Background
Hirmis Aboona was born in 1940 in Alqosh to Mushe Aboona and Meryam Asmar.
Hirmis Aboona was born in 1940 in Alqosh to Mushe Aboona and Meryam Asmar.
After finishing his elementary school in his home town his family moved to Baghdad in 1952, there he graduated from the law faculty at the University of Baghdad in 1963.
He moved with his family to London in 1982 where he pursuited higher education at the University of Exeter obtaining his history Doctor of Philosophy for his thesis The Assyrian independent tribes in Tyari and Hakkari and their relationship with the Kurds and Turks. In 1988 Aboona and his family emigrated to Toronto, Canada where he resided until his death due to a heart attack on 19 April 2009.