1892 – 1942
He was born in Alqush. He entered religious orders at the School of the Dominican Fathers in Mosul, and was ordained a priest in 1915. He served his hometown as a priest, a teacher and an instructor of the Holy Communion Brotherhood until his death. He was fluent in French and Latin, as well as Syriac, Arabic and Kurdish. He prepared and directed his first Syriac play entitled ‘Qalʼat Osmawa’ (Osmawa Castle), which was the second Syriac play in Alqush. He had also three books about teaching Syriac entitled ‘Spilta’, which were printed in the thirties of the twentieth century in Mosul. He had Syriac poems and songs, too.
