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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Shamshone: Sun of Assyria: Five Generations of a Family from Iranian Azerbaijan

Shamshone: Sun of Assyria: Five Generations of a Family from Iranian Azerbaijan

Sarmecanic, Sam
Appleton, Brian Hanson

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesIran History

ISBN10: 0692873422
ISBN13: 9780692873427
Publisher: Brian H Appleton
Published: May 15 2017
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This is a biography and family history of five generations of an Assyrian Christian family as told through the eyes of the scion of their family Sam Sarmecanic. It begins with his grandparents generation and the flight to Iraq to escape genocide and covers his father's emigration to Chicago in the early 20th century by himself at age 9, his return to Urmia and Golpachan village as an adult, the agrarian life of seasonal migration between village and town, Sam's education in Tehran, his studies in London, his founding of a civil engineering firm which became one of the best in Iran, the revolution and emigrating with his family to San Jose, California to begin a new life.

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