Mariwan Kanie

Education

He studied at the University of Amsterdam, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy in humanities in 2010.

Career

Since 1993 he has lived and worked in the Netherlands. Kanie fled Iraq in 1993. His thesis is titled: Martyrdom between nation and religion.

He teaches in the department of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Jewish studies at the same university.

Four of his books have been published in Kurdistan. He publishes in the Kurdish newspapers Hawlati and Awena, and in January 2011 was indicted in Iraqi Kurdistan for an article in Awena that criticized president Massoud Barzani.

He also regularly publishes in the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw and appears on television in the news commentary programs Nova and Netwerk.

Achievements

• His book "Complex Identities" won the prize of the best non-fiction in 2004, this prize is issued by the Kurdish Ministry of Culture.

Politics

Political love, poetry, and self sacrifice in Kurdish nationalism.

Membership

He is one of the editorial board members of "Rahand", a Kurdish intellectual magazine.