Brooklyn, Usa

For over three thousand years, the Aramaic language has been used throughout Mesopotamia. In Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a community of Syrian immigrants preserves this ancient language – and a connection to their homeland – through prayer and song. • Brooklyn, USA is produced by Emily Boghossian, Shirin Barghi, Charlie Hoxie, Khyriel Palmer, and Mayumi Sato. If you have something to say and want us to share it on the show, here’s how you can send us a message: https://bit.ly/2Z3pfaW• Thank you to Professor Geoffrey Khan, Safaa Jalou, Father Gabriel Adde, the St. George Syriac Orthodox Church in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and Nadège Fleurimond.• LINKSProfessor Geoffrey Khan studies, teaches, and documents the various dialects of Neo-Aramaic. You can learn more about his work and hear field recordings at https://nena.ames.cam.ac.uk/Nadège Fleurimond is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, business strategist, and culinary maven from East Flatbush, Brooklyn. She is the author of Taste of Solitude: A Culinary Journal, and Haiti