Fuat Deniz

Fuat Deniz (Syriac: ܦܘܐܕ ܕܢܝܙ) (24 July 1967 – 13 December 2007) was a Swedish sociologist and writer of Assyrian descent. Until his murder in 2007, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Örebro University. Deniz was born as the oldest son into an Assyrian family in the village of Kerburan in Tur Abdin, Turkey. He came to Sweden with his parents as an eight-year old and grew up in Örebro. In his youth he was active in the Assyrian Youth Federation in Sweden, which he also co-founded, and was also a diligent writer for the Swedish National Assyrian Federation's magazine Hujådå. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Uppsala University in 1999. In his doctoral thesis, titled En minoritets...