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b'Episode 192 - William D.S. Daniel can be considered an Assyrian icon in our modern day history. He was a prolific Assyrian writer, musician, and composer, credited with creating some of the earliest original Assyrian music and responsible for the artistic and cultural advancement of his people. He also created the \\u201cEpic of Kateeni Gabbara\\u201d that not only revived a dying Assyrian epic, but also exposed the beauty and potentiality of the modern Assyrian language as a medium of poetry and dramatic expression. The epic is written in three volumes and contains over 7,000 verses. In this episode, Dr. Arianne Ishaya, the author of William Daniel\\u2019s biography, \\u201cWilliam Daniel, the Portrait of an Assyrian Icon\\u201d, takes us through the journey of his life and legacy.\\xa0\\nAbout the guest:\\xa0\\nDr. Arianne Ishaya was born in Urmia - a town in Northwestern Iran with a large Assyrian population.\\xa0 She obtained her master\\u2019s degree in Anthropology from the University of Manitoba, and her Ph.D. from UCLA in Cultural Anthropology. Her publications include: \\u201cNew Lamps for Old\\u201d, which documents the remarkable history of the Assyrian colony in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada. The Assyrians were among the very first settlers of the region. The family histories in this book reveal the success story of a people who built a human chain across thousands of miles and gradually reunited separated husbands and wives, parents and offspring, and reconstituted their families.\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nThe detailed family histories in another of her publications, \\u201cFamiliar Faces in Unfamiliar Places\\u201d take the reader to the world at large from where the members of this dispersed refugee nation have come together to form the Turlock-Modesto colony in the heartland of California. It contains poignant accounts of a people who started out with modest beginnings; but whether they came as penniless hopefuls in search of farmland, or traumatized refugees from the Middle East, they worked hard and were able to establish themselves as a stable and even well-to-do part of the Turlock-Modesto community.\\n\\xa0\\nShe wrote the biography of William Daniel titled \\u201cWilliam Daniel, Portrait of An Assyrian Icon\\u201d published in 2015. Her most recent works are a reprint of the three volumes of \\u201cKateeni Gabbara\\u201d, and \\u201cDiscourse on the Spelling Method in The Assyrian Language\\u201d by William Daniel published in 2022. She also translated \\u201cThe Last Days of Atla Kandi\\u201d by Eddie Davoud from Farsi into English published in 2022. Currently, she is working on documenting the post-World War I history of Assyrians in the two towns of Hamadan and Kermanshah, Iran.\\n\\xa0\\nYou can connect with Dr. Arianne Ishaya at arian_ishaya@yahoo.com\\xa0\\n\\xa0\\nTo inquire about purchasing William Daniel\\u2019s poetry books, \\u201cThe Epic of Kateeni Gabbara\\u201d, \\u201cWilliam Daniel, Portrait of An Assyrian Icon\\u201d, and/or others, please reach out to info@aaasj.org.\\xa0\\n\\nEpisode musical references:\\xa0\\nKubelik: Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"\\xa0\\nWilliam Daniel\\u2019s, \\u201cSpinning Wheel\\u201d sung by Lorraine Davis\\nWilliam Daniel\\u2019s, \\u201cNineveh\\u201d sung by Janelle Yausif\\n\\xa0\\nAudio of the Epic of Kateeni Gabbara\\n\\xa0\\nOutro:\\xa0\\nTribute to William Daniel: speech by William Daniel (1986)\\nWilliam Daniel\\u2019s, \\u201cMarganita\\u201d sung by Albert Shahbaz\\nWilliam Daniel\\u2019s \\u201cLullaby\\u201d sung by Christina (Tina) Boosahda Harrell\\nWilliam Daniel\\u2019s, \\u201cShara\\u201d sung by Water Aziz\\xa0\\n\\nOther resources:\\nhttps://www.assyrianfoundation.org/files/2003-1new.pdf\\xa0\\nhttps://www.qeenatha.com/artists/WilliamDaniel/92/\\xa0\\nhttps://www.assyrianfoundation.org/files/2000-3.pdf'