Sargon Donabed

Sargon Donabed (sargondonabed.com) is a writer and academic with a PhD from the University of Toronto in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and a MS in Anthrozoology (Animal Studies) from Canisius College. His work focuses on the notions of re-enchanting, re-wilding, and importance of storytelling. A proponent of panentheism and haecceity, Donabed has created a notion of panenhistoricism as a new historical paradigm in an effort to reimagine divine immanence in the “ordinary,” and its transcendence through mystery – rekindling wonder.

He regularly ‘researches’ cultural heritage and history as well as mythology, folklore, and wisdom literature of the ancient, medieval, and modern world. His contemporary focus consists of indigenous and marginalized communities but also threads of continuity from the ancient to the modern period. He is an expert on the perennial culture and heritage of Assyria/Assyrians and co-founder of the Assyrian Studies Association (assyrianstudiesassociation.org).

Today, Donabed is an associate professor of History and Cultural Studies at Roger Williams University and lives with his human and feline (and all manner of arachnid) family in New England.