
Abboud Zeitoune
Because of the Lebanese civil war the family was forced to immigrate to Germany in 1984. In Germany I continued my studies and graduated from University of Trade and Economics in 1996, and now I am working for an international rail freight company (DB Cargo) as Compliance Manager.
Worked in Assyrian national field, and became a member of many organizations in Germany, including the Assyrian Beth-Nahrin culture and sport association in Wiesbaden, and a long membership in the Assyrian Democratic Organization.
From 1987 I particpated in regular activities, like festivals, lectures and meetings of the Assyrian Beth-Nahrin association in Wiesbaden. There I was responsible for several tasks (such as leader of youth group and university graduates group). I was elected as chairman of this association for 3 periods (2000-2001 and 2008-2012). Since 2008 I am also chairman of the Mor Afrem Foundation (established by Dr. Samir Afram), which is a charity organization and support Assyrian project around the world.
I edited and published many articles in known Assyrian magazines in Europe like, (Shrogo), (Shemsho) and (Funoyo) Magazines. Became interested in Assyrian music from an early age, and embarked in a project to collect all the known Assyrian music records, and that work resulted in publishing the first Assyrian Music Discography book, published in Germany in 2007 (Music Pearls of Beth-Nahrin, an Assyrian/Syriac Discography). Since then I gave many lectures on the history and heritage of Assyrian music in Germany and outside. I was twice a member of the judge committee of the Syriac Music Awards ceremony in Sweden and Switzerland.
In cooperation with SuroyoTV (a Sweden based Assyrian channel) I produced in 2012/13 a 22 parts series where I introduced the chronology of modern Assyrian music to the viewers ( check video section ).
In my second work (Modern Assyrian Music) published in 2015 I completed missed issues from his first book. So both books represent now the whole discography of Assyrian Music of the last 100 years. Beside that I own the largest digital and material collection of Assyrian music records worldwide.
In 2016 I worked in cooperation with the Assyrian Youth Association of Germany (AJM) on a third book (Music Heritage of Mesopotamia). A song book containing the lyrics and mp3-files on DVD of 145 selected songs in eastern and western Assyrian.
In 2020 my first book including writings of Naum Faiq
(1868-1930), one of the founding fathers of assyrian nationalism was published.
Currently I am working on a German and a English version of the book of Naum Faiq writings.
Currently I am working on a German and a English version of the book of Naum Faiq writings.
I am a happy family man with my wife Wafa and our three children (Tuma, Sibora and Lebaryo).