PhotographAA-0245

R. Naayem, father of Joseph Naayem

Date: 20th century

Head-and-shoulders portrait of an older man in a fez and dark coat, captioned as the father of the author Joseph Naayem. Naayem's book recounts the 1915 massacres of Assyro-Chaldean Christians.

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Naayem, Shall This Nation Die? (1921), via Internet Archive

Joseph Naayem (author); photographer not named · Published 1921 in New York (Chaldean Rescue); public domain in the United States.

R. Naayem, father of Joseph Naayem

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