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Born 01/07/1971, Tawilah, Kurdistan, Iraq Education/ Qualification Sulaimanyah Fine Art Institute/ Iraq 1984 -1989 Other Skills • Running Art workshops/ Adult and children age 7 to 15 • Face painting • Organising festivals and events • Interpreting/ Translating Spoken Languages Kurdish, Arabic, Farsi, English Employment • Apr 2005 – present Nottingham Long Journey Home/ Group Coordinator • Sep 2003 – present Nottingham Refugee Forum/ Floating Support Worker • 1994 – 2000 Education Department, Iraq/ Art Teacher • 1998 – 2000 The Centres for Defence of Children’s Rights/ Assistant Manager Project Manager, Editor of Children’s World news letter Exhibition • Postcard exhibition Surface gallery 17-30 December 06 • Angle Arts Bistro/ Nottingham 01– 15 October 06 • Nottingham Refugee Forum/ official opening event on 22/05/06 • Surface Gallery in Nottingham 7th July 2005. • Surface Gallery in Nottingham July 2003 • Art Exchange in Nottingham June 2003 • Fine Art Association Gallery in Sulaimanyah/ Iraq 1997 • Sulaimanyah Museum in Sulaimanyah Iraq 1998 Other activities: • Run a print making workshop (in celebration of refugee week) at Nottingham Refugee Forum on 16, 17/06/06 and exhibited the art works for two weeks at the Forum. • Run a workshop for Refugee Week 'creating art by using mediums from the garden' at Ecoworks Community gardens for children and adults. June 06. • Presented slide show of my painting at the Nottingham Play House on 30/09/05. • Run art workshops in 3 schools in Nottingham 2004 about live of refugees. • Run adult art course for learning basics of drawing and painting in Nottingham 2002 • Coordinated Monday Nights Children Art Club at Nottingham Refugee Forum 2002-2003 • Organised many art activities for children in Iraq such as festivals, exhibition and poem/ story writing workshops. 1994 – 2000.