He was born in Maʿsarteh and joined the Taw Mim Simkath orphanage in Adana. He taught Syriac, French, and Arabic at the same institution, after it moved to Beirut . He graduated from the American University of Beirut, and then established in Tal Tamar, near al-Ḥasake, a school for the Assyrians. He became the principal of the Syr. Orth. schools of Qamishli, and a manager of the Electrical Company of Qamishli after its nationalization. He returned to Beirut where he taught at the American University. He died in a car accident in 1981.
He published with Yuḥanon Qashisho a set of Syriac readers (Qamishli, 1951). He composed more than 100 poems, mostly unpublished. He translated a novel/play from French into Syriac (Munūfar Barṣūm gives the titled transcribed in Arabic as janfīfāf, i.e., Geneviève) (ms).