I am a lecturer at the University of Sulaimani in Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Department of Politics and IR.  I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Sulaimani in Peace Studies in 2024, and obtained my M.A. in International Studies at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. My articles have appeared in well-known international journals including Ethnopolitics, Ethnicities, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Asian Affairs Journal, Digest of Middle East Studies, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, World Affairs, Contemporary Review of the Middle East and National Identities.

E-mail: hawre.faraj@univsul.edu.iq ♦ ORCID iD:  0000-0003-1787-0718