Sabah Michael YacoubSabah 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 andreceived a higher degree from the United Kingdom. He spent years of his life practicing his specialty of internal medicine and cardiology. He moved from Baghdad to the United Kingdom after the Allied invasion of Iraq. Then migrated to North America traveling between Canada and 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 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 How Much? that is in your hands now, and Flashes Of The Present Pain. currently in print Additionally, Sabah is a writer who writes on various topics in his mother tongue in ankawa.com website, alqosh.net website, 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. Married with two daughters and one son. His wisdom in life It does not matter who you are, but to be elite in what you are . 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. That is him, Sabah . sabahyacoub2008@yahoo.ca . Read More Read Less