Sabro Bengaro

Mr. Bengaro was born in Arbo, Nisibin (Tur Abdin, Assyria), located in southeastern Turkey, the ancestral homeland of the Assyrian people. Due to political circumstances, he relocated to Austria before eventually settling in Sweden five years later. He holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Gothenburg, followed by a second master’s in Human Rights and Genocide Studies, a collaborative program from Kingston University in London, the University of Siena in Italy, the University of Warsaw in Poland, and Frankfurt University in Germany. His academic achievements further include a third master’s in History from Clark University in Massachusetts.

As the founder and director of the Seyfo Center (Assyrian Genocide Research Center), Mr. Bengaro is deeply engaged in historical research, currently pursuing a PhD in History at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on pivotal events concerning the Assyrian Genocide of 1915 specifically the impact of the Declaration of Jihad in 1914 and the role of the Kurds in the Assyrian Genocide of 1915. He continues to contribute immensely to worldwide awareness of the Assyrian Genocide, is a member of The International Association of Genocide Scholars, and collaborates with The Promise Armenian Institute at UCLA on the Assyrian Oral History Project archives.