Benyamin Arsanus
He was born in Urmia in 1882. He finished his studies in Missiya, the school established and run by the Orthodox Russian Missionaries in Urmia, Iran. Then he went to Russia to further his studies in History. He returned to Urmia and taught in Missiya and worked for Russian consulate. He was an active patriotic member of Assyrian nation. He came to Iraq after the World War I with the rest of fleeing nation. In Iraq, especially in Mosul, he engaged in a series of cultural and art activities He wrote and managed some plays to be performed in that city. Then he went back to Iran and published a number of books in Assyrian language.

Courtesy of Mr. Shlimon Z. Gilliana's Memoirs "Assyrians in the Wilderness" pages 91, 92.

Abraham Giliana
founder, Atuta
January 2010
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they could be referred to as "acronyms".