College of Languages

Academic & Scientific Degrees

Degree

Bachelor

Master

PhD

University Name

University of Duhok

University of Duhok

University of Exeter

Degree granting country

Iraq

Iraq

United Kingdom

Date of acquiring degree

1999

2006

2019

Title of Master Thesis

The Rhythmic Structure of Modern Kurdish Poetry

Fine Specialization

Poetry and Rhythm

Title of Ph.D Thesis

National Identity Discourses in Contemporary Bahdinani Kurdish Poetry in Iraq

Fine Specialization

Kurdish literature

Conferences & Work Shops

Date

Type of Participation

Conference – Workshop Names

2019

Researcher

• October 2019: Bridging activism and scholarship: translating Kurdish women’s texts into English, Institute of Modern Languages Research: Translating Women: breaking borders and building bridges in the English-language book industry, (with Dr Clémence Scalbert Yücel and two others), London, UK.

2019

Presenting paper

• July 2019: In and out of Iraq: The Triple Marginalisation of Bahdinani Literature, Transregional Academy, Minor/Small Literature(s): Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere, Berlin, Germany.

2018

Participant

• November 2018: Participation in the reading of Exeter Kurdish Translation Initiative: “Women Voices in Kurdish Poetry” at the Exeter Literary Festival, Exeter, UK.

2018

Participant

• May 2018: Participation in the BISI supported translation workshop – “Literatures from the other Iraq. Laying the foundations for translating Kurdish literatures in the UK”, Exeter, UK.

2017

Presenting paper

• June 2017: Imagining Kurdistan Under the Rule of Ba’ath: Bahdinani Modern Poetry and Discourses of National Identity, The Third International Kurdish Conference of the University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

2014

Presenting paper

• June 2014: Contemporary Kurdish Poetry: The Quest for Kurdish National Identity, A Doctoral Workshop: 'Middle Eastern Literatures: Local and Global Contexts', Organised by the University of Exeter in collaboration with the University of Oxford, Exeter, UK.

2010

Presenting paper

• May 2010: The Rhythmic Structure of Modern Kurdish poetry: Mueyed Teyib and the Dualism of Light and Darkness, The First International Conference on Kurdish Literature - University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.

2009

Presenting paper

• October 2009: Literature and Language Issues in Bahdinan, The Third Cizre Culture and Art Days, Cizre Municipality, Turkey.

2008

Attendance only

• May 2008: Kurdish language Conference, Kurdish Institute of Germany, Berlin, Germany. (attended only)
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