Publications

PhD Title:

Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in the Kurdistan Region post-civil war

MA Thesis:

To What Extent, Can the Concept of Security be broadened? The Case of The Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq post 2003

Journal Article

Memory and trauma in the Kurdistan genocide." Ethnicities 23.3 (2023): 426-448
The Kurdish Civil War and Peace Negotiations, 1994–1998. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 00219096211062470.
ORDER VS JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: The Kurdish Question in the English School Perspective." World Affairs 185.1 (2022): 91-113.
The Rise and Fall of Movement for Change in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2009 - 2018), Asian Journal of Comparative Politics.
Kurdish–Iraqi state conflict (de‐) escalation following the independence referendum. Digest of Middle East Studies 30.3 (2021): 221-236.
Political parties and the political system in Iraqi Kurdistan. Journal of Asian and African studies 56.4 (2021): 754-773.
The consequences of the fragmented military in Iraqi Kurdistan. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 48.2 (2021): 331-346.
"What explains the abandonment of Yezidi people by the Kurdish forces in 2014? Foreign support or internal factors. Ethnopolitics 20.4 (2021): 428-449.
The Securitization and De-Securitization of Kurdish Societal Security in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, And Syria, World Affairs, Vol. 183, N0.4: 291-314.
IRAQI KURDISTAN’S 2017 INDEPENDENCE REFERENDUM: THE KDP’S PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MOTIVES. Asian Affairs, pp.1-17.
Minority Representation and Reserved Legislative Seats in Iraqi Kurdistan. Contemporary Review of the Middle East 7, no. 4: 381-402.
Framing the fall of Sinjar: Kurdish media’s coverage of the Yazidi genocide, Middle Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2019.1580192
Factionalism Within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Journal of Asian and African Studies, .0021909619854111.
Kurdistan’s referendum: the withdrawal of the Kurdish Forces in Kirkuk. Asian Affairs 50.3 (2019): 364-383.
De-politicization of the partisan forces in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. National Identities 22.2 (2020): 111-131.
The nature of the political system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Asian Journal of Comparative Politics 5.3 (2020): 300-315.
Article 140 Between Baghdad and KRG: The Future of Kirkuk Status in Post 16 October. India Quarterly, 75(4), pp.510-524.
One battle, two narratives? Rudaw’s framing during the 2017 conflict over the disputed territories of the Kurdistan region and Iraq. The Journal of International Communication 24.2 (2018): 238-261.
Partisan Armed Forces of Kurdistan Regional Government, Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Villanova University, USA, Vol. XLI, No.
The Loss of Disputed Territories: what is next for the Kurdistan Region?” Middle East Review of International Affairs, Rubin Center, Vol.21, No.2 (2017), pp. 58-68.
Politicization of Kurdish security in Iraq since 2003. Jadavpur Journal of International Relations, 19(2), 137-158.
State security, societal security, and human security." Jadavpur Journal of International Relations 21.1 (2017): 1-19.

Policy Briefs, Op-Ed articles

Systemic Crisis in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”, Foreign Policy Research Institute,

available at: https://www.fpri.org/article/2018/01/systemic-crisis-kurdistan-region-iraq

Kurdistan’s Struggle for Sovereignty: State, Societal, and Human Security, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies,pp.1-13, available at:https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/PoliticalStudies/Pages/Kurdistan%E2%80%99s-Struggle-for-Sovereignty-State,-Societal,-and-Human-Security.aspx
Politicized Forces and the Issue of an Independent Kurdish State, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, available at: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/fikraforum/view/politicized-forces-and-the-issue-of-an-independent-kurdish-state
The death of Jalal Talabani and the future of the PUK”, Middle East Monitor, available at: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171003-the-death-of-jalal-talabani-and-the-future-of-the-puk/
The Islamic State’s Foreign Policy”, Modern Diplomacy, September 9, 2017, available at: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2017/09/09/the-islamic-state-s-foreign-policy/

Articles in Kurdish,