Awat is an academic staff member at Erbil Health & Medical Technical College. He holds a BA in Translation from Salahaddin University – Erbil, obtained in 2009. Soon after, he started studying for an MA at Nottingham University in the United Kingdom and obtained the degree in 2014. Awat has been an academic teaching staff member at the distinguished Erbil Polytechnic University for more than nine years and has also been teaching at some private institutions in Erbil for more than five years.