Biography
Dr. Aziz Emmanuel Al-Zebari is lecturer in the Department of English, College of Arts, the Catholic University in Erbil, KR, Iraq where he is primarily involved in teaching English Arabic /Arabic English translation and Syntax to undergraduate students.
Dr. Al- Zebari holds Ph.D. in Linguistics/ Endangered Language Documentation from the University of Salahaddin in Erbil, KR, Iraq. In his Ph.D. Dissertation, he has documented the endangered Neo-Aramaic Dialects of the Aqra Region in KR, Iraq. He has also published articles on other aspects of the grammar of the dialects.
He also holds MA in Linguistics/ Translation from the University of Mosul. He has has published many books translated from English to Arabic and vice versa.
He is currently engaged in documenting the The North Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects (NENA) in collabouration with Cambridge University. He is a collabourator of a Comparative Anthology of Neo-Aramaic and Kurdish Folklore from Northern Iraq (Vol.1,2) ; published by Cambridge University.
Dr. Al Zebari has also worked as editorial translator and standby correspondent with Reuters in Baghdad and senior translator and media officer with UNFAO.
Recently, he has achieved the translation of a book from Arabic on the Ottoman massacre of the Chaldean, Syriac, Assyrian people titled " Safar Berlik : The Ottoman Massacres: Slaughter and Persecution of Chaldean, Assyrian, Syriac, and Armenian Christians (1914-1918) (Melbourne, Australia).
