• B.A. in Kurdish Language & Literature- Salahaddin University- 2003

• M.A. in Kurdish Literature- Koya University- 2009

• PhD in Kurdish Studies at Centre for Kurdish Studies-University of Exeter-UK-2023

Professional Memberships:

• Exeter Alumni Community
• Kurdish Studies Network (KSN)
• Kurdistan Journalists Syndicate (KJS)
• International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
• International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), Iraq Network

Background:

I have 10 years’ experience in civil society and journalism fields. I had managed several strategic and long-term projects of youth, women and culture development in the frame of a civil society organization in Iraqi Kurdistan. I also had a considered experience in journalism field especially in Khwendni Liberal (Liberal Education) newspaper that I participated as member of Editor Staff, Editor in Chief Assistant and Concessionaire in publishing (104) issues of it. In 2007, I have been awarded by the Ministry of Sport and Youth as youth of the year in the activity towards reinforcing civil society.

Academic Career:

Teaching: Lecturing Kurdology, Human Rights, Genocide, and Gender Equality, Research Methods, English Skills, and Comparative Grammar between English and Kurdish Languages, 2009 to present at EPU.

Administrative Positions Held: Quality Assurance Coordinator 2009-2011, and 2018 to present at EPU.

Consultancy:

Researcher and assistant consultant in matters related to Iraq and Kurdistan Region of Iraq at Middle East Expert from October 2018 to present.

Kurdish Sorani consultant and Social Media Evaluator for Appen Company. 2015-2016

Evaluation and Proof Reading: Editing and supervising a number of  books such as:

·       Kurdish Criticism History by: Kaml Hassan Albaseer

·       University from Model to Reality by: Rebwar Siwayli.

       Memory of a student in Kurdistan by: Kaml Hassan Albaseer 

Academic interest:

Field of Sepecilization: Kurdish Studies

Research Interests: Kurdish Literature, Kurdish Modern Poetry, Kurdish literary rhetoric, comparison literature, Classical Literature. 

Publications:

I have contributed as a joint editor of the following publication:

• Forced Marriage: life and a critical destiny, forced marriage traditions, lack of public awareness, and authority negligence, 2010
• Gender Assessment Report on Justice Council Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research, Justice Council, and Ministry of Health, 2010
• Combating Forced Marriage, 2009
• Non participation of Youth in the Kurdistan political process, 2007
• Media Sustainability Index Iraq, IREX Europe, 2006

Articles in Kurdish magazines Raman and Aynda:

1.     Concept of life and love in a poem " Ay lew rojgare xoşane" of Baxtyiar Ali

2.     A research of literary equilibrating-comparison in the name of the "symbol of water" in the three poems of (Suhrab Supehry, Jamal Ghambar, Abdulmutalib Abdullah).

3.     Romanticism in the "Plague" poem of (Mardin Ibrahim).

4.     Succinctness and verbosity in Kurdish literature.

5.     Exaggeration in Kurdish literature

Conference:

"Myths and Symbols of Kurdish Modern Poetry

Abdulla Goran as Example" BRISMES Annual Conference- London 24 June 2015