Full name: Azad Taha Ali
He was born in 1978 in Suerala village of Chawarta township of Sulaymaniyah province in South Kurdistan.
In 1999, he graduated from the Teachers' Headquarters Institute, Department of English. In 1999, while training as a teacher, he composed three children's poems for children's songs, but no one helped to record them for television.
In the same year, he directed the play Kaway Asngar, which was performed at Shahid Kamal Kurdi School during Newroz. He has prepared and directed several other children's plays. Since 2008, he has been translating stories and scientific articles for children. He has translated more than 300 books of stories and scientific articles for children into Kurdish He published them in the magazines (Mndalani Sardam, Butterflies, Young Children, Flowers, Jolane). In 2013, he had the idea of publishing 100 children's books.
At the end of the same year, the Smora Center for Children's Culture published his first book called Food. Unfortunately, due to the financial crisis, he was unable to publish his other books and 69 books have been lost in three publishing houses.
Since issue (63) of Mandali Sardam magazine, there has been a special page called (My own hands) he has been writing in this corner, which is a continuous corner of the magazine and in that corner of the magazine he teaches children handicrafts.
Azad Taha translates articles from English into Kurdish.
On the occasion of World Children's Day and the issue (100) of Gulakan (Flowers) magazine in 2015, he was awarded an honorary prize by Gulakan magazine (Flowers).
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He has translated more than 300 children's books.
He has a published work entitled Food.
Azad Taha is currently an English teacher at Sharo Primary School in #Sulaymaniyah# .[1]