Jalal Dabagh
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Jalal Dabagh (born 1939) is an 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...

 politician and writer/journalist.

Life

Jalal Dabagh was born on May 12, 1939, in Silêmanî
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq. It is the capital of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmar Range, Goizja Range and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with...

 city in south Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

. He is one of nine children, five sons and four daughters.

Education and Profession

He received his compulsory- and senior high school education in Silêmanî
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah is a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq. It is the capital of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. Sulaymaniyah is surrounded by the Azmar Range, Goizja Range and the Qaiwan Range in the north east, Baranan Mountain in the south and the Tasluje Hills in the west. The city has a semi-arid climate with...

, where he also went on studying at teachers' training college.

In 1959 Dabagh started working as a teacher at a compulsory school in Silêmanî. Thereafter, in 1962, he went to Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 for three years studying social science at Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 Institute of Social Science.

He advanced his social science studies in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

 (USSR
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

) between 1974 and 1976.

Between 1970-77 he was one of the board members of the Kurdish Writers Union, for which he was the administrative secretary 1970-74.

As one of the Kurdish representatives he attended the 5th conference of Afro-Asian Writers’ Union 4–9 September 1973 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

 (then one of the republics of USSR
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

).

Dabagh is fluent in Kurdish and Arabic, he speaks or understands conversational Swedish, English, Romanian and Persian.

In addition, Jalal Dabagh worked as a journalist for over 25 years.

Current affairs

Jalal Dabagh was recently elected as the party leader for the newly founded Left Party in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (south Kurdistan)

Was a candidate for the Iraqi parliament in 2010.

Dabagh was a member of The Association for Pêşmerge
Peshmerga
Peshmerga or Peshmerge is the term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. Literally meaning "those who face death" the Peshmerga forces of Kurdistan have been in existence since the advent of the Kurdish independence movement in the early 1920s, following the collapse of the Ottoman...

 Dêrînekan of Kurdistan, which is an association for the veteran Kurdish fighters. The purpose of the association is to preserve the rights of former fighters and also function as a forum for discussing the present and the future of Kurdistan.

He is also working on a biography about himself.

Commitment

Dabagh was Deputy editor of the weekly magazine "Bîrî Nwê" (New Idea), 1972-1978. "Bîrî Nwê" was published in Baghdad, both in Kurdish and Arabic, a magazine dealing with culture, politics and society. It had a major role in spreading progressive literature and culture.

Between 1986 and 1991 Dabagh was Chief Editor for the Kurdish edition of Problems of Peace and Socialism
Problems of Peace and Socialism
Problems of Peace and Socialism , often referred to by the name of its English-language edition World Marxist Review , was a joint theoretical and ideological journal of communist and workers parties around the world. It existed for 32 years, until closed down in June 1990. The offices of WMR were...

. In Kurdish named "Regay Aşti û Sosyalîzm.

Moreover, he was the Editor of "Govarî Bîrî Nwê", a monthly magazine.

Translated

  • "The Communist Manifesto
    The Communist Manifesto
    The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party is a short 1848 publication written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the...

    "
Dabagh made the first Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

 translation of The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party is a short 1848 publication written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the...

, one of the world's most influential political
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

 manuscripts.

Published in: 1996 and 2001
  • "Raparini Kurdan 1925"
Dabagh translated Manvel Arsenovic Gasratjan's Kurdy Turcsii v novejsee vremja (Kurdish: Raparini Kurdan 1925) to Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

. Raparini Kurdan 1925 is about the 1925 Sheikh Said rebellion
Sheikh Said rebellion
Sheikh Said Rebellion was a rebellion of a Kurdish clergy Sheikh Said and a group of former Kurdish Hamidieh soldiers in 1925.-Background:The Azadî was dominated by officers from the former Hamidiye, a Kurdish tribal militia established...

, led by Sheikh Said
Sheikh Said
Sheikh Said, also spelled Shaikh and/or Sa'id, Sa'īd, Saïd, Saeed may refer to:-People:*Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan*Sa'id ibn Zayd, companion of Muhammad...

.

Published in: 2006
  • "Karma
    Diagnostics of Karma
    Diagnostics of Karma is a series of 12 books, written by Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev, a Russian researcher and writer in bioenergetics and healing...

    "
He has also translated Diagnostics of Karma
Diagnostics of Karma
Diagnostics of Karma is a series of 12 books, written by Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev, a Russian researcher and writer in bioenergetics and healing...

 to Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....

. written by Sergey N. Lazarev
Diagnostics of Karma
Diagnostics of Karma is a series of 12 books, written by Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarev, a Russian researcher and writer in bioenergetics and healing...

. Which educates about alternative therapies with karma
Karma
Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies....

 in focus.

Published in: 2006
  • "Wa Bahar Hat"
A novel written by Haci Jindey, freely translated to "Now comes the Spring" was translated to Kurdish by Dabagh.

  • "Pîawêkî Nabîn"
Pîawêkî Nabîn (A Blind Man) is a manuscript originally written by Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer...


  • "Tawawy Nusînakanî Fahd"
Tawawy Nusînakanî Fahd is the collected works of Yusuf Salman Yusuf
Yusuf Salman Yusuf
Fahd , the nom de guerre of Yusuf Salman Yusuf , an ethnic Assyrian and Christian was one of the first Iraqi communist activists and was first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party from 1941 until his death on the gallows in 1949. He is generally credited with a vital role in the party’s rapid...

, also known merely as Fahd. It was translated to Kurdish by Jalal Dabagh.

Published in: 2001.

Other mentionable translations are Freedom Road
Howard Fast
Howard Melvin Fast was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.-Early life:Fast was born in New York City...

, about the lives of former slaves during Reconstruction, and Marxism Philosophy
Marxist philosophy
Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are terms that cover work in philosophy that is strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory or that is written by Marxists...

 and the first Kurdish translation of The Internationale
The Internationale
The Internationale is a famous socialist, communist, social-democratic and anarchist anthem.The Internationale became the anthem of international socialism, and gained particular fame under the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1944, when it was that communist state's de facto central anthem...

.

Written

  • "Hacî Qadirî Koyî
    Haji Qadir Koyi
    Haji Qadir Koyi , , was a Kurdish poet. He carried on the nationalistic message of Ahmad Khani in his writings. He wanted to enlighten the people and help them to remedy the problems of illiteracy and backwardness and ideas which result from lack of knowledge and religious fanaticism...

    "
Hacî Kaderî Koyey, freely translated in English to "Hajji Kader from Koye".

Published in: 2009.
  • "Goranî Serkawtin"
Freely translated to "Songs of Victory" is a collection of poems.

Published in: 1998.
  • "28 Estêre le Asmanî Nemrîda"
Freely translated to "28 Stars in the Sky of the Immortal.

Published in: 1985.
  • "La Dafterî Geshtekî Regay Jîanewe"
Freely translated to "Diary from Road of Life
Road of Life
The Road of Life was the ice road transport route across the frozen Lake Ladoga, which provided the only access to the besieged city of Leningrad in the winter months during 1941–1944 while the perimeter in the siege was maintained by the German Army Group North and the Finnish Defence Forces. ...

".

Published in: 1978.
  • "Jîan û Tekoşanî Dîmitrov"
Freely translated to "Life and Struggle of Dimitrov" is about the Bulgarian Communist leader Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov
Georgi Dimitrov Mikhaylov , also known as Georgi Mikhaylovich Dimitrov , was a Bulgarian Communist politician...

.

Published in: 1973.

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