Biography

Dr. Naseh Ghafoor Ramadan, was born in the city of Kirkuk in the Year 1948. His origins trace back to the Zangana Feyli tribe, as his ancestors left the city of Kermanshah in East Kurdistan during the Safavid era and headed to South Kurdistan under Ottoman rule. He completed his three stages of education, primary, intermediate, and secondary, in the city of Kirkuk. He was appointed as a teacher of the revolution in the Year 1969 at the Penjwen Primary School. In the Year 1969, he was appointed to the position of inspector of the Education Department by Aylul Revolution in the Hawraman region of Sulaymaniyah Governorate. In the Year 1969, he was one of the students of the first course for teachers of the revolution in the village of Nawpirdan, affiliated with Erbil Governorate.

In the Year 1970, he began writing poetry. In the Year 1970, he headed to the Soviet Union for the purpose of study. In the Year 1971, he was accepted into the Department of International Relations and International Law at Kiev University. On June 22, 1976, he obtained a Master's degree in the Department of International Relations and International Law from Kiev University. On December 24, 1979, he defended his doctoral thesis in the philosophy of history - history of international relations and foreign policy from Kiev University, where it was accepted on April 23, 1980.

In the Year 1980, he headed to the Republic of Austria and was a refugee there until the Year 1981. In the Year 1981, he returned to Iran and resided there until the Year 1987. Between the years 1987-1991, he was a representative for President Masoud Barzani and the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Soviet Union. In the Year 1990, he sought refuge in the Kingdom of Sweden, and returned to the Kurdistan Region after the uprising of South Kurdistan.

In the Year 1996, he obtained the rank of Professor from Salahaddin University. Between the years (1997-2008), he was a lecturer in the Department of Law and Politics at the Evening College of Law and Politics at Salahaddin University (Hawler). He obtained the rank of Professor from Moscow University in the Year 2006. In the Year 2006, he became a member of the Writers in Prison Committee. He is fluent in the languages (Kurdish, Turkish, Azeri, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, German, Swedish).   

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He became associated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party organizations in the summer of the Year 1964, and in the Year 1966, he was proudly granted membership in the Party. He graduated in the Year 1969 from the first course of the Institute for Preparing Teachers of the Revolution, and graduated from the first course of the Institute for Preparing Cadres in the Year 1969. In the summer of the Year 1966, he was granted the honor of membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In the Year 1968, he worked in the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union inside the city of Kirkuk and was responsible for the cell. In the summer of the Year 1969, he joined the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces within the scope of the activities of the Third Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In (1969-1979), he was a member of the Penjwen Local Committee affiliated with the Fourth Branch Committee. 

In the Year 1970, he was a member of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe. Between the years (1971-1976), he was a member of the Ukraine Organization Committee of the Kurdish Students Association in the Soviet Union. On February 16-20, 1972, he participated in the 15th Congress of the Kurdish Students Association in Europe (K.S.S.E) in the Romanian city of Bucharest. Between the years (1976-1980), he was responsible for the Soviet Union Organization Committee affiliated with the Sixth Branch Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 1980-1981, he was a branch member of the Sixth Branch Committee - Europe of the Party. In the Year 1980, he supervised the Party's organizations in Austria.

In the Year 1981, he re-associated with the ranks of the Peshmerga Forces. On September 28, 1981, he was appointed as a member of the Media Department. In the Year 1981, he was responsible for the Kurdish Publications Division. In the Year 1981, he was appointed as responsible for the Sulaymaniyah Local Committee affiliated with the Fourth Branch Committee and an active member of the Fourth Branch Committee. He worked in (1984-1985) as a member of the Organizations Department. In (1985-1986), he was responsible for the Sulaymaniyah Local Committee affiliated with the Fourth Branch Committee. On October 5, 1985, he was selected as an active member of the Fourth Branch Committee. In the Year 1987, he worked in the Relations Department in Syria. Between the years (1988-1991), he worked as a scientific researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Soviet Union in the city of Moscow. In the Year 1989, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party by the Congress Representatives of the Tenth Conference. On November 5, 1991, he was appointed as a department member in the Organization Department, and on December 8, 1991, he was appointed as responsible for the Cadres Institute affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party. From December 16, 1991, until February 18, 1992, he was a professor of the curriculum and internal regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the main foundations of party organizations in the ninth course of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadres Institute in the Pirman district of Erbil Governorate.

On October 16, 1993, he delivered a speech as Minister of Education in the Kurdistan Regional Government at the Freedom Congress of the Kurdistan Students Union and the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union in the city of Erbil. He was the director of the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th courses of the Party Cadres Institute and continued in that role until the Year 2002. In the Year 1992, he became a member of the Kurdistan National Parliament on the Kurdistan Democratic Party list. On July 4, 1992, he was appointed Minister of Education (the first cabinet). He published a poem in the Khabat newspaper, the mouthpiece of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, on Wednesday, August 19, 1992. In the Year 1993, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Unified by the Congress Representatives of the Eleventh Congress. On April 25, 1993, he was appointed Minister of Education in the second cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government. On Saturday, May 29, 1993, he was received as Minister of Education in the Kurdistan Regional Government by the Parliament of the Bayern region in the Federal Republic of Germany, Ms. Barbel Hammer. In December of the Year 1993, he participated as Minister of Education in the Kurdish Language Conference organized by the Sorbonne University and the Kurdish Institute in Paris. In the Year 1993, he was elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party – Unified by the Congress Representatives of the Eleventh Congress. On October 16, 1993, he attended as Minister of Education the Freedom Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union and the Kurdistan Students Union in the city of Erbil. From December 23, 1994, until March 28, 1995, he held a sit-in with 58 deputies in the Kurdistan National Parliament building from all lists to condemn the civil war. On December 30, 1994, the contents of his home in Erbil were looted and stolen by gunmen of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. In the autumn of the Year 1996, he visited Moscow as a representative of President Masoud Barzani, accompanied by Aziz Muhammad and Dr. Ezzeddin Mustafa Rasul, for the purpose of obtaining support from the authorities of that state for the Kurdish cause. On December 19, 1996, he was a member of the Higher Education Committee (first session), and on December 19, 1996, he was a member of the Relations Committee in the Kurdistan National Parliament (first session).   

In 1977 he was responsible for the tenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil, in 1998 he became responsible for the eleventh session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute, and in 1998 he was a professor of the subject (Partisanship) in the eleventh session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute, on September 9, 1998 he was a member of the Higher Education Committee and a member of the Peshmerga Affairs Committee in the Kurdistan National Assembly (first session), in 1999 he published an article in Arabic in Zagros magazine, in 1998 he participated with Falakaddin Kakayi in the Media Conference in Kurdistan in the city of Moscow, in 1999 he nominated himself for membership of the Central Committee in the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party but he did not win. 

On March 14, 2000 he was a member of the preparatory committee for commemorating the birthday of the national leader of the Kurds, the immortal Barzani, by the Kurdistan National Assembly (first session), on April 11, 2000 he was a member of the Education and Higher Education Committee in the Kurdistan National Assembly (first session), in 2001 he was a member of the committee for monitoring the living conditions of Kurdish refugees in European countries and foreign countries in the Kurdistan National Assembly (first session), on May 17, 2001 he was the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party bloc in the Kurdistan National Assembly and remained in this position until March 2006, on April 3-5, 2001 he attended on behalf of Dr. Roj Nouri Shaways, known as Dr. Roj Shaways, the Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly, at the first academic conference on Kirkuk in the Erbil Culture Hall and delivered a speech there. 

In 2001 he was a professor of the subject of Organization, Curriculum and Internal Regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the twelfth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil, on Thursday, November 2, 2001 he participated with President Masoud Barzani in the graduation ceremony of the twelfth session of the Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil, on April 6, 2002 he became the head of Education and Higher Education Affairs for the Kurdistan National Assembly (first session), in 2001 he was a professor of the subject of Curriculum and Internal Regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the thirteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil, on November 31, 2002 he became the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party bloc in the Kurdistan National Assembly (first session), in February 2003 he visited the Russian Republic accompanied by Dr. Roj Nouri Shaways, known as Dr. Roj Shaways, the Speaker of the Kurdistan National Assembly, as part of a Kurdistan Democratic Party delegation with the aim of strengthening relations. 

From February 14, 2004 until April 14, 2004 he was a professor of the subject of Curriculum and Internal Regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the fourteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil, in the years (2003-2013) he was responsible for the Civil Society and Democracy Development Council in Kirkuk, on January 30, 2005 he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Democratic National List number 162 to the Kurdistan National Assembly, in 2005 he was a member of the Relations and Cultural Affairs Committee in the Kurdistan National Assembly (second session), on June 4, 2005 he became a member of the Kurdistan National Assembly (second session), on September 9, 2005 and by a decision of the President of the Kurdistan Region he became a member of the committee for reviewing and implementing Article 58 of the Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period (second session), on August 23, 2005 he was a member of the Relations and Social Affairs Committee in the Kurdistan National Assembly (second session), in 2006 he was a member of the international organization for the Society for Threatened Peoples. On November 27-29, 2006 he participated in the Russia and the Islamic World conference in the city of Moscow, on December 6, 2006 he was awarded the Mikhail Lomonosov Medal by the National Committee for Social Awards of the Russian Federation in Moscow, in 2007 he was a professor of the subject of Curriculum and Internal Regulations of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the sixteenth session of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute in the city of Erbil, in 2010 he was a candidate for the Kurdistan Alliance list for membership of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, in 2014 he was the only person in the Middle East and Africa to be accepted as a member of the Central Committee of the World Peace Games organization, in 2010 he was a delegate to the Thirteenth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, on December 18, 2010 President Barzani awarded him the Immortal Barzani Medal in recognition of his struggle and sacrifices in the September and Gulan revolutions and the uprising phase of South Kurdistan.     

Among his works:

1- Who are the revolutionaries - 1982.

2- The Kurdish Question in international agreements and treaties of the first quarter of the twentieth century - Master's thesis - 1976.

3- The Kurdish Question in the Treaty of Sèvres - 1978.

4- The Kurdish Question in the international relations system between the two World Wars - Doctoral thesis - 1979.

5- Some necessary pages on the opinions of the Social Democrats - 1982.

Refugee Diary - 1981.

6- The important beginnings of party organization - 1984.

7- The path of perseverance - 1986.

8- Who is a cadre? - 1998.

9- The Kurdish Question today and the role of the KDP in the Kurdish liberation movement (in Russian) - 1990.

10- Some aspects of the national heritage and struggle of the immortal Barzani - 2002.

11- What are elections and the election process, and how are they conducted? - 2009.

12- What is a constitution - 2009.

13- The heritage and path of the immortal Barzani in theory and practice - 2010.

14- Public International Law - ready for printing.

15- Constitutional Law - ready for printing.

16- International problems and conflicts - ready for printing. 

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