Sabah Michael Yacoub

Sabah Michael Yacoub was born in Iraq from a Chaldean family descended from the native inhabitants who entered Christianity in the era of St.Thomas the Apostle, one of the Twelve disciples of Jesus Christ.

He graduated from Baghdad Medical School and received a higher degree from the United Kingdom. He spent years of his life practising his specialty of internal medicine and cardiology.

He moved from Baghdad to the United Kingdom after the Allied invasion of Iraq. Then, he migrated to North America travelling between Canada and the United States.

Despite his scientific background, he has a deep inclination to knowledge culture in general and to poetry in particular. He started poetry writing during high school, but left his beautiful hobby only to return back to it recently.

Sabah was inspired by the tragic circumstances that have afflicted his motherland and by the injustice, displacement, and abuse of Christians, Sabians, and Yazidis minorities, as expressed in the two poetry quartets tagged "Tragedy: How Often and How Much?", and "Flashes of the Present Pain".

Additionally, Sabah is a writer who writes on various topics in his mother tongue on ankawa.com, alqosh.net, and some magazines and newspapers produced in the Diaspora.

His main interests are watching sports, especially soccer, and participating in various cultural and educational activities. He also loves collecting used books, especially religious and historical ones.

Sabah is married with two daughters and one son.

His wisdom in life "What matters is not your achievement, but to be creative in what you have achieved."

“It is a blessing gifted by God to anyone who grows a charming flower from a bud planted in a field not of his specialty.”

He can be reached at his email: sabahyacoub2013@gmail.com.