Kozad Mohamed Ahmed
Welcome to my Academic Profile page. My name is Kozad Mohamed Ahmed and I am a lecturer holding (PhD) degree in Assyriology, teaching at Archaeology Department in the Faculty of Humanities at University of Sulaimani in Kurdistan Region, F.R. Iraq
Publications:
كوردستانى ناوەڕاست لە نيوەى يەكەمى هەزارەى دووەمى پ. ز.، سلێمانى چاپى يەكەم 2006، چاپى دووەم 2008.
“Two New Royal Inscriptions Dealing with Construction Work in Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta,” Baghdader Mitteilungen, Band 25 (1994), pp. 459-472. (Together with Dr. A.Fadhil and Dr. K. Deller).
“Idu in the Second Millennium BC,” NABU 2010, Paris.
“Satu Qala: A Preliminary Report on the seasons 2010-2011,” Anatolica XXXIX (2013). (With others)
Review of J. MacGinnis, Erbil in the Cuneiform Sources, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2014. Published in: Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. LXXII, no. 5-6 September- December, 2015, Leiden, The Netherlands.
"How to Subdue a Minority, Historiography as a Political Means under the Ba'ath Regime," Europa Ethnica 2018.
“Feasts and Festivals in Kurdistan: Past and Present,” Kaskal 15 (2018)
“In Secrecy, in the night!” Sending Spies, Messengers and Troops to Enemy Lands (Based on evidence from the Shemshara and Mari Archives), (Book chapter) (in press).
Review of Eidem, J., Zagros Studies. Proceedings of the NINO Jubilee Conference and other Studies on the Zagros Region, Bibliotheca Orientalis 78, no. 5-6 (2021), Leiden.
Tim Clayden and Kozad M. Ahmed, “’Aqar Qūf (Ancient Dūr-Kurigalzu) in Early Arab and Pre-17 century Ottoman Sources,” Mesopotamia 57 (2022).
· "الگوتيون و اللوللوبيون" فصل من كتاب من تاريخ شعوب الشرق الادنى القديم (بالعربية)
Conference papers:
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Rencontre Assyriologiques Internationale (RAI) 2012 (Leiden - The Netherlands)
Paper: The Kingdom of Zaziya Reconstructedز
Rencontre Assyriologiques Internationale (RAI) 2012 (Leiden - The Netherlands)
Paper (in association with Ch. W. Hess): Epigraphic Finds from Satu Qala.
Workshop of “The Assyrians on the Zab” in Leiden 2011: (Leiden - The Netherlands)
Paper: About Idu and Surroundings in the Second Millennium BC According to the Haladiny Inscription.
Workshop of “The Assyrians on the Zab” in Leipzig 2011: (Leipzig - Germany)
Paper: The Hittite Campaign of Tukulti-Ninurta I, New Facts.
Workshop of DUSANE in Leiden University 2008:(Leiden - The Netherlands)
Paper: The Range of the Kingdom of Simurrum under Iddi(n)-Sîn in the Light of Inscriptional Material.
Workshop of the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden University 2015: (Leiden - The Netherlands)
Paper: The Baziyan Building: A different Interpretation.
International Conference on Linguistic Heritage held by The Research Centre for
Linguistics, Inscriptions and Texts- 2015: (Tehran, Iran)
Paper: Sumerian and Akkadian Verbal Forms and Expressions as loan-words in Modern Near Eastern Languages (With a Special Focus on Arabic).
I teach several topics at my faculty, i.e.
1. Sumerian Language
2. Mesopotamian Civilization
3. History of the Ancient Near East
4. History of Ancient Kurdistan
5. Hurrian and Elamite Languages
My research interests focus on;
1. Mesopotamian History and Culture
2. Cuneiform Script and Ancient LAnguages (Assyriology).