Shuraya Party

The Shuraya Party (Syriac: ܫܘܖܝܐ Arabic: حزب شوريا) is a political organisation that represents the Christian Assyrian community in Lebanon since the late 1970s.

The Shuraya Party was first established on 25 July, 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon, when the country was engulfed by the civil war.

It is composed of "free philosophers" of different Eastern Church origins, who regard themselves as Assyrians.

The Shuraya leadership insists they are not bound by any Church, but rejects the reproach of being anti-Christian.

The party established its own magazine in Lebanon in the 1980s, dubbed Shuraya, and also opened its own radio show named My Voice, to the wave of FM-radio.

4th Assyrian battalion with lamassu flag