Journalist Sirwan Gharib Ahmad was born on #20-02-1976#, in the Shatra district of Nasiriyah province in southern Iraq.
His mother was born in 1943 in Sulaymaniyah, while his father was born in 1941 in Barzanja, Sharbazher, but later moved to Kirkuk for business. They have transferred all their citizenship and official affairs to the city until the day they are transferred to southern Iraq.
In 1976, he secretly returned to Sulaymaniyah with his family and settled there.
In 1995, he started his journalistic career in the Kurdistan Road newspaper. Later, he was employed as a journalist in Azadi Radio and Television in Sulaymaniyah.
In 2000, he started working as a reporter for Hawlati newspaper in Sulaymaniyah.
He was assigned to cover the fighting between the Kurdistan National Union (KNU) and Ansar al-Islam, the fighting between the US and the Ba'ath regime in Diyala provinces, and the fighting between the People's Mujahideen and the Peshmerga in Sharaban and Saadiyah. He then went to Baghdad with US troops and stayed there, obtaining several important Iraqi intelligence documents for his newspaper.
Journalist, Sirwan Gharib. As soon as the US military took control of Baghdad, Abu Tahsin, the man who drew the alarm of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime by drawing his slippers, explained the danger of the situation in Baghdad and suggested him to leave Baghdad because Violent acts can get to Baghdad. He later left Baghdad at the suggestion of Sirwan Gharib and moved to the Kurdistan Region. When his family had a child in Kurdistan, he named him Sirwan.
In the spring of 2003, he worked as a freelancer for Reuters.
- In 2006, he founded the newspaper Awene with his friends and worked as a founding member of this newspaper and a member of the editorial board.
- In 2006, he became the head of the newspaper's office in Erbil. During this period, he had a significant impact on the introduction of Awene newspaper in the city.
- In 2007, he was transferred to the newspaper's headquarters in Sulaymaniyah and appointed as the director of Awene. Until mid-2010, Awene was the most read website in Iraq.
- In 2011, at the request of journalist Tawana Osman, he participated in the establishment of NRT and recruited the channel's staff.
- In 2011, at the request of the writing staff of Awene newspaper, it was proposed to separate the website and re-appoint Sirwan Gharib as editor, but due to disagreements between the writing staff and the then management of Awene and shareholders failed to elect the editor. Because the election of the editor was not only in the hands of the writing staff, but the shareholders were allowed to participate by voting according to the constitution of Awene. From that day on, the differences between the writing staff, shareholders and the management of Awene deepened.
- 2014 at the request of Dr. Barham Salih was the editor-in-chief of KNN until his resignation in 2015. KNN was the first popular website in Iraq, broadcasting its services in Kurdish, Arabic and Kurdish.
- In 2015, he established the website of the station, which now broadcasts its services in Kurdish.
- He is a member of the first congress of the Kurdistan Union of Journalists.
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- In 2003, he participated in all courses and training of IWPR and IKV and later wrote several reports on the conflict areas between Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
In 2004, he participated in the first journalism course in Jordan organized by the Aswat al-Iraq news agency in collaboration with Reuters.
In 2009, he visited Washington at the invitation of the US State Department and participated in the Role of the Media in American Society program[1]