On the 5 th of July 2021, the Center for Gender and Development Studies team conducted a focus group discussion (FGD) in Erbil. This was for our gender-based violence research project in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, funded by The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). The FGD was...
On August 3, 2021, CGDS visited the Blind Institute in Sulaimani. Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Research and Disability Studies, and Ms. Kali Yaseen, CGDS Research Assistant, met with the incoming Director of the Blind Union, Mr. Omer Khider Omer....
After earning his PhD with the highest score from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, on June 29, 2021, Dr. Shakir (Muhammed Usman) has presented a conference paper and published four pieces of scholarship. Since arriving in Sulaimani as the first CGDS Jan Warner Visiting Scholar in October 2020,...
On July 27, 2021 the Center for Gender and Development Studies and the Department of Social Sciences hosted the symposium “Gender and Islam: A Historical Perspective and the Way Forward.” Resulting from the spring semester course in the gender studies minor taught by CGDS Jan Warner Visiting Scholar...
After visiting Somalia last March, CGDS nominated Mr. Ismail Ahmed Ali for the D-30 Disability Impact Listbecause of his extraordinary work with the Al Basir School for the Blind...
James Thornton, British Consul -General of Erbil met with Dr . Choman Hardi, the director of CGDS, and Dr. Twana Hassan a researcher at CGDS o n June 15, 2021 . After highlighting the current projects of CGDS and its priorities, Dr. Choman emphasized on the significance of...
