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Abdulmesih BarAbraham MSc.

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Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 07:07 PM UT | Updated: November 06, 2025

Abdulmesih BarAbraham is a native of Midyat and migrated to Germany as a young teenager in 1967 as part of family reunification. There, he completed his secondary education and high school. He holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Erlangen/Nürnberg, where he also gained knowledge in Near Eastern history and languages (Syriac, Turkish, and Arabic).

From 1979 to 1983, he served as the first state-certified interpreter for modern Assyrian-Aramaic to translate asylum appeals at Germany’s Central Emigration Office in Zirndorf near Nürnberg; he translated more than 2,000 cases.

In his professional career, he worked for an international German corporation in Munich, Germany, and Santa Clara, California, in various management positions.

As an independent researcher he has published numerous articles including book chapters in different languages on Assyrian related topics, such as the minority situation in the Middle East, genocide, migration, and diaspora.

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.