He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Koya. In 1979, he obtained a bachelor's degree in engineering from Mosul University. He holds a Master's degree in Water Resources from City University of London and a Master's degree in Education Systems from the University of Greenwich. He is currently in the final year of his doctorate at the University of Exeter on Kurdish nationalism.
He joined Komala Ranjdaran Kurdistan in 1976. After graduating from university, he became a Peshmerga and served as a Peshmerga for eleven years. His last job as a Peshmerga was as a member of the central organization of Komala. He participated in the formation of the armed detachments before the 1991 uprising.
For two years, he worked with Human Rights Watch in the United States as an investigator on captured Iraqi documents.
He has written and published three books, listed below:
1. A book in English entitled The Destruction of a People,
2. Anfal - Kurds and the Iraqi State,
3. Degradation of Kirkuk – Degradation Policy in Two Sets of Eighty Documents
He has also contributed to two other English books titled:
1. Genocide in Iraq,
2. The rise of Kurdish national feeling.
He has published dozens of articles on Kurdish cause, Kirkuk, Anfal, strategy, Kurdish nationalistic feelings, organizational work in Kurdish newspapers and magazines such as Hawlati, Rojnama, Aso, Malband.
As an expert in the field of Kurds and Iraq, he has prepared several articles and reports for a number of academic and governmental institutions in Europe and North America and participated in several international conferences on human rights and the Kurdish issue in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
He was one of the witnesses in the Dutch court against Van an Raat for the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds.
He is currently a part-time researcher at the University of Exeter and a lecturer at the College of Engineering in London.
He is a candidate of the Gorran List in Erbil for the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections.[1]