Jalal Dabagh is a Kurdish politician and writer/journalist.
Life
Jalal Dabagh was born on May 12, 1939, in Silêmanî city in south Kurdistan. He is one of nine children, five sons and four daughters.
Education and Profession
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. Between 1970-77 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.
Current affairs
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. He is also working on a biography about himself.
Commitment
Dabagh was Deputy editor of the weekly magazine "Bîrî Nwê", 1972-1978. "Bîrî Nwê" was published in Baghdad, both in Kurdish and Arabic, a magazine dealing with culture, politics and society. It had a major role in spreading progressive literature and culture. Between 1986 and 1991 Dabagh was Chief Editor for the Kurdish edition of Problems of Peace and Socialism. In Kurdish named "Regay Aşti û Sosyalîzm. Moreover, he was the Editor of "Govarî Bîrî Nwê", a monthly magazine.
Work
Jalal Dabagh has written and translated numerous books.
Translated
"The Communist Manifesto"
Published in: 1996 and 2001
"Raparini Kurdan 1925"
Published in: 2006
"Karma"
Published in: 2006
"Wa Bahar Hat"
"Pîawêkî Nabîn"
"Tawawy Nusînakanî Fahd"
Published in: 2001. Other mentionable translations are Freedom Road, about the lives of former slaves during Reconstruction, and Marxism Philosophy and the first Kurdish translation of The Internationale.
