Biography

Welcome to Nazand Begikhani's biography section. Here you’ll find glimpses of her life, work and activities as a poet, as an academic and as an advocate for gender equality and human rights

Dr Nazand Begikhani is a contemporary Kurdish-British poet and academic researcher into Secual and Gender-Based Violence, and an active advocate of human rights. After fifteen years as Senior Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, Centre for Gender and Violence Research, she has been awarded the Vincent Wright Chair 2019/2020 and works as a visiting professor/lecturer at Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA).

"Time flows or runs through Nazand Begikhani’s poems: the stream of her childhood becomes the mighty river Tigris then she finds herself washed up in exile on the Atlantic ocean, or by the banks of the Loire..." according to the late Richard McKane in his forward to her first published work in English.

Begikhani, born at the end of 1960s in Kurdistan by the steps of the Zagros Mountains, survived the Anfal genocide of the Ba'ath regime by Saddam Hussein and live in exile since late 1980s. She received her M.A and Ph.D in comparative literature and sociology from the Sorbonne, Paris, and published her first collection of poems in Paris in 1995. She has published many books and articles, including ten poetry collections mainly in Kurdish but also in English and French. Bells of Speech was her first collection in English, published by Ambit in 2006. Two of her poetry collections have been translated into French, Couleur de Sable (2011) and Le Lendemain d'Hier (2013). She has also translated works of Baudelaire and T. S. Eliot into Kurdish. Her works in English and French have been published by the Poetry Magazine, Ambit magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Exiled Writers' Ink, Action Poétique, etc. Her poetry collections have been translated into many other languages, including Arabic, Persian, Spanish, Chinese, German.

Nazand Begikhani is an active advocate of human rights and is a founding member of the network campaign, Kurdish Women Action against Honour Killing (KWAHK), later changed to Kurdish Women's Rights Watch (KWRW). She has provided expert advice on honour-based violence (HBV) to a number of government bodies, including Sweden, UK and Kurdistan. Between 2007-2009, she sat on the board of the High Commission to Monitor Violence Against Women in the Kurdistan Region and participated, as an expert witness and independent observer, in its seasonal meetings. Since 2010, she has been working with local authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to integrate the concept of gender in the Kurdistan Region's universities and initiated the establishment of gender studies centers throughout the Region. She is currently working as Senior Advisor to the President of Kurdistan on Higher Education and Gender aiming to embed gender across the curriculum. Her work has had considerable influence on action and strategy to address HBV in Kurdistan. She has published academic work in Kurdish, English and French.

She has worked with the Kurdish Institute of Paris, France-Liberté Fondation Danielle Mitterrand the Kurdish Cultural Centre in London and BBC Monitoring. She has been Editor-in-Chief of the Kurdish edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, is the Middle East editor for the Journal of Gender Based Violence and is now Principal Editor of L’Harmattan’s Specialist Imprint (Collection) ‘Peuples, Cultures et Littératures de l’Orient’.

"Nazand Begikhani is not prepared to just float with the current of the times or tradition. In her poems she fights with the Anfal, the genocidal campaign carried out against Kurdish civilians at the end of the 80s: She fights against honour killings and she fights for the perception of the Kurds in the West. These are painful poems - but pain expressed, of women, of the Kurdish peoples, above all needs to be witnessed by poets and their readers."

Richard McKane, 2004.

Awards, Honours & Distinctions

2015 Kurdistan Gender Equality Prize, Iraq.

2012 Prix de Poésie Féminine Simone Landrey, France.

2009 Sayd Ibrahim Prize for Creative Writing, Kurdistan.

2006 Forward Poetry Book, selected as one of the best forty poets of the year, UK.

2000 Emma Humphrey's Memorial Prize, UK for my role in combating honour-based crimes.

1989 French Government Foreign Affairs Scholarship for MA & PhD at the Sorbonne University, Paris.

PUBLICATIONS & RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

In English (A Selection of Books and Articles):

Begikhani, N (2024). ‘Gendered perspectives of Kurdish Diaspora’. In Journal Edutes Kurdes, (the publication is in the form of an interview by Dr L. Dreschlova based on the paper Presented at the International Conference on the Kurdish Diaspora in Europe organised by the Evangelische Akademie in Badin Bol in Germany on 12 March 2022. https://search.app/2AboBpCEgPUbaQKm6

Begikhani, N., (2020). ‘Women’s Narratives from Refugee Camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’, in The Handbook of Displacement. By P.Adey, J.C. Bowstead, K. Brickell, V. Desai, M. Dolton, A. Pinkerton, A. Siddiqi (Editors). Springer Nature, 2020.

Begikhani, N., (2020). Covid-19, Gender and Cyber Violence in the Kurdistan Region. Sciences Po Centre for International Studies, CNRS. COVID-19, Gender and Cyber Violence in the Kurdistan Region | Sciences Po CERI

Begikhani, N., (2020). Gendered Vulnerability in the Middle East: Refugees and Migrants Amid the Global Pendemic. Sciences Po, Programme-PRESAGE. FINAL-webinar-Report-Gendered vulnerability in the ME.pdf (sciencespo.fr)

Begikhani, N., Hamelink, W., Weiss. N., (May 2018). Theorising Women and War in Kurdistan. A feminist and critical perspective. Kurdish Studies Journal. Vol: 6, N0 1, pp 1-10. May 2018.
https://journal.tplondon.com/index.php/ks/article/view/1192

Begikhani N., Hague. G., (2017). 'Experiences of Honour-based Violence and Moving Towards Action in Iraqi Kurdistan'. In The Kurdish Question Revisited. by Gareth Stansfield (Editor),‎ Mohammed Shareef (Editor). Oxford University Press. 2017. http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-kurdish-question-revisited/

Begikhani, N., Faraj, N., (June 2016). Legal treatment of honour crimes: Comparison between Iraqi national and Kurdistan region’s laws. European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance. Vol. 3 Issue 2. Netherlands: Brill. https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/legal-treatment-of-honour-crimes-comparison-between-iraqi-nationa/fingerprints/?sortBy=alphabetically

Begikhani, N., Gill, A. (2015). Honour-Based Violence: Experiences and Counter-Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan and the UK Kurdish Diaspora. Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315587011

Hague, G., Gill, A., and Begikhani, N. (2012). ‘Honour’-based violence and Kurdish communities: Moving towards action and change in Iraqi Kurdistan. Journal of Gender Studies. pp. 383-396. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09589236.2012.708825

Gill, A., Begikhani, N., and Hague, G., (2012). ‘Researching honour-based violence in Kurdish communities’. Women’s Studies International Forum. 35(2).

Begikhani N., (2005). ‘Honour-based violence: The case of Iraqi Kurdistan’. In Honour: Crimes, Paradigms and Violence against Women. Welchman, L. & Hussain, S. (eds.). London: Zed Books.

Begikhani, N., (2005). ‘Reflection on self-translation”. In Other Words: The Journal for Literary Translators. The British Centre for Literary Translation. University of East Anglia. Norwich.

Begikhani, N., (2004). ‘Between other and I: The place of the Kurds in Orientalist literature’. in edited conference papers ‘Between imagination and denial: Kurds as subject and object of political and social processes. Free University of Berlin / ASTA.

Begikhani, N., (2003). ‘A space for the self: Kurdish women writers in Exile’. Journal of Exiled Writers Ink. No.1, London.

Begikhani, N., (1996). ‘Divided Interests in Northern Iraq’. War Report, no. 47, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. London

In French:

Begikhani, N., (Winter 2020). Les combats des femmes kurdes. Manière de Voir, n169. Les combats des femmes kurdes, par Nazand Begikhani (Le Monde diplomatique, février 2020) (monde-diplomatique.fr)

Begikhani, N., (Summer 2011). ‘Crimes d'honneur chez les kurdes: Pratique et stratégie de mobilisation’. La Pensée. No. 367. Paris.

Begikhani, N., (Spring 2005). ‘Les femmes kurdes et l’identité nationale’. Passerelle. Paris.

Begikhani, N., (Janvier - mars1999). ‘Être femme, kurde, et Irakienne’. Monde Arabe: maghreb – mashrek. No.163. Paris.

Begikhani, N., (1997). ‘La femme face a la montée de l’islamisme: Kurdistan d’Irak’. Les Cahiers de l’Orient. N47, troisième trimestre. Paris.

In German:

Begikhani, N., (2000). ‘Das Bild der Kurdischen Frau in der Orientalistischen Literatur des neunzehnten jahrhunderts’, Kurdologie, Band 3, Munster.

Frauen von Cro-Magnon: Femmes de Cro-Magnon (2011), Poetry Collection edited by Bluma Finkelstein.

POETRY COLLECTIONS

My poetry operates from different perspectives to those of government policy or academe, creating a broad and versatile understanding of humanity, which informs and inspires my research & teaching.

Yesterday of Tomorrow, Collection of Poetry, Association of Kurdish Artists in France, Paris, 1995.

Celebrations, Collection of Poetry, Aras, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2004.

Colour of Sand, Collection of Poetry with Dilawar Qaradaghi, Aras, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2005.

Bells of Speech, Ambit Books Publishers, London, 64 pp., 2006. (English)

Bells of Speech, Collected Poems, Ranj Publishers, Sulaimaniya, 2007.(Kurdish)

Love: An inspired Absence, Poetry Collection, Ranj Publishesrs, Sulaimaniya, 2008

Ranin Al-kalam, Translation of collected poems Bells of Speech into Arabic by Qays Qaradaghi and Muhammad Afif al-Hussaini, Dar Al-jamal, Lebanon, 2011

Couleur de Sables, translation of Colour of Sand into French by Shakour Bayz and Bertrand Foly, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2011

Le Lendemain d'Hier. Translated by Nicole Barriere and Claude Ber with the cooperation the author, Les Amandiers, 2013. This collection has been published again by the French Poetry Society in 2022.

A Promenade with John Donne, Ghazalnus Publishers, Tehran, 2017.

Oeuvres Completes of Nazand Begikhani's Poetry, Mang Publishers, Tehran, 2019.

One Day You Will Become of Willow, Nusyar, Denmark, 2023.

MEDIA ARTICLES (A Selection)

« Remembering Mme Danielle Mitterrand » Kurdistan Chronicle, Erbil, 12 November 2024. Transcript of speech given at Centennial remembrance ceremony for Mme Mitterrand, French Consulate, Erbil. https://kurdistanchronicle.com/babat/3578

‘«Intersectionnalité» : De Joe Biden aux étudiants français’. Libération 13 mai 2021. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/intersectionnalite-de-joe-biden-aux-etudiants-francais-ils-votent-pour-20210513_DPUSHP3XDFAXTNGWXQP6U5Q7VE/

'La violence faite aux femmes n’est pas reconnue comme un crime dans beaucoup de pays'. Le Monde, 23 January 2018. http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/01/22/nazand-begikhani-la-violence-faite-aux-femmes-n-est-pas-reconnue-comme-un-crime-dans-beaucoup-de-pays_5244972_3232.html

‘Post-Truth Era’. Rudaw. 11 June 2020. https://www.rudaw.net/sorani/opinion/11062020

‘Kurds Develop Gender Studies To Face Fundamentalism’. 21 May 2015. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-nazand-begikhani/kurds-develop-gender-studies-_b_7344338.html

‘Why the Kurdish Fight for Women’s Rights Is Revolutionary’. Huffington Post, 24 November 2014. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-nazand-begikhani/kurdish-women-rights-fight_b_6205076.html

‘Why ISIS's treatment of Yazidi women must be treated as genocide’. CNN special editorial, 30 October 2014. (https://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/30/opinion/isis-yazidi-women-genocide/index.html).

‘Sexual violence as a war strategy in Iraq’. Your Middle East,15 August 2014. https://www.juancole.com/2014/08/sexual-violence-strategy.html

‘Crime in the name of honour: The case of Fadime Sahindal’. Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet, 13 March 2002. https://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/Kvzqa7/alla-som-tiger-ar-medskyldiga-till-mord

‘Femmes kurdes et l’idéologie d’honneur’. 8 Mars 2000. Le Courrier. Geneva.

Between 2009-2013, she had served as Editor-in-Chief of Le Monde Diplomatique (Kurdish edition); writing and publishing monthly editorial articles around community and the politics of gender in relation to current political and social situations in the Middle East and inside migrant communities in Europe.

RADIO, TV INTERVIEWS & Podcasts (Selection)

Interview (30 January 2010) with PRESAGE conducted by Violette Toye, titled Investigating GBV. https://www.sciencespo.fr/programme-presage/en/news/investigating-gender-based-violence.html

France Culture (26 October 2017) focusing on Kurdish politics in the Middle East.

BBC World Service (October 2017) focusing on gendered politics and Kurdistan referendum.

RCF, France (October 2015) focusing on gender and politics and the fight of Yazidi girls.

RFL, Tours (October 2015) focusing on gender and politics in the Middle East.

CNN Interview (30 October 2014) as a prelude to my special editorial on ISIS's treatment of Yazidi women (https://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/30/opinion/isis-yazidi-women-genocide/index.html).

SBS Radio Australia (6 October 2007) focusing on justice in cases of honour-based violence

Tishk TV (Kurdish TV, Paris) (14 July 2007) on the occasion of the Iraqi KRG formation of an Honour Killing Monitoring Commission in Iraqi Kurdistan focusing on honour-based violence

Nawa Radio Iraq (November 2007) focusing on violence against women, on the occasion of the International Day against Violence

Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 (Christmas Day 200) on the occasion of the publication of my poetry collection Bells of Speech,.

BBC Breakfast TV (October 2003) in relation gender and violence in the UK focusing on the murder case of Heshu Yunis.

Canal Plus (February 2003) focusing on gendered politics and Kurdish diaspora.

Swedish Rapport TV Network (4 February 2002) in relation to honour killing in Europe, focusing on the case of Fadime Sahindal.

Roj TV, (Kurdish TV station, Brussels): from 1998 to 2005 I was interviewed on many occasions regarding Justice and Gender-based Violence in Europe in general and inside Kurdish communities in particular.

Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4 (November 2000) focusing on gender and violence, on the occasion of receiving the Emma Humphrey’s award winning for my work and research on honour crime

France Inter (French Radio Station), focusing on the situation of refugee women in London, Summer 2000.

RESEARCH & ACADEMIC GRANTS (A Selection)

French Ministries of Higher Education and Europe & Foreign Affairs grant for the 4th International Kurdish Studies Congress in Iraq, Erbil, 22-23 April 2025.

French Government grant for IFPO’s conference titled ‘Second Millennium in Iraqi Kurdistan’ (2022)

AHRC (PI) for Yazidi Community Engagement: Enhancing Artisitic Skill of Yazidi Girls IDP Camps/Iraq (2018)

ESRC & Art & AHRC (Co-I) for GBV & Displacement (2016)

KRG Higher Education Ministry Grant for consultancy, to develop a gender curriculum for gender studies centres in IKR universities (2014).

British Council Delphi Grant to establish and develop the first Gender & Violence Studies Centre in the Middle East (2010).

KRG Grant for a pioneering research on HBV inside Kurdish communities in KRI and in the UK (2008).

French Culture Ministry fund for an international conference on violence against women inside Kurdish communities in Europe (2002).

France's Maison de la Poésie grant for the translation of Charles Beaudelaire's selected poetry work into Kurdish (1995)

French Foreign Ministry (in collaboration with Kurdish Institute of Paris), Higher Education Scholarship (1989)

CONFERENCES & SEMINARS (The most recent- Selection)

(Forthcoming) Women’s Creativity and the Imaginaries of Gender: Inheriting the Future

Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 8-10 October 2025 (Keynote speaker, reciting poetry and chair of a session) https://ercif2025.sciencesconf.org/

A Home of One’s Own: The Hidden History of Kurdish Women (Keynote speech presented at the inauguration ceremony of Zainab Khan Institute, Koya, Kurdistan/Iraq) 17 May 2025 https://kurdistanchronicle.com/babat/4095

Institut Kurde de Paris & University of Kurdistan-Hewler, sponsored by France's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs & Ministry of Higher Education and Research: 4th International Kurdish Studies Conference 23-24 April 2025 (Organiser, chairing a keynote session and presenting a paper). https://www.institutkurde.org/en/info/4th-international-conference-of-kurdish-studies-1232552433

Davos Economic Forum, Speaker on ‘The Role of Diaspora in Social and Economic Development: Gendered Perspectives of Kurdish Diaspora.’ 22 January 2025. https://www.linkedin.com/company/kurdish-house-davos/posts/?feedView=all

French Centre for Research on Iraq at France’s Le Sénate (Senate House): Conference on ‘Iraqi Women Between Compliance, Resilience and Emancipation’, 27 November 2024. Speaker at a panel titled ‘Enhancing Legal and Law Enforcement Framework in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region’. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=begikhani+le+senat+

Goethe Institute & Institut Français /Erbil: Roundtable discussion in the role of translation in cultural and community engagement, Iraq, 24 June 2024. https://www.goethe.de/ins/iq/ku/ver.cfm

Institut Kurde de Paris with the collaboration of France’s Le Sénat, Organiser and chair of panel, one-day conference ‘The Kurdish Diaspora: Status Quo and Perspectives’, 27 October 2023. https://www.institutkurde.org/info/the-kurdish-diaspora-historical-background-current-situation-and-prospects-1232552314

Institut Kurde de Paris with collaboration with the French National Assembly, Conference on ‘Prospects on Stability in the Middle East’, focusing on Iraq and Kurdistan, organiser and chair, 12 December 2022;

Key note speaker, Second Millennium in Iraqi Kurdistan: New Results, New Perspectives, colloquium organized by the French Institute of the Near East (IFPO) with the support of the General Directorate of Antiquities in Kurdistan and French Government. Erbil October 2022.

Sciences Po Student Union, seminar on peace and role of communities, Panel speaker with a paper title ‘Peacebuilding from a gender perspective: Definition and Practice’, April 2022

Iraqi Parliament, UNAMI & Women Capacity Building/Iraq, Conference on Peace, Security and Resolution 1325, October 31, 2022. Keynote speaker ‘Gendered Dimension of Peace in Post-War Reconstruction’

Keynote Speaker, at the ‘Kurdish Diaspora in Europe’ conference organised by the Evangelische Akademie, Baden Baden, Germany, 12 March 2022

Speaker, World Economic Forum, Erbil Global Shapers, ‘Silenced Violence: Unfolding Covers on GBV & Domestic Violence’, Zoom Conference, 8 December 2020. https://www.globalshapers.org/hubs/erbil-hub

Speaker, UN Women & High Council of Women’s Affairs, ‘UN Resolution 1325: 20 years after’, Erbil, Kurdistan of Iraq, 10 October 2020. https://hawlati.co/page_detail.php?smart-id=16559

Speaker, University of East of London, ‘Gender-based violence inside refugee and displaced communities’,

11 December 2018.

http://culturalstudiesresearch.org/?p=1762&fbclid=IwAR1JPf4RhCqv1Rvz%20LNy6ktWPGxfLs_XdkY6Yq1%20K4lfMkrKGLi3zsNoJQA

Speaker, Bristol Summer School, Migration Data for Policy, 9- 12 July 2018,

Paper title: 'What is hidden behind data? Contextualising migrant experiences'.

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/wun/events/2018/migration-data-for-policy-summer-school-.html

Speaker, Chatham House, seminar on the Middle East focusing on Kurdistan's Independence Referendum, 26 September 2017.

https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/kurdistan-s-independence-referendum-beginning-further-instability-region

Keynote speaker with Professor Gill Hague, Bristol Festival of Ideas, Waterstone Library, 12 April 2017.

Paper title: Combating Violence Against Women internationally, focusing on the Middle East,

http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/events/gill-hague-and-nazand-begikhani/

Keynote speaker, Women and ISIS war strategy in Iraq, The European Society of Contraception

and Reproductive Health, 14th ESC Congress / 2nd Global ESC Conference, Switzerland, 3-7 May 2016.

Organiser and chair of international conference on Women on the Frontline: Between Victimhood,

Representation, Political Participation and the Fight Against Terrorism’.

22 November 2015, University of Sulaimanya, Gelawej Festival, Iraq.

Keynote Speaker, Middle East Research Institute (MERI): Prevention of Violence against Women seminar, 26 August 2015. Paper title: ‘Honour, Violence and Globalisation in Iraqi Kurdistan Region’

http://www.meri-k.org/multimedia/meri-seminar-prevention-of-violence-against-women/

One-day lecture, American University of Iraq/Sulaimanya (AUIS), in the framework of Equality for

Women Lecture Series, lecture on ‘Gender and Globalisation’, 3 May 2015.

https://auis.edu.krd/tags/nazand-begikhani

Speaker, Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of London (SOAS)

Gender, Fundamentalism and Recent Developments in the Middle East Conference, 30 April 2015.

Paper title: ‘Gender, honour and media: Cyber violence against women’.

https://www.uel.ac.uk/research/centre-for-research-on-migration-refugees-and-belonging/past-events

Speaker, University of Amsterdam: Inverting Globalisation Annual Conference, 9-10 October 2014.

Paper title ‘Gender and Globalisation in the Middle East’

https://issuu.com/amanimaihoub4/docs/inverting_globalisation_conference

Speaker, Groningen University, The Netherlands: Comparative Law and Governance in Europe, 18-19 September 2014. Paper title: ‘Honour-based violence between national, regional and informal laws’.

Scientific committee member of an international conference at Sciences PO/Paris on Le Kurdistan d’Irak et la question kurde au Moyen-Orient. Nouvelles dynamiques, nouveaux enjeux. I initiated this collaboration work and, in addition to my role as an organizing member, I presented a paper and concluded the conference, 22 November 2013. The conference was a collaboration between CERI, CERIC, KRG and the University of Kurdistan. http://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/content/dossiersduceri/ce-que-le-kurdistan-d-irak-fait-au-grand-kurdistan-enjeux-et-modalites-de-la-constitution-d-

SELECTED OLDER CONFERENCES:

Co-organiser with the Metropolitan Police of the International Conference on Honour Killing,

London, 21 March 2005.

Speaker, Honour-based violence in Europe, paper presented at the Swedish government ‘Expert meeting on Violence in the Name of Honour’, organized by the Swedish Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Integration, 4-5 November 2003. I was invited in my capacity as consultant for two year to Ms Mona Salin, Swedish Minister of Democracy and Integration.

Speaker, Gender, politics and the new Iraq, paper presented at the ‘EU Policy Towards Iraq’, organized by the Bertelsmann Foundation, Munich University, in cooperation with the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) and the Aspen Institute Italy and the Robert-Schuman-Center at the European University Institute in Florence, Munich, March 18-19 2004.

Co-organiser and speaker, ‘Refugees, asylum seekers and the mass media’

Conference organised by the PressWise Trust, London, December 2000.

Speaker, UN New York, World March of Women, addressed Women in conflict zone: the

case of Kurdish women, New York UN Head Quarters. October 2000.

Main organiser, No honour in murder: launch of Kurdish Women Action against Honour Killings,

Kurdish Women’s Organisation/ Kurdish Cultural Centre, London, March 2000

(see http://www.kwahk.org/articles.asp?id=26).

Workshop facilitator and speaker, Domestic violence and refugee women in the UK, workshop on behalf of

London Refugee Council and Refugee Action,

Conway Hall, 8th of March 1999 (see www.kurdishmedia.com/kwahk ).

Keynote speaker, Gender and national identity, paper presented at MESA Annual Conference (Middle Eastern Studies Association), Florida, USA, October 2001.

Speaker addressing gender-based violence, UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995.

For the first time honour-based violence was addressed, in the presence of Hilary Clinton.

Poetry Works

Yesterday of Tomorrow, Collection of Poetry, Association of Kurdish Artists in France, Paris, 1995.
Celebrations, Collection of Poetry, Aras, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2004.
Colour of Sand, Collection of Poetry with Dilawar Qaradaghi, Aras, Iraqi Kurdistan, 2005.
Bells of Speech, Ambit Books Publishers, London, 64 pp., 2006. (English) ISBN 0-900055-11-1
Bells of Speech, Collected Poems, Ranj Publishers, Sulaimaniya, 2007.(Kurdish)
Love: An inspired Absence, Poetry Collection, Ranj Publishesrs, Sulaimaniya, 2008
Ranin Al-kalam, Translation of collected poems Bells of Speech into Arabic by Qays Qaradaghi and Muhammad Afif al-Hussaini, Dar Al-jamal, Lebanon, 2011
Couleur de Sables, translation of Colour of Sand into French by Shakour Bayz and Bertrand Foly, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2011
Le Lendemain d'Hier, Translated by Nicole Barriere and Claude Ber with the cooperation the author, Les Amandiers, 2013.