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...
We are delighted to announce that Dr Shakir (Muhammed Usman) passed his PhD examination with the grade of “1” (“excellent”) and has earned his interdisciplinary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His dissertation title is “History of Shia, Sunni and Yazidi Conflict: A Political, Social, or Religious...
On June 25, 2021, CGDS Deputy Director Dr. Lynn Rose participated in a digital symposium on disabilities in antiquity. The focus of the symposium was on how in antiquity visual, auditive, and mobility impaired individuals found their place in society. The symposium was organized on the occasion of the...
On June 18 th 2021, Dr. Choman Hardi was one of the two keynote speakers who opened the online conference, “Revisiting Legacies of Anfal and Reconsidering Genocide in the Middle East Today: Collective Memory, Victimhood, Resilience and Enduring Trauma.” The conference was jointly organized by the Centre for...
On May 24th 2021, 25 young women, who are interested in working for women's rights NGOs, participated in an event organized by Spark Organization as part of their 22+You campaign. This campaign is a network of 22 youth leaders from Erbil, Halabja, and Sulaimani, who work as a...
On the 29th of May, 2021, in the company of several politicians and women’s right activists, Dr. Choman Hardi participated in an all day conference titled, “Women’s Issues from Different Political and Ideological Perspectives.” The event was organized by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s Bureau of Intellectual Development....
CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi, Deputy Director Dr. Lynn Rose, and Research Assistant Ms. Kali Yaseen traveled to Erbil on June 7-8, 2021. As part of our UNFPA project to study gender equity in the region, we conducted interviews in several ministries. UNFPA and CGDS work together to promote...
CGDS is delighted to announce that Ms. Sewe Anwar Kader, CGDS Coordinator, has been accepted for graduate study in English-Language Literature at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, one of the world’s top 100 universities. Ms. Sewe holds a Bachelor of Arts (2019) in English Literature from the American...
