Abdulmesih BarAbraham MSc.Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 07:07 PM UT | Updated: January 19, 2022
Abdulmesih BarAbraham is native of Midyat and migrated in the course of family reunification as a young teenager 1967 to Germany, where he completed his secondary education and high school. He has a Master of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg., where he gained knowledge in Near Eastern history and languages (Syriac, Turkish and Arabic). Among others, he is the author of "Turkey’s Key Arguments in Denying the Assyrian Genocide," in David Gaunt et. al. (Eds.), Let Them Not Return (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017); and (with Jan Bet-Sawoce), "Repression, Discrimination, Assimilation, and Displacement of East and West Assyrians in the Turkish Republic," in Fikret Başkaya and Sait Çetinoglu (Eds.), Minorities in Turkey (Ankara: Özgür Universite Kitaplığı [Resmi Tarih Tartışmaları], 2009). He is also the author of “Safeguarding the Cross: Emergence of Christian Militias in Iraq and Syria,” in Andreas Schmoller (Ed.), Middle Eastern Christians and Europe - Historical Legacies and Present Challenges (Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2018). Abdulmesih is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of both, the Yoken-bar-Yoken Foundation and Mor Afrem Foundation, Germany. He is also the secretary of the Suryoye Theological Seminary in Salzburg, Austria. |