Fayaq Abdulkarim Saeed was born in 1960 in Kirkuk. After the arrival of the extremists to power, they were sent to Rumadiya with several other Kurdish families and later expelled again to southern Iraq.
In 1974, they returned to Kurdistan and settled in Kirkuk. He completed his primary schooling in Rumadiya, Nasiriyah, and Kirkuk.
In 1985, he graduated from the Department of Economics at Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad. In 2001 he graduated from Teachers' University in Stockholm. Since then, he has worked as a natural sciences teacher and researcher in the field of educational sciences.
He has constantly written about the situation of education and educational science and has published several researches, articles and books in this field. He has always called for the renewal of the educational system and was one of the active participants of the Educational Congress held in May 2007 in Erbil.
He presented a 360-page study on harassment at home and at school in the hope that it will become a basis for solving the problem of violence in schools in Kurdistan.
He has published 8 books and organized several seminars and workshops for Kurdistan educational cadres on children's cognitive development, didactics and the development of the new education system.
He has constantly published his criticisms and assessments on the Kurdistan education system in Hawlati, Awene and Levin newspapers and has written about educational thinkers.
In 2007, he had a column called Emily in Levin magazine dedicated to education. Since 2009, he has had a special section on education in the weekly newspaper Dastoor called Worldview of Education.
So far, he has the following works:
1) Seven days with Karadakhi. Sardam Publishing House 2002.
2) Division of power. Sardam Publishing House 2003. (Translated from Swedish)
3) Destruction of student values. Ranj Press 2004.
4) Division of powers in Iran. Aras Publishing House 2004. (Translated from Swedish)
5) The first teacher. Sardam Publishing House 2005. (Translated from Persian)
6) Harassment of children at home and at school. Aras Foundation 2007.
7) Schools do not face the Qibla. Aras Foundation 2008.
8) Child suicide. Ranj Printing House 2010.
9) Children's thinking structures and cognitive development. Ghazalnoos publishing house, 2015.
10) Child posttrauma, war, and terrorism. Jamal Irfan Foundation, 2016.[1]