On March 17, 2022, Manara Magazine published the piece “Disability Rights as Human Rights in Sulaimani, Kurdistan-Iraq, authored by Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Disability Studies. The piece appears in the first issue of 2022, titled “Suffering, Perseverance, and Hope: Minority Voices from the Middle East and North...
On March 17, 2022, CGDS Director of Disability Studies Dr. Lynn Rose attended the Amazha Organization’s International Deaf Spring Conference, held at the Dawa Hotel in Sulaimani. Speakers, sign language interpreters, and audience members attended from the US and Qatar, as well as from Kurdistan. Several informational talks shed...
On March 9, 2022, Mr. Kocher Karim, Director of the Thalassemia Society in Sulaimani, spoke about this hereditary blood disorder and about his own experiences with it in “Introduction to Disability Studies.” This class, which focuses on disability as a cultural and historical phenomenon, and on disability rights as...
Mr. Robert Palladino, United States Consul General to Erbil, visited with CGDS on March 3, 2022. Dr. Choman Hardi, CGDS Director, and Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Disability Studies, spoke with the Consul General and his staff about issues of gender in Kurdistan-Iraq and the MENA region....
On February 21, 2022, Manara Magazine published Part One of the three-part series, “‘With Education You Can Face Every Struggle’: Gendered Higher Education in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan.” The introduction to the series begins as follows: “In patriarchal communities, women’s dependency on men can lead to their being trapped...
On February 22, 2022, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Director of Disability Studies, attended “Disability Inclusion in Education,” a conference organized by the Halabja Disability Organization (HDO) and held in Erbil. HDO team members presented some of their research on inclusive education from 2020-2022, and sought feedback and recommendations from...
On February 23, 2022, Mr. Shanaw Peshraw, a lawyer who works on behalf of refugees and IDPs for Heartland Alliance, spoke about his experiences as a blind person to the students in the “Introduction to Disability Studies” class. This class, which focuses on disability as a cultural and historical...
On 16 February 2022, Mr. Bakhtawar Barzan, who teaches Instructional Technology in Sulaimani, spoke to Dr. Lynn Rose’s “Introduction to Disability Studies” class about his experiences as a person with a disability. We at CGDS believe that community voices must be included in our pursuits of teaching and...
On January 31, 2022, Dr. Lynn Rose was appointed to the Panel of Foreign Experts at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India, as Visiting Professor. She will serve as an expert in disability intersectionality for the School of Behavioural Sciences and IUCDS, the Inter University Center for Disability Studies....
