Background
Sido was born in 1961 in the Kurdish region of Syria.
Sido was born in 1961 in the Kurdish region of Syria.
In 1989 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in History from the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In 1980, after graduating from high school, he moved to Moscow, Russia, where he focused on history and Oriental studies. From 1990 to 2006, Sido lived and worked in Marburg, Hesse, in the Federal Republic of Germany. Sido has served as consultant for the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in Göttingen, Germany, since 2006.
He is an interpreter and sworn translator for Kurdish (Kurmanci and Sorani, Arabic and Russian).
Foreign several years, Sido has been politically active in the German Free Democratic Party (Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party)) and was head of the Ausländerbeirat in Marburg between 2003 and 2006.