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EU Project: CGDS Director Interview with Voice of America on Gender Equality

Funded by the EU, CGDS is producing podcasts, in Kurdish, Arabic and English to promote understanding of gender issues in the region. The following is one of the podcasts produced for the project. The podcast began by discussing the differences between gender equality and gender superiority. The latter tends to...

Balen Salih from The Voice of America hosted Dr. Choman Hardi in a discussion about gender inequality in the Kurdistan Region.

EU Project: An interview of Dr. Lynn Rose, Dr. Andrea Zittlau, Mr. Shko Shwan, & Mr. Rezhyar Fakhir with XFM by Kosha Hussein and Helan Star

Funded by the EU, CGDS is producing podcasts, in Kurdish, Arabic and English to promote understanding of gender issues in the region. The following is one of the podcasts produced for the project. The main theme of this podcast is feminism. The definition of what feminism is, its misconceptions, and...

Dr. Andrea Zittlau who is a teacher at the University of Rostock, Germany. Mr. Rezhyar Fakhir, an advocate for peace who has held several workshops through the Christian Peacemaker Team. Dr. Lynn Rose, who is a professor of the Social Sciences at AUIS and Deputy Director at CGDS. Mr. Shko Shwan who began as CGDS’ co-ordinator and is currently the project manager for the EU project.

EU Project: An interview of Dr. Edith Szanto by Lynn Rose about Women and Islam

Funded by the EU, CGDS is producing podcasts, in Kurdish, Arabic and English to promote understanding of gender issues in the region. The following is one of the podcasts produced for the project. Dr. Edith Szanto, whose PhD in Religious Studies is from the University of Toronto, served as assistant...

Dr. Edith Szanto, whose PhD in Religious Studies is from the University of Toronto, served as assistant professor at AUIS for several years.

EU Project: Dr. Choman Hardi’s Interview about Gender Based Violence with Nawa Radio Station

Funded by the EU, CGDS is producing in Kurdish, Arabic and English to promote understanding of gender issues in the region. The following is one of the podcasts produced for the project. In 2007, Dw’a’s murder sent a ripple of shock through society and the case is still under investigation...

Dr. Choman Hardi Director of Center for Gender Studeis and Development was invited to this podcast to discuss the attempts at preventing Gender Based Violence (GBV).

EU Project: Interview with Ms. Maysoon Al-Damluji by Dr. Akeel

Funded by the EU, CGDS is producing podcasts, in Kurdish, Arabic and English to promote understanding of gender issues in the region. The following is one of the podcasts produced for the project. She mentions how in certain aspects, women have contributed more than men inside the parliament. However, women...

Ms. Maysoon, is a liberal Iraqi women’s rights activist and a member of the Iraqi parliament. In this podcast she discusses the role of women in both the Iraqi parliament and politics.

EU Project: An Interview of Dr. Akeel Abbas with ‘Nawa Radio Station’ about the history of Women’s rights in Iraq

Funded by the EU, CGDS is producing in Kurdish, Arabic and English to promote understanding of gender issues in the region. The following is one of the podcasts produced for the project. The encouragement of women’s rights in Iraq began in 1910 by the famous Iraqi poet Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi...

Dr. Akeel Abbas, Assistant Professor in the English Department at AUIS and a memeber of the EU project team, in a podcast discusses the history of iraqi feminism, and how it was origniated from 1910 until the modern day.

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