CKS Film Screening :'Agneta, the Swedish Peshmerga'
The Centre for Kurdish Studies and the Digital Archive of the Middle East (DAME) project are delighted to invite you to join our next event
Followed by a talk given by Dr Omar Sheikhmous 'Kurds in Post-Assad and Post- Baathist Syria - Possibilities and Challenges'
An Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies research event | |
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Date | 12 February 2025 |
Time | 16:00 to 18:00 |
Place | IAIS Building/LT1 |
Provider | Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
Event details
The Centre for Kurdish Studies and the Digital Archive of the Middle East (DAME) project are delighted to invite you to join our next event,
film screening 'Agneta, the Swedish Peshmerga', honoring the memory of Agneta Kling Sheikhmous followed by a talk by
Dr Omar Sheikhmous
'Kurds in Post-Assad and Post- Baathist Syria - Possibilities and Challenges'
Wednesday 12 February 16.00-18.00 pm, IAIS LT1 and 2
Refreshments from 15.30
The fall of the Assad Regime, on Dec. 8, 2024, has opened many possibilities for the Kurds in Syria to achieve their national, cultural, linguistic and democratic political rights. It gives them the opportunity to peacefully and through negotiations with the new
regime to get recognition and become equal partners in a just power-sharing system with other communities in Syria. However, they also face a number of significant challenges which will explored in this talk.
Short Biography: Born in Amouda in the Kurdish areas of Syria (Aldjazira), Omar Sheikhmous studied International relations, Political Science and International Politics at the Universities of London and Stockholm. He has published extensively on the Kurds, human rights, migration and Islam. During his student years, he was a member of the executive committee of the “Kurdish Students’ Society in Europe” and the editor of its English-language magazine, “Kurdistan”. After graduation, he was a lecturer in political science at Stockholm University and a lecturer/researcher of International Migration and Ethnic Relations. He also taught special courses on religion, society and politics in the Middle East. He was Member of the Board of the University of HTU in Sweden, Member of Swedish PEN, and founding member of the Swedish Committee for the Human Rights of the Kurds “SKKMR”, 1989- 1995. In the 1960, 70s & 80s, he assisted Kurdish resistance movements in Iran and Iraq and was editor of some of their newspapers in Kurdish, Arabic and English. He is one of the founders of PUK in 1975 and member of its leadership organs, including the political bureau in charge of foreign relations until 1986. For a number of years, together with his Swedish wife, Agneta, he joined the ranks of the Kurdish Peshmergas who fought the regime of Saddam Hussein for Kurdish self-government in Iraq. Omar joined the Kurdish Service of the VOA as Senior Editor in 2001 and in 2005 became Chief of the Kurdish Service until 2007. He has acted as Personal Advisor to President of Iraq, Jelal Talabani, 2007-2012, and Advisor to the Chairman of the Syrian National Council, 2012, among other roles.
Location:
IAIS Building/LT1