Rosie Malek-Yonan ( رزی ملک یونان ) was born on the fourth of July, 1955.
She is an actress, director, producer, published author, documentary filmmaker, a classically trained pianist, composer and a human rights activist. She is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian Christian families from the Middle-East, tracing her Assyrian roots back nearly eleven centuries. The Malek Family was a famous tribe that set roots in the Assyrian village of Geogtapah in the Urmia region o
...f Northwestern Iran.
In the late 18th century, Geogtapah became the setting for the famous tragic love story of Aslee and Karam. Aslee, a young woman from the House of Malek who fell in love with a commoner named Karam. After the two lovers met their untimely death, a stone well was built in Geogtapah as a memorial to Aslee where travelers often stopped to hear the tragic story from the locals that compared to that of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In 1912, the Azerbaijani composer, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, composed the Aslee and Karam Opera.
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