Abdulla Pashew, or Ebdulla Peşêw, is a well-known Kurdish

Kurdish people

The Kurdish people, or Kurds , are an Iranian people native to the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey...

 poet. He was born in 1946 in Hewlêr, Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

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. He studied at the Teachers' Training Institute in Hewlêr (Erbil

Arbil

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), and participated in the Foundation Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union in Baghdad

Baghdad

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 in 1970. In 1973 he went to the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, and in 1979 he received an M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 in pedagogy with a specialisation in foreign languages. In 1984 he was granted a PhD

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 in Philology

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 from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences. For the next five years he was a professor at al-Fatih University in Tripoli, Libya. He has lived in Finland

Finland

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 since 1995.

He published his first poem in 1963 and his first collection in 1967. Since then he has published eight collections. The latest, Berew Zerdeper (Towards the Twilight), was published in Sweden

Sweden

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 in 2001. He has also translated a number of writers and poets into Kurdish

Kurdish language

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, including Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...

 and Alexandr Pushkin.