Jalal Dabagh
Jalal Dabagh is an Iraqi Kurdish politician and writer.
Biography
Dabagh was born on 12 May 1939, in Silêmanî. He is one of nine children, five sons and four daughters.He received his compulsory and senior high school education in Silêmanî, where he also went on study at a teachers' training college.
In 1959, Dabagh started working as a teacher at a compulsory school in Silêmanî. Thereafter, in 1962, he went to Romania for three years studying social science at Bucharest Institute of Social Science.
He advanced his social science studies in Moscow between 1974 and 1976.
From 1970 to 1977, he was one of the board members of the Kurdish Writers Union, for which he was the administrative secretary 1970-74.
As one of the Kurdish representatives he attended the 5th conference of Afro-Asian Writers' Union 4–9 September 1973 in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan.
Dabagh is fluent in Kurdish and Arabic, he speaks or understands conversational Swedish, English, Romanian and Persian.
In addition, Jalal Dabagh worked as a journalist for over 25 years.
Jalal Dabagh was the party leader for the Left Party in the Kurdistan region of Iraq
Was a candidate for the Iraqi parliament in 2010.
Dabagh was a member of The Association for Pêşmerge Dêrînekan of Kurdistan, which is an association for the veteran Kurdish fighters. The purpose of the association is to preserve the rights of former fighters and also function as a forum for discussing the present and the future of Kurdistan.
Translation works
- The Communist Manifesto ''– first Kurdish language translation.''
- Raparini Kurdan 1925
- 'Karma'
- Wa Bahar Hat
- Pîawêkî Nabîn
- Tawawy Nusînakanî Fahd
Other notable translations are Freedom Road, about the lives of former slaves during Reconstruction, and Marxism Philosophy and the first Kurdish translation of "The Internationale".
Written
Published in: 2009.- Goranî Serkawtin
- 28 Estêre le Asmanî Nemrîda
- La Dafterî Geshtekî Regay Jîanewe
- Jîan û Tekoşanî Dîmitrov