1858 – 1915
He was a teacher and a journalist. He was born in the Turkish town of Kharbot, from which he got his surname. He completed the primary and secondany studies in his hometown, and he finished his undergraduate study in Istanbul. He taught at his hometown of Izmir, in Amed (Diyarbakir), and in Antioch. He was awarded the State Medal of the Arts, and he became a professor. He was appointed as an instructor in the American College of Euphrates in Kharbot in 1914, He was a social reformer calling for national unity and avoiding sectarianism. In 1910. he published the newspaper ‘Murshid Alathuriyeen’ (the Advisor of Assyrians), which lasted 5 years, and was the first national newspaper published in both Syriac and Arabic using mimeograph. This newspaper dealt with literature, religion, discipline and history, and in it he called for unity of the nation by spreading the native language and culture among its citizens. He was martyred in the massacres of 1915, Most of his works in Turkish, Syriac and Arabic are lost. The American writer Sim Alice Bilkawil’ managed to collect some of his works, and published them in a printed book in English.
