We are glad to announce that most of Mesopotamian Night content is now available through vimeo.com on demand section. The current selection includes MN2008, MN2009, MN2010, MN2012, MN2013, MN2014 and the last and newest release MN2015.

One of our great traditions at Mesopotamian Night has been show casing and live auctioning of Assyrian artists. This year, with the help of cinematographer Sargon Saadi, who visited Khabour Valley in Syria and documented the atrocities committed by ISIS, we will show case and auction a piece by Fadi Khiyo. 

Giuseppe Verdi established himself as a major 19th century Italian composer in 1842 with the opera Nabucco and its powerful chorus. 

The poem "Mam Shallou" is used as the basis for the creation of an Operatorio with the same name for Mesopotamian Night 2017 production in San Jose.  In the article below, Mr. Marcel Josephson gives a historical and literary review of the poem. Mr. Marcel Josephson has been a sponsor, and a consulting scholar for the Mesopotamian Night project. In December 2016, after a consultation with Mr. Josephson, we decided to choose this poem as a basis for our 2017 production.  

We are delighted to announce that the Mesopotamian Night team is making good progress in bringing to life the work of prolific Assyrian writer David Elian (1910-2001) called “Maam Shallou”

Have heard of Aramaic? Do you know the difference between Aramaic and Armenian? Aramaic and Armenian are as different as Hebrew and Russian. Aramaic, like Hebrew, is a Semitic language of huge historical significance.

Our luck this year has changed and Assyrian recording artist and composer Linda George will be performing some of her most popular songs live for the first time accompanied by the Mesopotamian Night Symphony Orchestra.

The history of choirs can be traced to millennia before Christ. It is known that in ancient Assyria there were choirs accompanying musicians in processions. After converting to Christianity many kind of musical presentations disappeared.

Our program inspires individuals such as pianist Elena Akopova who came to the US to continue her piano studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under professor Mack McCray, and in the process reignited her passion for Assyrian history, culture, and identity.

Modern Aramaic makes a comeback as a language of entertainment By Eden Naby In 2007 when at the FEL annual conference (Kuala Lumpur) the participants adopted a resolution recognizing Aramaic as the oldest continuously written and spoken language of the Middle East, Assyrians, the main speakers of modern Aramaic, were already on the run for their lives in Iraq.