1903-1983
Poet, translator, and linguist, was born in Qarabash, Diyarbakir (Turkey),he studied at Al-Zaafaran monastery, Mardin. In 1922 he immigrated to Aleppo and then to Beirut, where he worked as a teacher of Syria in the Syriac orphanage. Then he moved to Jerusalem and lived there 15 years then in 1951 moved to Qamishli’s schools in Syria to teach Syriac and writing Textbooks until his death. He wrote a series of textbooks to teach Syriac (10V)
From his important books: The grammar of Syriac language / The Syriac literature / selected poems and wine poems / historical plays as: Sharukin 1, the fall of Nineveh, under the shadow of the Babylon Gardens. He translated into Syriac the history of Chaldo-Athor by Addai Sheir, Al-Khayam’s quatrains, “The Prophet” and “Jesus the Son of Man” by Gibran Khalil Gibran, the horticulturist By Taghor, the faces by Mikhail Naima, and the Epic of Gilgamesh
