Jarjis Fathullah was born in the year 1922 in Mosul to an Assyrian Christian family.
In 1943 he received his law degree.
Like most young people of that time, he became a leftist and Marxist, and later became a member of the Communist Party and the People's Party. He wrote many articles in the newspapers and magazines of that time, and became a good historian. In 1958, he resigned from the Communist Party and became a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
In 1968, he was arrested by the Ba'ath Party and was sentenced to death by the party. However, the order was not enforced and so he spent five years in prison, was granted a general amnesty and released in 1968.
In the same years, he translated two books on the Kurds into Arabic, Mehd al-Bushriya and Rahla al-Rajol al-Shuja'an. As a pastime activity, he also wrote the book about the Kurds: A Visit to the Recent Past.
In the year 1970, he attended the Eighth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and was one of the people who drafted the law on the right to self-determination and autonomy that was submitted to the Ba'athist government.
After the fall of the revolution, Jarjis Fathullah, like most of the members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, he moved to Iran and later to Sweden as a refugee.
In the year 2000, he returned to Kurdistan for the first time since he left for Iran.
He died of heart disease on 23-07-2006 in Kurdistan and was buried in Aynkawa, Erbil. [1]