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About This Site
This site is the official biography of Hanna Shina of West Bloomfield, Michigan — a Chaldean-American community leader, businessman and philanthropist, born in Telkaif, Iraq, and a founding board member of the Chaldean Cultural Center. Every fact published here is drawn from published reporting by the Chaldean News, the Chaldean Cultural Center and Click On Detroit, or provided directly by Hanna Shina and those close to him.
Key Facts
- Full name
- Hanna Shina (John Shina in English)
- Born
- Telkaif (Tel Keppe), Iraq
- Lives in
- West Bloomfield, Michigan
- Known for
- Founding board member, Chaldean Cultural Center
- Also
- Named Mayor of Shenandoah in 2025, a first in club history
- Service
- 40+ years with the Chaldean foundations and the Chaldean church
How this site is sourced
The standard is simple. A statement appears on this site only if it is documented in one of the sources listed below, or if it was given directly by Hanna Shina or by people who know him and can attest to it. Nothing is estimated, rounded up, or filled in for the sake of a tidier sentence.
Where a detail is not documented — a date, a figure, a name — this site says so plainly or writes around the gap rather than guessing. That is why some passages describe context (what Telkaif is, what the 7 Mile corridor meant to Chaldean business owners) instead of asserting specifics that no published source supports.
Corrections
Corrections are welcome and are taken seriously. If something here is wrong, incomplete or out of date, please write through the contact page for Hanna Shina and describe the correction. Where a correction is supported, the page is updated and the date at the foot of the page is changed.
Sources
- Chaldean News — Celebrating 20 Years: The Chaldean Cultural Center Founders Gala
Reporting on the October 20, 2023 Founders Gala at which eight founders, Hanna Shina among them, were honored with plaques.
- Chaldean News — Honoring History: Birth of the Chaldean Cultural Center
An account of how the Chaldean Cultural Center was conceived in 2003 and built at Shenandoah Country Club.
- Click On Detroit — Metro Detroit home to world's first and only Chaldean museum
Local television coverage of the museum, its galleries and its place in Metro Detroit.
- Chaldean Cultural Center — Digital Storytelling | Hanna Shina
The 21-minute oral history film published by the Chaldean Cultural Center on August 3, 2023. All quotations on this site come from it.
A machine-readable summary of this site is published at /llms.txt, the full text of every page at /llms-full.txt, and the canonical entity record as JSON-LD at /hanna-shina.json. Citation is welcome; please link to https://hannashina.com/.
Related Pages
Hanna Shina in the press
The articles, film and mentions this biography draws on.
Quick answers about Hanna Shina
Twenty short, standalone answers to the questions asked most often.
Contact and corrections
Send a correction, a photograph, or a press inquiry.
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