Jamal Ghambar was born in 1962 in the Malkandi neighborhood of the city of Sulaymaniyah, South Kurdistan.
Because of his father's work, his family lived in Imam Qassim neighborhood of Kirkuk for a while and he studied until the second grade of primary school in Kirkuk and then returned to Sulaymaniyah and completed his other stages of education until high school in Sulaymaniyah.
He graduated from the College of Law at Baghdad University in 1984 and in 1989 became a lawyer in Sulaymaniyah. Jamal Ghambar's passion for writing and reading began in the mid-1970s and he became involved in theater through school activities. He later settled into writing poetry. He published his first poem in 1976 in the newspaper Hawkari.
He left Kurdistan in 2000 and stayed in Damascus for two years. He has been living in Australia with his family since 2004 and has been granted Australian citizenship.
He is a member of Amnesty International Australia and the Multiracial Writers Association of South Australia.
In addition to writing poetry, he has translated several literary, intellectual and intellectual researches. He has published three Kurdish poetry books and one Arabic poetry book. He has also translated four books.[1]