Name: Nawzad
Father's name: Ahmad
Year of birth: 1962
Place of birth: Kirkuk
$Biography$
Nawzad Ahmad was born in 1962 in Kirkuk. He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Kirkuk. In 1986-1987 he graduated from the College of Literature, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Salahaddin University in Erbil.
In 1979, he published his first literary article in the Iraqi newspaper Pashkoy. In 1982, he joined the Kurdistan Students Union and later the Kurdistan Ranjdaran Association, which was secretly known as Halgurd. In 1983-1984, he published the magazine Assos in Erbil with a group of students of Salahaddin University. In 1984-1985, he published two issues of Nergiz magazine in Kirkuk with Zahir Roj Bayani and Marf Omar Gul. In 1987-1988, he founded a secret literary organization called Halqay Adibani Communist and a secret magazine with Abdullah Sulaiman Mashal and Jamal Koshsh. They wrote them by hand on carbon and paper and distributed them secretly. His pseudonym was Hoshang. From 1994 to 1996, he published five issues of Sarab magazine in Erbil with a number of writers. From 1992 to 1998 he was a teacher of Arabic language and literature at Azadi Boys High School in Erbil. Between 1995-2010 he worked in several magazines and newspapers. He was also the secretary and editor of Sardam Arabic magazine in 2003-2010 and published 28 issues of the magazine. In 2008, he obtained a master's degree in modern literature and criticism from Sulaymaniyah University, College of Language, Department of Arabic. His master's thesis was entitled The City in Jalil Qaisi's Stories - A Psychosociological Reading in Arabic. In 2008, he became an assistant professor at Sulaymaniyah University, College of Humanities. In 2012, he received his doctorate from Sulaymaniyah University, College of Language, Department of Arabic. On 16-12-2011, at the invitation of Havibun magazine, he participated in the conference Sharafnama, Identity and Sources of Kurdish History at the Free University of Berlin and presented an article entitled (Sharafnama in a Socio-Historical Reading). On 6-1-2017, at the request of Civilization Development Organization (CDO), he wrote a research in both Kurdish and Arabic entitled (Early Marriage Situation in Arbat and Ashti Camps in Sulaymaniyah). The study was published in both Kurdish and Arabic by the organization in a conference attended by eleven Kurdish and Arabic channels. In 2017, he became an assistant professor. He has been a member of the Kurdish Writers Union since 1991, a member of both Kurdistan and World Journalists Unions, and from 2011-2018 he was the president of the Galawezh Foundation. He has published thirty-six books in the fields of literature, translation and intellectual subjects. [1]