On November 4, 2020, CGDS visited the organizations for deaf people and for people of short stature. Dr. Lynn Rose, Deputy Director of CGDS and Ms. Tara Burhan, EU MENA Liaison, met with the management of both organizations; Mr. Shakir (Muhammad Usman), CGDS’s Jan Warner Visiting Scholar, was...
On Thursday, October 15, 2020, medialine.org , a news organization featuring news in the Middle East, hosted “Rising Kurdistan.” The main topic of this one-day event was young people’s contribution to social and political change in Kurdistan. The keynote speaker was Mr. Karwan Jamal Tahir, Kurdistan Regional Government...
On October 21st, 2020, CGDS Deputy Director Dr. Lynn Rose and EU MENA Coordinator Ms. Tara Burhan visited the Blind Union of Kurdistan. Mr Hawbash, the union’s president, gave us a brief overview of the organization. Founded on the 17th of July 1994, the main goal of the...
On October 14 2020, Deputy Director Dr. Lynn Rose and Ms. Tara Burhan, the MENA Coordinator for our EU project, visited Ms. Ashna Saeed, founder and director of Autism Blue. Mr. Lawen Sirwan accompanied as our translator. Autism Blue was registered as an NGO in 2014 to serve...
CGDS is pleased to welcome Tara Mohammed Shwani to our team. Ms.Tara now lives in the city of Sulaimani, but she was born in Baghdad and lived there for 10 years. Her position at CGDS is the MENA Community Liaison. This position helps CGDS to build a MENA-wide...
On Tuesday, September 29 th , CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi spoke on an Instagram Live event, “Feminism in Kurdistan.” Mr. Mohammed Faith, an AUIS graduate who is studying for his MA in Applied Islamic Ethics at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, hosted the session. The Live discussion started...
