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Solomon (Sawa) Solomon: 1944

Mr. Solomon (Sawa) Solomon was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1944 from a Timari ancestry, his great grand-father was Malik Youkhanna Badawi of Timar. In 1962 Solomon moved to the United States, settling in Northern Michigan. Four years later he moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where he earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts in 1969.

In 1985 Solomon moved to Chicago where he developed an intense interest in modern Assyrian History, the following year, his articles started appearing in Assyrian publications in the U.S. and Britain but especially in Nineveh Magazine, published by the Assyrian Foundation of America, in Berkeley, California when he received much encouragement from its editor Julius Shabbas. The subject of his articles, almost always accompanied by rare photos, deal mainly from personalities, events and places in our centry. Solomon has written the following list of unpublished books.

Prominent Assyrians, A biographical book on modern personalities