Fuat Deniz (Syriac: ܦܘܐܕ ܕܢܝܙ; 24 July 1967 – 13 December 2007) was a Swedish sociologist and writer of Assyrian descent.
Deniz was born as the oldest son into an Assyrian family in the village of Dargeçit in Tur Abdin, Turkey.
In his doctoral thesis, titled En minoritets odyssé ("The Odyssey of a Minority"), he discussed the experiences of Assyrians coming to Sweden in the 1970s.
On 11 December 2007, at approximately 15.30 CET, Deniz was attacked and stabbed in the back of his neck inside Örebro University.
[4] Early on there were some speculations in the media about a possible political motive behind the murder due to Deniz' research on the Assyrian genocide.