cambridge, U.K., http://www3.uakron.edu/ziyaret/
http://www.ane.arch.cam.ac.uk/research/ziyaret.html. NFAFC is pleased to have supported the conference in December 2012 at Cambridge, UK on Assyrian Archeology.