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Dr. Estiphan Panoussi's Backgroud
Dr. Estiphan Panoussi's Date of birth: September 11, 1935. Place of birth: Sanandadj,
Iran
Nationality: Iranian and Swedish.
Dependents: Wife and two sons, Mike and Tony.
Education and academic grades, positions, and status: School and Highschool in Iran
and Iraq
1957 B.A., Philosophy, Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana de Propaganda Fide,
Rome, Italy.
1958 M.A., Philosophy, Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana de Propaganda Fide,
Rome, Italy.
1961 Study of Oriental Philology and History and Ph.D. (1st Degree),
Philosophy, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
1961-64 Study of Iranian Philology and Semitic Languages, University of
Tübingen, Germany
1964-66 Dissertation research in Philosophy, while also teaching in the
Universities of Giessen and Marburg.
1967 Ph.D. (2nd Degree), Philosophy, Louvain, Belgium.
1967-73 Assistent Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Orient-Institut,
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
1973-78 and 81-89 Assoc. Professor (d_nešy_r), University of Teheran, Iran.
1992-2000 Senior Lecturer, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden
1994 Docent, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden.
2000 Professor, Göteborgs universitet, Sweden.
2000 Retired, Professor emeritus, Götebors universitet, Sweden.
2000-2002 Visiting Scholar at Harvard University with Neo-Aramaic
fieldwork research in/around L.A.
2002 Obtained the "Green Card" through son, Howfarr Panoussi, U.S.A. citizen
by birth.
2002- ongoing Adjunct Instructor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Antelope
Valley College, Lancaster.
Academic experience: 1964-66 Instructor (Lektor), Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen
Nordafrikas, Justus Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany.
Courses taught: Classical Arabic, Persian, New Aramaic dialects, Old Syriac, The Ninth
Book of Avicenna's aš-Šif_', compared with the Elementa Theologica of Proclus and
with the Liber de causis, The Isagoge of Porphyry in the Syriac and Arabic versions
Avicenna's D_nešn_mä-ye `Al_'_ (Persian philosophical readings).1964-66 (while also
teaching in Giessen): Instructor (Lektor), Seminar für Semitistik, Philipps Universität
Marburg, Germany. Courses taught: The same as in Giessen, in addition to: Eastern and
Western philosophical confrontation, Aristotle's Categories in their Syriac and Arabic
versions.1967-73 Assistent Professor, FUB, Berlin. Courses taught: Old Syriac, New

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Aramaic dialects, Conversation in Classical Arabic, Aristotle's Categories in their Syriac
and Arabic versions, Aristotle's Rhetoric in the Arabic version, Avicenna's Logic,
according to the Kit_b aš-Šif_' (in collaboration with Professor Rudolf Macuch)
Problems of medieval philosophy in light of Jewish-Islamic sources (in collaboration
with Professor Taubes), Readings from the Neusyrische Chrestomathie (compiled by
Rudolf Macuch and Estiphan Panoussi), 1972-78 Associate Professor (D_nešy_r),
University of Teheran, Iran. Courses taught: Biblical and Imperial Aramaic, Old Syriac,
New Aramaic dialects, Middle Persian Ideographics and Ideograms, Persian from point
of view of Indo-European Studies, Arabic from point of view of Semitic Studies, History
of Persian culture, Introduction into the Classical Latin language for comparative
Studies with Persian. 1978-81 Visiting Associate Professor, Middle East Center, The
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. Courses taught: Introduction to the Semitic
languages, Old Aramaic, Old Syriac, New Aramaic dialects, Directed readings in
Biblical Aramaic, Directed reading in Syriac, Persian language and literature. 1981-89
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Old Languages, and since 1984
Chairman of the Italian Department, University of Teheran, Iran. Courses taught:
Biblical Aramaic, Middle Persian Ideographics and Ideograms, Introduction to the
Classical Latin language, Italian and Persian compared grammar. 1989-1992 Visiting
Professor, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, West Germany. Computer Research
projects: 1: The first "Latin-Persian Dictionary", actual stand: over 10000 entries; 2: A
Neo-Aramaic Senaya-Glossary, actual stand: over 400 pages. Courses taught: Arabic,
Persian, Biblical Aramaic, Seminar: East-West philosophy: "Themendiskussion an Hand
von Zitaten".
1992-2000 Senior Lecturer (Docent, 1994; Prof. 2000), Göteborgs Universitet.
Institutionen för orientaliska språk.
Research: Continuation of previous projects; Courses taught: Different subjects in
levels B, C and D).
1995 the Swedish HSFR (Humanistisk-Samhällsvetenskapliga Forskningsrådet /
Council for Research in the Humanities), has approved a three-year-project entitled
"The Christian Senaya Dialect of Neo-Aramaic: Texts, Grammar and Dictionary" (In
collaboration with Prof. Dr. Wolfhart Heinrichs, Harvard University, Department of
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations).
1997-1998 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations, (NELC).
1998-1999 (ca. 2 months) Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles,
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Los Angeles. 2000-2002 Unpaid
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations (NELC). Achieving field-work research on Neo-Aramaic dialects in and
around L.A. Publications (in French, German and English): Neusyrische
Chrestomathie [New Syriac Chrestomathy], Wiesbaden 1974, xxix and 244 pages (in
collaboration with Professor Rudolf Macuch); "La notion de participation dans la
philosophie d'Avicenne: Etudes historiques et doctrinales", Dissertation presentée pour

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l'obtention du grade du docteur en Philosophie. Louvain 1967, 327 pages; "La
théosophie iranienne source d'Avicenne?", in Revue Philosophique de Louvian,
1968(66) pp. 239-266; "L'origine de la notion de participation chez Zoroastre et chez
Platon", in Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte und deren Nachleben, Festschrift für Franz
Altheim zum 6.10.1969, Berlin 1969, pp. 91-114; "Some Annotations relating to the
Arabic Version of Aristotle's Rhetoric(=AVAR)", in Studia semitica necnon iranica,
Rudolpho Macuch septuagenario ab amicis et discipulis dedicata, ediderunt Maria
Macuch, Christa Müller-Kessler et Bert G. Fragner, Wiesbaden 1989, pp. 195-200; "On
the Senaya dialect", in Studies in Neo-Aramaic, edited by Wolfhart Heinrichs, (Harvard
Semitic Studies), Atlanta 1990, pp. 107-129; "Ein vorläufiges Verbglossar zum
aussterbenden neuaramäischen Senaya-dialekt", in Rivista degli Studi Orientali,
Volume LXV, Fasc. 3-4 (1991), Roma 1992, pp. 165-183; "The Arabic Version of
Aristotle's Rhetoric (AVAR) and its Edition by `Abdurra_m_n Badaw_", in Semitica,
Serta philologica Constantino Tsereteli dicata, curaverunt Riccardo Contini, Fabrizio A.
Pennacchietti [e] Mauro Tosco, Torino 1993, pp. 201-211; "Abriss der Geschichte der
Persischen Kirche", in Festschrift Ewald Wagner zum 65. Geburtstag, hrsg. v. Wolfhart
Heinrichs und Gregor Schoeler, Bd 1. Semitische Studien. Unter Besonderer
Berücksichtigung der Südsemitistik, Beirut 1994, pp. 199-220; "The Unique Arabic
Manuscript of Aristotle's Ars Rhetorica and its two Editions published to date by
_Abdurra_m_n Badaw_ and by M[alcolm] C. Lyons" in Consciousness and Reality,
Studies in Memory of Toshihiko Izutsu, edd. Sayyid Jal_l al-D_n _shtiy_n_ et al., Tokyo
1998, 233-250; "D_rab_ni Dialect Notes", Studia Iranica, Mesopotamica et Anatolica
Institut of Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Praha 1998, 179-182; " La Participation dans
l'Oeuvre Logique d'Avicenne" in Mohaghegh Nama, supervised ba B. Khorramsh_h_
[and] J. Jah_nbakhsh, Tehran 2001, pp. 142-175 "Greek-Arabic glossary based upon the
Aristotelian Ars Rhetorica", in manuscript form. Collaboration with other scholars:
With Rudolf Kassel, Der Text der Aristotelischen Rhetorik, 1971, pp. 88-90 mentioning
my Arabic-German translations as a contribution to his work. With Rudolf Macuch:
Neusyrische Chrestomathie [New Syriac Chrestomathy], Wiesbaden 1974, xxix and 244
pages. With M. C. Lyons, Ars Rhetorica, The Arabic Version, A New Edition, with
Commentary and Glossary, Volume I, Cambridge 1982, s. the sigla-page mentioning
my contribution for his work. And many Papers in Congresses and Universities.
Publications (in Farsi): More than 20 articles and three monographies, e.g. "Falsafa-ye
šarq_-ye Ebn-e S_n_", [The Oriental Philosophy of Avicenna], in Mahdaw_-n_meh,
Teheran 1999, 293-305. The most recent book: Ger_yešh_-ye _elm_ wa-farhang_ dar _r_n,
az hax_maneš_ t_ p_y_n-e _afaw_yeh, Teheran 2004.
Honors: Inclusion a. o. in: Men of Achivement, [American Biographical Institute],
Cambridge 19872
. Who's Who of Intellectuals, [American Biographical Institute],
19877
. Five Thousand Personalities of the World, Appendix, [American Biographical
Institute], Chelsea 19902
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Cultural and Linguistic Backgroud
Of
Dr. Estiphan Panoussi
Adjunct Instructor at AVC
And
The Proud Father of Mike and Tony
The owners of the VIP-CAR WASH (661-945-5000 / 661-480-3646).)1
1) Ancient Greek (only for research purposes. Having studied Greek for
Philosophy and Comparative linguistics).
2) Latin (Having studied Philosophy in Latin language for three years and
spoken it as it was habitual in Vatican' University Pontificia Universitas De Propaganda
Fide, and having taught it at the University of Tehran/ Iran, for more than 15 years).
3) Italian (Having studied it in Italy for four years and taught it as head of the
Italian Department at the University of Tehran, for five yars).
4) French (Having lived in Belgium for four years and passed two Ph.D.s in
philosophy at the Catholique University of Louvain, French section, Belgium).
5) German (Having studied in Tübingen for three years, and taught philosophy
and oriental languages at the Universities Giessen, Marburg, Berlin, Eichstätt, all in
Germany, for more than 12 years).
6) Swedish (Having taught for 8 years all levels of Arabic and related subjects
form 1992-2000 at the University of Gothenburg / Sweden from 1992 to 2000).
7) English (Having studied it and learned it throughout his academic career, and
published in it, as well as used it in his teaching at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
for 3 years, and at AVC since 2002).
8) Biblical Aramaic (Having studied it in Germany and taught it at several
universities, especially at the University of Tehran / Iran, ca. 15 years).
9) Biblical Hebrew (Only for research purposes, having studied it in Germany as
one of the Semitic languages).
10) Middle Aramaic. East and West Syriac. (Having learned it in Iraq since High
School, for three years, and studied it later also academically at the universities of
Louvain, Belgium, and Tuebingen, Germany, and finally taught it at universities of
Giessen, Marburg, Berlin, and Eichstaett, all in Germany, at the University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, and at the university of Tehran, Iran, more than 12 years).
11) New Aramaic dialects (Chaldean and Assyrian). Having spoken them, made
research on them and taught them in Germany, Tehran and Gothenburg (Koine /
Urme_n_ya, Senaya (as the mother tongue), some of Chaldaean dialects, Christian
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dialects in Irak, and Leš_n_ h_lawl_, being the Jewish Neo-Aramaic of Sena).
12) Middle Persian (Only for research purposes. Having studied it for
Comparative linguistics).
13) Farsi (/Modern Persian) (Having taught it at some universities in Germany,
Salt Lake City and published in it many books and articles).
14) Kurdish (Having spoken it as a child).
15) Arabic (Having learned it for three years in Irak and studied it linguistically
in the Western Universities, in Belgium and Germany, and taught it at the universities
of Giessen, Marburg, Berlin, Eichstätt (all in Germany), Tehran/Iran, and finally, as full
professor for Arabic in levels A, B, C, and D, in Gothenburg/Swedem 1992-2000).
16) In 2007 started to autodidactically learn Spanish (the 2nd language in
Southern California)2
A list of some of my publications in different languages, synoptically exposed .
Synoptical
Exposition of
a Part of
Publications
Made in
French German English Farsi
Wiesbaden
1974
[New Syriac Chrestomathy]
Neusyrische Chrestomathie,
Wiesbaden 1974, xxix and 244
pages (in collaboration with
Professor Rudolf Macuch).
Wiesbaden 1974, xxix and 244
pages (in collaboration with
Professor Rudolf Macuch).
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Tehran 1974 ["Erroneous Publication of the
Arabic Manuscript of
Aristotle's Ars Rhetoric by
Àbdulra_m_n Badaw_"]
"Dar b_rä-ye n_ras'_h_-ye __p-e
dastnew_s-e xe__bä-ye Aras__
be-àrab_ az _araf-e
Àbdolra_m_n-e Badaw_", in
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For being tutored or taught by Dr. Estiphan Panoussi in some of the above listed languages,
write to <epanoussi@avc.edu>

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Revue de la Faculté des
Lettres et Sciences Humaines
de l'Université de Tehéran, N0
2 & 3, 1975, pp. 145-180
[This article was honored
with a prize awarded by the
queen for the best scientific
article in the Human
Sciences of the University of
Teheran in 1975.]
Tehran 1977 ["Dissimilation of /dd/ into
/nd/ in Other Languages and
in Persian"]
"Tabd_l-e d_ hamxw
_n-e /dd/
be-/nd/ dar zab_nh_-ye d_gar
wa-dar zab_n-e f_rs_", in Revue
de la Faculté des Lettres et
Sciences Humaines de
l'Université de Tehéran, No
4,
Teheran 1977, pp. 42-47.
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Tehran 1978 [The Influence of the Persian
Culture and World View
upon Plato]
Ta'__r-e farhang
wa-_ah_nb_n_-ye _r_n_ bar
Afl___n, (The Influence of the
Persian Culture and World
View upon Plato), Theran
1978, viii and 139 pages.
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Tehran 1978 ["The Assyrians in Iran"]
"As_r_y_n-e _r_n", in
Encyclopedia of Iran and
Islam, edited by E_s_n
Y_rš__er, Teheran 1978, pp.
271-277.
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Synoptical
Exposition of
a Part of
Publications
Made in
French German English Farsi
Wiesbaden
1989
"Some Annotations relating
to the Arabic Version of
Aristotle's Rhetoric(=AVAR)",
in Studia semitica necnon
iranica, Rudolpho Macuch
septuagenario ab amicis et
discipulis dedicata, ediderunt
Maria Macuch, Christa
Müller-Kessler et Bert G.
Fragner, Wiesbaden 1989, pp.
195-200.
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Tehran 1989 ["Oriental Influences in the
Greek Philosophy"]
"Ta`__r_t-e šarq_ dar falsafä-ye
y_n_n_, in Farhang, No
4-5,
Tehran 1989, pp. 345-362.
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Atlanta 1990 "On the Senaya dialect", in
Studies in Neo-Aramaic,
edited by Wolfhart Heinrichs,
(Harvard Semitic Studies),
Atlanta 1990, pp. 107-129.
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Roma 1992 ["A Temporary Verb Glossary
from the Moribund
Neo-Aramaic Dialect Senaya"
]
"Ein vorläufiges Verbglossar
zum aussterbenden
neuaramäischen
Senaya-dialekt", in
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Rivista degli Studi Orientali,
Volume LXV, Fasc. 3-4
(1991), Roma
1992, pp. 165-183.
Torino 1993 "The Arabic Version of
Aristotle's Rhetoric (AVAR)
and its Edition by
`Abdurra_m_n Badaw_," in
Semitica, Serta philologica
Constantino Tsereteli dicata,
curaverunt Riccardo Contini,
Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti [e]
Mauro Tosco, Torino 1993,
pp. 201-211.
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Beirut 1994 ["An Outline of the History of
the Persian Church"]
"Abriss der Geschichte der
Persischen Kirche", in
Festschrift Ewald Wagner
zum 65. Geburtstag, hrsg. v.
Wolfhart Heinrichs und
Gregor Schoeler, Bd 1.
Semitische Studien. Unter
Besonderer Berücksichtigung
der Südsemitistik, Beirut
1994, pp. 199-220.
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Tokyo 1998 "The Unique Arabic
Manuscript of Aristotle's Ars
Rhetorica and its two Editions
published to date by
_Abdurra_m_n Badaw_ and by
M[alcolm] C. Lyons" in
Consciousness and Reality,
Studies in Memory of
Toshihiko Izutsu,edd. Sayyid
Jal_l al-D_n _shtiy_n_ et al.,
Tokyo 1998, 233-250.
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Praha 1998 "D_rab_ni Dialect Notes", +

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in Studia Iranica,
Mesopotamica et Anatolica
Institut of Ancient Near
Eastern Studies, Praha 1998,
179-182.
Tehran 1999 ["The Oriental Philosophy of
Avicenna"]
"Falsafa-ye šarq_-ye Ebn-e
S_n_", in Mahdaw_-n_meh,
Teheran 1999, 293-305.
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Tehran 2001 ["The Participation in the
Logic of Avicenna"]
"La Participation dans
l'Oeuvre Logique d'Avicenne"
in Mohaghegh Nama,
supervised ba B.
Khorramsh_h_ [and] J.
Jah_nbakhsh, Tehran 2001,
pp. 142-175
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Tehran 2002 [The Influence of the Persian
Culture and World View
upon Plato. Second Edition]
Ta'__r-e farhang
wa-_ah_nb_n_-ye _r_n_ bar
Afl___n, Theran 20022
, vii and
139 pages.
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Tehran 2004 [Scientific and Cultural
Trends in Iran, From
Achaemenids until the End
of Safavids]
Ger_yešh_-ye _elm_
wa-farhang_ dar _r_n, az
hax_maneš_ t_ p_y_n-e
_afaw_yeh, Teheran 2004.
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