Amir Harrak Translator & Editor

Amir Harrak is Professor of Aramaic and Syriac at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Canada. He is the Chief Editor of the Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies (Journal of the CSSS) and the founder and the current president of the CSSS. He has a doctorate in Assyriology from the University of Toronto and two Licence degrees in Art History and Oriental Philology from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. His latest publications include The Chronicle of Zuqnīn Parts I–II from the Creation to the Year 506/7 AD (2017); The Monastery of Mar Behnam à la période Atabeg – XIII^e S.: L’Art au Service de la Foi, Cahiers d’Études Syriaques 5 (2018); and The Chronicle of Michael the Syrian: Books XV–XXI (2019).