Name: Sadiq
Father's name: Bahaaddin
Year of birth: 1918
Place of birth: Amedi
Date and year of death: 16-06-1982
He was born in 1918 in Amedi. He received his primary education in his hometown and secondary and high school education in Mosul. In 1937 he went to Baghdad and graduated from the Higher Teachers' College in 1941. He was appointed a teacher of geography and history in a middle school in Kirkuk, but after three months he was transferred to Halabja, where he stayed for seven years and taught in Sulaymaniyah for three years. After being transferred to Zakho, he was again expelled to the town of Hit in Rumadiya province for his Kurdish national beliefs. After the opening of the General Directorate of Kurdish Education after the July 14, 1958 revolution, he was appointed Deputy Director General for Artistic Affairs. In 1963, 1964 and 1965, he was appointed as a lecturer in Kurdish language and literature in the Kurdish department of the College of Literature of Baghdad University, where many students benefitted from him.
He began writing Kurdish literature in 1935 when he was in the third grade of secondary school in Mosul, He has participated in all activities of cultural institutions and since 1956 he started presenting useful articles to listeners on the Kurdish station of Radio Baghdad. He wrote valuable literary articles in the magazine Hiwa. With the establishment of the Teachers Union of the Iraqi Republic in 1959, he played a prominent role, especially in the second congress, when he was appointed chairman of the Kurdish Education Committee and consolidated good decisions for the benefit of Kurdish culture and knowledge.
He passed away on 16-06-1982 at the age of 64.[1]