Ninos Aho

Ninos Aho (Classical Syriac: ܢܝܢܘܣ ܐܚܐ; April 24, 1945 – July 15, 2013), was an Assyrian poet and activist.

[citation needed] Malfono Ninos Aho was born to an Assyrian family in the small village of Gerkeh-Shamo in Syria.

After residing in the United States for twenty years, Malfono Ninos returned to Syria with his wife, Ogareet, and their four children in order to authentically promote his belief in the Assyrian cause.

[1] Malfono Ninos Aho was involved in Assyrian nationalist activism at an early age.

[2] He gained wider popularity after emigrating to the United States and his poems were performed by prominent Middle Eastern musicians such as Ninib A. Lahdo and Wadi al-Safi.