His full name is Jabar Qadir Ghafoor Zandi, and he was born in 1951 in Kirkuk, South Kurdistan.
He completed his primary, secondary and high school education in the same city.
He then moved to Baghdad and was admitted to the Department of History, College of Education, Baghdad University. In 1972, he obtained a bachelor's degree in history.
After he started working as a teacher, he taught history in several high schools in Kirkuk. He was then sent to Moscow by the Kurdish Information Society and admitted to the Department of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
In 1977, he received his PhD under the title Kurdish National Movement in Turkey - Between World Wars I and II 1918-1939. It is also worth mentioning, Ph.D. (M.S. Lazarev - 1930-2010) supervised his PhD thesis.
After returning to Iraq, he worked as a lecturer at both Sulaymaniyah University and Salahaddin University in Erbil between 1978-1981.
He was transferred to Mosul University, where he continued until the year 1990.
After the 1991 uprising, he moved to Turkey and then to the Netherlands.
From 1992 to 1993, he taught at the Middle East Institute, Department of Arabic, University of Amsterdam.
In 2007, he returned to Kurdistan and was appointed Dean of the College of Humanities at Koya University.
In the same year, he was elected as an active member of the Kurdish Academy and later became the editor-in-chief of the journal.
It is worth mentioning, Ph.D. Jabar Qadir is fluent in Kurdish, Arabic, English, Turkish, Russian, and Dutch.
He has published more than 300 articles and research in both Kurdish and Arabic.
He has also written prefaces to several books that have given them great scientific value.
He has also supervised several master's and doctoral theses. P.D. Kamal Mazhar Ahmad, in an interview, says: Dr. Jabar Qadir was one of the brightest and most talented students.[1]