He was born in 1939 in Sulaymaniyah. He translated the manifesto of the Communist Party into Kurdish in 1967, and was published in 1996 and 2001.
He completed his primary and secondary school and teachers' college in Sulaymaniyah. He taught for three years from 1959-1962. He graduated from the Institute of Social Sciences in Bucharest, Romania in 1964, and from the Institute of Social Sciences in Moscow in 1976.
He was elected as a member of the executive committee of the Kurdish Writers Union at its first, second and third congresses and served as its executive secretary from 1970-1974. He was the representative of the Kurdish Writers Union in the 5th Congress of Asian and African Writers, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1975, with Hussein Arif.
He has worked in journalism for more than 25 years. He took an active part in the September Revolution and the glorious March 1991 uprising.
He began writing in 1956. He has published literary, social and political works and translations in Kurdish newspapers and magazines.
He was the deputy editor of the weekly newspaper New Thought, a member of the editorial board of several progressive magazines and newspapers, the writing secretary of the magazine Road to Peace and Socialism. Member of Kurdistan Union of Journalists.
For more than fifty years, he participated in the secret and open struggle of the Kurdistan people's liberation movement against dictatorial regimes and participated in both the September Revolution and the New Kurdistan People's Revolution.
He is a member of the Kurdistan Veterans Association.
Hehas worked in the student and youth movement and is a tireless fighter for women's rights and equality with men. He fights for the rights of refugees and Kurdish diaspora abroad and for granting asylum and not forcibly returning refugees and immigrants. He has written and translated more than twenty books and booklets, and published hundreds of articles and literary, cultural and political works in Kurdish and Arabic newspapers, magazines and websites.[1]