1883-1975
She was born in Qoganis Turkey). She belonged to a religious family, and she was the first female performer in e choir of the Church of the East. She was agonized by her people’s tragedies: the massacres and forced evacuation from their hometown during the First World War. She was also horrified by the murder of her brother Patriarch Mar Shimon Benyamin in 191A in the Iranian city of Kona Shahr, and she wrote a chapter about his assassination. She become the guardian of her nephew (the son of her younger brother Mar Shimon Ishai) after the death of her other brother Mar Shimon Paulis in 19Y In 1414-19Y. she participated in the Paris Peace Conference of 1111 to discuss the fate of her people. She also participated in the meetings of the League of Nations in Geneva in 9Yo, After the Sumeal massacre in rr, she was exiled to Cyprus, and in 14r she left for Britain, and in 101 she ended up in San Francisco and finally in the Daly City in the USA, where she died. She had a book in English entitled ‘The Traditions of the Assyrian Church and Assassination of Mar Shimon’ (London 1920 ).
