Engineer and politician Sasan Osman Awni Habib, known as Sasan Awni, came to the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1991. In 1993, at the Eighth Congress, he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union and was later elected by the Executive Committee as the Secretary of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2019, he became the Minister of Municipalities and Tourism in the ninth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Biography

Sasan Awni was born in 1970 in the city of Erbil and is the son of the poet Osman Awni. In 1993, he received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Salahaddin University-Erbil. In 2010, he obtained a master's degree in management and economics from the Lebanese-French University in Erbil. He is proficient in Kurdish, Arabic, and English.

Struggle Record‌

Sasan Awni joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union in 1991 and joined the ranks of the Party in the same year. In 1993, he was appointed as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students and Youth Union, and in the same year, at the Eighth Congress (Congress of Freedom), he was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union and was later elected by the Executive Committee as the Secretary of the Kurdistan Students Union, and he continued in that position until 1998.

In 1993, he was a representative of the Eleventh Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party-United in the city of Erbil. In 1995, he was appointed as a branch administrator in the twenty-seventh staff of the Second Branch Committee. In 1999, he was a representative of the Twelfth Congress of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the city of Erbil.

In 2010, at the Thirteenth Congress he was elected as a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and from 2011-2019, he was the head of the Mass and Professional Organizations Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. In 2019, he became the Minister of Municipalities and Tourism in the ninth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Among his works:

  1. Public Relations, 1994.
  2. Public Relations, Positions and Steps, 1998.
  3. Kurdistan Students Union: Some Aspects of Struggle and History - 1998.
  4. Positions and Steps: Efforts of the Kurdistan Students Union to conduct student elections, 1997.
  5. The Middle East: Conflict and Hegemony, 2019.
  6. Vision, 2019.
  7. Some Organizational Dimensions: Observations and Vision, 2019.
  8. Moscow's Goals in the Middle East, 2019, translation (written by Dmitry Trenin).
Sources:
  1. Archive of the Encyclopedia Committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
  2. Sasan Awni, Kurdistan Students Union: Some Aspects of Struggle and History, (Erbil - Secretariat Office of the Kurdistan Students Union - Ministry of Education Press - 1998).
  3. Sirwan Osman, A Shining History and an Uninterrupted Caravan, (Erbil - Rewshanbiri Press - 2014).
  4. Shaban Ali Shaban, Some Political and Historical Information, Third Edition, (Erbil - Rojhalat Press - 2013).
  5. Irfan Aziz Aziz, Congresses and Conferences of the Kurdistan Students Union, (Erbil - Project for Writing the History of the Kurdistan Students Union - Rojhalat Press - 2012).