DR. Araz Ramazan Ahmad is currently a lecturer and director of Media office at the University of Raparin. At the same time, he works as a journalist and writer since 2004, as he is a staff member of Kurdistani Nwe (Kurdish Daily Newspaper) and Media adviser at Chawi Kurd Media organization. During (2013-2017) he was Lecturer, Founder and Director of Media and Publications at the University of Raparin, and from 2014 to 2017 he was Director of International Relations office at the University of Raparin. Besides, from 2015 to 2016 he was Founder and Director of Career development center at University of Raparin. He was Coordinator for the Erasmus Mundus Marhaba Program at the University of Raparin, Funded by European Union from 2014 to2017.
Additionally, DR Ahmad worked at different media organizations, newspapers, magazines, TV channels and Radio stations; such as Alam al Tawasol – Lebanese magazine from 2013 to 2014, Editor of Prwsha newspaper. Ranya, Iraq- Kurdistan Region from 2006 to 2007, he was a member of Liberal Newspaper Committee. Sulaymaniyah, Iraq from 2004 to 2007, also he was in charge of Newsroom at “Kurdistani Nwe” a Kurdish Daily Newspaper from 2005 to 2010, founder and director of Zanko Radio at the University of Raparin, from 2014 to 2018 and reporter of Radio Nawa in 2007. Harmoniously, DR Ahmad worked with several civil organizations like Youth organization - IWPR and NPA (Norwegian People's Aid) from 2006 to 2008, and project coordinator at Rebaz foundation in 2007, Kora organization for national issues as a seminar presenter from 2013 to 2015 and Media Youth Organization as a seminar presenter from 2013 to 2015.
DR Ahmad is an active member of Kurdistan journalists syndicate since 2006, member of International Federation of Journalists based in Paris from 2013 and Member of British Association of Journalists since 2012.
$Education:$
PhD Degree in Electronic Media, Salahadin University, Media Department, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan. 2018
PhD Thesis Title: The Role of Electronic Websites in formation Political Knowledge in the Kurdistan Region (Practical and Analytical Study)
Master Degree, Sheffield Hallam University – Sheffield, UK, 2012.
MA Thesis Title: The role of social media in the Arab Spring Uprisings: Egyptian Revolution as a case study.
Bachelor Degree of Media Studies, University of Sulaimani, 2008.
$Books:$
● The Role of Reporters in the covering News. 2010. Non- published
● Local Journalism in Kurdistan, Published, March 2018
● The Role of social media in the Arab Spring Uprisings: Egyptian Revolution as a Case study. 2012. Non-Published.
Academic Research papers:
1. Which governments may control the mass media Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran as a case?
(Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People, Vol 4, No 2 -2015). http://jedep.spiruharet.ro/
2. The use of media in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ of 2010 and 2011 with that of the uprisings in Eastern Europe during the 1950s and 1960, Journal of Koya University, No 37 -2015), http://jhss.koyauniversity.org/index.php/jhss
3. The role of social media in the recent uprising 2014. Presented in Istanbul at international conference on media, communication, design and technology.
(Journal of Economic Development, Environment and People, Vol 4, No 2 -2015). http://jedep.spiruharet.ro/
4. Publishing violence at the Kurdish Media and its Role in strengthening Islamic state of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Kurdish Academics Journal. Third round, part B, No 3, June
2015.
5. Kurdish websites, the level of growth and stages of development (theoretical input)
Journal of Arts, Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences JALHSS, Vol 20, No, 2018, pages: 135-150, publisher: Emirates College for Education Sciences, http://www.jalhss.com/Online-First.html
6. The role of Media in creating political Knowledge, Journal of University of Raparin, Vol, 5, No. 14(2018), http://journal.uor.edu.krd/
7. The role of a reporter in news gathering in Iraq, Journal of University of Raparin, Vol, 1, No, 2, http://journal.uor.edu.krd/
Philosophy of Teaching
Philosophy of Teaching
Araz Ramazan Ahmad
College of Nursing– University of Raparin
araz.ahmad85@uor.edu.krd
+9647701573122
Initially, I teach Academic Debate for first stage students, and I teach in English language, most of activities are doing in English via practical ways which is why my philosophy would be dissimilar and more than anything, I want students to recognize my genuine desire for teaching and interest in them as individuals. I want my classes to be challenging but fair, valuable beyond their time. I am obligated to provide a high quality experience, and strive to be the teacher I want as a student. To accomplish this, I integrate things I have learned in my own classes, student evaluations and a variety of studies and books I have read about teaching on the university level.
I want to challenge students and push them out of their comfort zone. I tell them the first day: if school is not challenging, but there is challenge at the college level and I tell them they have to manage their daily life as they have to think about time management for presenting activities such as seminars and presentations. My rules are simple: Don’t panic, don’t quit, come talk to me. I always find a way to reward effort. Besides, students have to prepare Seminars and presentations, works as small groups for making debates about a warm topic, writing academic reports, and essays and how they use academic sources include how they use citation and referencing according to Harvard Style of referencing thus they need more practical skills because of daily activities during my classes and this practical ways will help them for other stages in their student’s life.
During the last 5 minutes of each class, I review the up-coming topics. I tell them why we are covering this material and how it connects to prior topics and our larger plan moving forward. I provide a general guideline to what they should focus on, and what they can gloss over. I help them organize their thoughts in order to prepare their self for debating skills about warm topics inside and outside the country.
Like the development of any other skill, critical thinking requires practice, whereby repetitious acts form patterns that become easier to perform, eventually becoming natural, almost instinctual
Although it is rewarding to see class conversations quickly gain momentum and capture student interest which we develop more quickly intellectually and socially by listening to multiple perspectives and logics. In short, I teach rhetoric—the art of persuasion because I am here to learn, too, I practice critical thinking informal feedback from students.
At the core of my educational philosophy is the principle, “we learn not for school, but for life.” To awaken students to the persuasive forces at work on their attitudes and behaviors is to awaken them to their responsibilities as citizens, friends, family members, and principled human beings. The experience of working with several hundred students, however, has significantly altered my approach to communicating the value and importance of a heightened rhetorical consciousness.
I have discovered that the most effective route for making my courses valuable and practical to everyday experience is my communication with students throughout the composition process.