The CSSS is a Toronto-based
organization whose mission consists of promoting the study of the Syriac
culture, a crossroad between the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and
Aramean civilizations and Eastern Christendom, and a link between the
Semitic and
Greek-Roman worlds
The Society was founded in 1999 at the
University of Toronto, Department
of Near and Middle Eastern
Civilizations, as part of the latter’s academic programme in Aramaic and
Syriac languages and literatures. It was
incorporated under the Canada Corporations
Act in
January 23, 1999
