In February 2019, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi traveled to Lebanon to meet with various gender studies scholars to discuss CGDS’ current EU project. The scholars included Connie Christiansen, Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the Lebanese American University; Joanna Fayad, Gender Integration Specialist at the Lebanese American...
On Thursday, October 24th, 2019, His Excellency Dr. Aram Mohammed welcomed a delegation from CGDS to his offices in Erbil. The Minister of Higher Education stated his support for the work of CGDS. We discussed how to go forward with the August 2018 MoHE decree to establish gender...
On March 10th, 2020, CGDS Director Dr. Choman Hardi, was invited by Dr. Stanley Thangaraj, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Gender Studies, and International Studies, to give a speech at the City College of New York. The speech regarded how Dr. Hardi has set up Gender Studies in Kurdistan-Iraq....
On Saturday May 23rd, 2020, Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, participated in the webinar “COVID-19 and its Impacts on the differently-abled community.” The webinar was sponsored and produced by WDRPA, the World Disability and Rehabilitation Professionals Association, with which CGDS partnered for the event. Also participating in the...
Dr. Lynn Rose, CGDS Deputy Director, has been invited to be the plenary speaker for the World Disability and Rehabilitation Virtual Conference 2020 (WDRVC 2020) to be held in June 2020. Her talk, “Disabling Myths,” outlines misunderstandings in popular culture about people with disabilities. Dr. Lynn serves as Iraq’s...
In this podcast, Dr. Choman Hardi is interviewed by Tre Mohammad of Aryan TV. The interview discusses women’s rights, gender equality, the patriarchal system, and stigmatization faced by the women’s organizations in Kurdistan
In this interview, Dr. Choman Hardi spoke about the events associated with a joint defamation lawsuit brought against Mullah Mazhar Khorasany by twenty-seven human rights activists, headed by Ms. Bahar Munzir.
Dr. Lynn Rose, Deputy Director at CGDS, is interviewing Ms. Alex Poppe, who is with the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, and who is author of several published works of fiction and nonfiction, including two books: Girl, World (2017) and Moxie (2019).
An interview of the social activist from Hillah, Rawan Salim with Dr. Akeel Abas. Rawan’s childhood and upbringing was filled with conflict between her father and mother. The father was open minded and liberal, and the mother was conservative and religious.
A skype interview with Journalist Tamara Imad. Studying Media and Television at university; Imad started as a blogger on Tumblr. She had various interests and started writing about politics, human rights, and social life.
