He is a journalist and current mayor of Erbil. He was born in 1977 in Erbil, Kurdistan. His father was martyred when he was 40 days old. His father was a Peshmerga of the Gulan Revolution. He is married in 2000 and has two sons and a daughter named Walat, Aland, and Prusha. He graduated from the Technical Institute, department of Media.[1]