David S. Kazzaz, M.D.
Dr.
David Kazzaz was born in Baghdad ,
Iraq and attended medical school at
the American University in Beirut . He
has completed his post doctoral
training at Hadassah Hospital in
Jerusalem Israel and subsequently did
a residency in Psychiatry at the
University of Colorado Medical Center
in Denver , Colorado . After studying
in Denver , Dr. Kazzaz was asked by
the Ministry of Health in Israel to
develop a pilot program
on
community mental health centers which
was used as a model for subsequent
programs.
In 1962,
Dr. Kazzaz returned to Denver where he
practiced psychiatry for twenty seven
years. He retired in 1989 and founded
Project Pride, a program focusing on
anti-Semitism and racial hatred. In
1995 Dr. Kazzaz founded the
Hispano-Crypto-Jewish Resource Center
at the University of Denver .
Since
2000
Dr. Kazzaz is a Research
Associate of The Institute for the
Study of Israel in the Middle East (ISIME).
He is engaged in the study and
analysis of events in Iraq and other
countries in the Middle East . He is a
regular lecturer in classes at the
Graduate School of International
Studies at the University of Denver as
well as a frequent lecturer on Middle
East topics in the general community.
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Dr.
Kazzaz is the author of “Mother of the
Pound: Memoirs on the Life and History
of the Iraqi Jews.” The book is
available for purchase at
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