Hashim Ahmadzadeh
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Hashem Ahmadzadeh is a well-known Iranian and Kurdish
scholar, presently a lecturer in the Kurdish Studies Centre of the University of Exeter
.
. in 1996 he got his Master degree in the same department and in 2003 he finished his PhD
successfully. he has been living in England since 2005. He is married and has two children.
, as well as supervising doctoral students of Kurdish studies. His doctoral thesis, Nation
and Novel
: A Study of Kurdish
and Persian
Narratives Discourse, was translated into Turkish
in 2004 by Azad Zana Gundogan It was also translated into Persian
by Bakhtiar Sajjadi
in 2007. This work has been acclaimed by many as one of the rich academic sources on both Kurdish and Persian modern fiction as well as providing genuine insights regarding Kurdish nationalism
and its relation to the rise of novel in Kurdish literature.
His other works include a translation of Dr. Abbas Vali
's Genealogies of the Kurds: Constructions of Nation and National Identity in Kurdish Historical Writing ,The Kurds and their Others: Fragmented Identity and Fragmented Politics into Kurdish as well as Paul Auster
's The Red Notebook. Ahmadzadeh has contributed to referred international journals with his essays on modern Kurdish novel and literary criticism. Moreover, he has also delivered lectures on different aspects of Kurdish literature and nationalism in the international conferences on Kurdish issues.
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...
scholar, presently a lecturer in the Kurdish Studies Centre of the University of Exeter
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....
.
Biography
He was born in eastern Kurdistan in 1961. he got his Bachelor degree in English from Zahedan University in 1985. Afterwards he left Iran and settled in Sweden, where he received his Bachelor degree in political sciences in Uppsala UniversityUppsala University
Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477. It consistently ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of...
. in 1996 he got his Master degree in the same department and in 2003 he finished his PhD
PHD
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successfully. he has been living in England since 2005. He is married and has two children.
Academic works and publications
He teaches the modules for both undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies (IAIS). Furthermore, he is one of the founding members of the new MA in Kurdish studies which was established in 2006 in the University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university in South West England. It belongs to the 1994 Group, an association of 19 of the United Kingdom's smaller research-intensive universities....
, as well as supervising doctoral students of Kurdish studies. His doctoral thesis, Nation
Nation
A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, and/or history. In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government irrespective of their ethnic make-up...
and Novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
: A Study of Kurdish
Kurdish literature
Kurdish literature refers to literature written in Kurdish language. Literary Kurdish works have been written in one of the three main dialects of Gorani, Kurmanji and Sorani. Ali Hariri is one of the first well-known poets who wrote in Kurdish...
and Persian
Persian literature
Persian literature spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within historical Persia including present-day Iran as well as regions of Central Asia where the Persian language has historically been the national language...
Narratives Discourse, was translated into Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
in 2004 by Azad Zana Gundogan It was also translated into Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
by Bakhtiar Sajjadi
Bakhtiar Sajjadi
Bakhtiar Sadjadi is a Kurdish academician, writer and translator.He got his BA degree in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran in 1998 and his MA in the same field from Tehran University in 2000...
in 2007. This work has been acclaimed by many as one of the rich academic sources on both Kurdish and Persian modern fiction as well as providing genuine insights regarding Kurdish nationalism
Nationalism
Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...
and its relation to the rise of novel in Kurdish literature.
His other works include a translation of Dr. Abbas Vali
Abbas Vali
Professor Abbas Vali is a distinguished Kurdish political and social theorist specialising in modern and contemporary political thought and modern Middle Eastern Politics.-Biography:...
's Genealogies of the Kurds: Constructions of Nation and National Identity in Kurdish Historical Writing ,The Kurds and their Others: Fragmented Identity and Fragmented Politics into Kurdish as well as Paul Auster
Paul Auster
Paul Benjamin Auster is an American author known for works blending absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy , Moon Palace , The Music of Chance , The Book of Illusions and The Brooklyn Follies...
's The Red Notebook. Ahmadzadeh has contributed to referred international journals with his essays on modern Kurdish novel and literary criticism. Moreover, he has also delivered lectures on different aspects of Kurdish literature and nationalism in the international conferences on Kurdish issues.
External links
- Chatham House's new paper,The Kurdish Policy Imperative, Gareth Stansfield, Robert Lowe and Hashem Ahmadzadeh, December 2007
- Dr. Ahmadzadeh's teaching modules in Kurdish Studies
- world conference of Kurdish studies
- Dr. ahmadzadeh's articles in International Academic Journals
- Kurdish Aspect's interview with Dr. Ahmadzadeh
- Kurdish Globe's interview with Dr. Ahmadzadeh