W illiam Y. Mikhail, was born in Basrah, Southern Iraq on July, 29^th, 1949. His father, Yousif Youkhana, was from (Diana-Arbel), Assyria (northern Iraq today). He joined the Assyrian uprising in 1933, this uprising was suppressed by the Iraqi government, and 4500 Assyrians mostly women, children and elderly were massacred.

When the Assyrian Levies was dissolved, his mother’s father Esho Lazar, an officer in the Assyrian Army, which was formed to support the British Army, moved to the city of Basrah where William's parents Yousif Youkhana of Diana-Arbel and Yolia Esho Lazar of Baghdad, met and got married. William grew up in the city of Basrah, and this is where he completed his elementary, Intermediate and high school ecucation and was admited to the University of Basrah in 1969.

William's interest in politics had an early start. This was prompted by his own eye witness of the suffering of our Assyrian people due to the abuse of power of the Iraqi government system. William recalls, "My people were denied Iraqi citizenship after thousands of years living in their own land".

Since immigrating to the United States in 1976, William has been living in Chicago, where he attended DeVry institute and Wright college while working for Zenith electronics corporation.

While working and attending college, William's interest in Middle East and world politics affecting our Assyrian nation drove him to active involvement in Bet Nahrain Democratic Party in 1977. He has written many political articles in Assyrian and Arabic languages for Assyrian newspapers and magazines.

Published Works:

• " The Assyrian history in twentieth century especially between the two world wars" An Arabic translation from the original Assyrian published by Rabi Koresh Yaco Shlimon .

• "The Holy Fathers of the Assyrian Church in the 4^th and 5^th Centuries" Translated from the original Assyrian published by the Most Rev. Dr. Mar Aprem Metropolitan of India.

UnPublished Works:

• "Assyrian case for autonomy ".

• " This day in History" William has gathered information about day to day events through the twentieth century that affected Assyrians, this is written in English.

• "Balaam the Assyrian Prophet" A translation from the original English by Dr. Sargon Dadesho.

• " Exclamation Of A Trumpet" translating to Arabic, a book about views in Assyrian politics.

Other Contributions:

• William is an associate editor of the Assyrian Guardian Newspaper;

• Arabic language editor of the "The Messenger" the electronic magazine of the Assyrian church of the East.

• Regular contributer to the "The Voice Of The East", published by the Assyrian Church of the East.

• Regular contributer to the "Assyrian Star " magazine.