Feryad Fazil Omar
Feryad Fazil Omar (born September 11, 1950 in Sulaimaniyya , Iraq ) is a Kurdish writer, literary and linguist. Since 1982 he has been a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin at the Institute for Iranian Studies in the Department of History and Cultural Studies. Omar is the founder and director of the Institute for Kurdish Studies in Berlin. From 2012 to 2017 he was federal chairman of the human rights organization Society for Threatened Peoples .
Life
Feryad Fazil Omar was born in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyya. Until 1978 he was a lecturer there at the first Kurdish university. After receiving a research fellowship at the Free University of Berlin, he left Iraq in 1978. At the Institute for Iranian Studies at the Free University of Berlin, he held seminars and lectures on the literature, history and politics of the Kurds and devoted himself to the writing of textbooks and dictionaries on the Kurdish language and literature as well as scientific treatises. He has also been writing poetry about love, oppression and human rights violations since the 1970s . Nevertheless, he does not see himself as a politician. According to Omar, the image of the Kurds in Europe is still shaped by Karl Mays Durchs Wild Kurdistan . He sees it as his concern to straighten this picture.
Services
Omar's most important works include the `` Kurdish-German Dictionary (Nordkurdisch / KurmancÎ) '' , first published in 1992 , which in its 3rd edition (2016) includes around 35,000 Kurdish words in Latin-Kurdish and Arabic-Kurdish script on 736 pages Contains more than 120,000 word explanations and represents a basic work for research by the Orient Institutes. In 2005 he published the first Kurdish-German dictionary (Central Kurdish / Soranî) , which was created over a period of more than twelve years and comprises around 60,000 headwords on 1,184 pages. His work German-Kurdish Dictionary (Central Kurdish / Soranî) , published in 2016, extends to almost 2000 pages with 100,000 keywords.
Web links
- Speech by Feryad Fazil Omar on the occasion of the presentation of the first German-Kurdish dictionary , Society for Threatened Peoples, 23 February 2016
- Feryad Fazil Omar in conversation with Michael Koehler , Deutschlandfunk , October 12, 2014
- Feryad Fazil Omar on the Kurdish question , BZ of August 14, 2014
- Institute for Kurdish Studies Berlin by Feryad Fazil Omar
Individual evidence
- ^ Institute for Iranian Studies , Free University of Berlin , accessed on July 9, 2017
- ^ Institute for Kurdish Studies Berlin , accessed on July 9, 2017
- ↑ Bundesvorstand gfbv , Society for Threatened Peoples , accessed on July 9, 2017
- ↑ Press Office FU , Freie Universität Berlin , accessed on July 9, 2017
- ^ Kurdish-German dictionary (North Kurdish / Kurmancî) , Institute for Kurdish Studies Berlin, accessed on July 9, 2017
- ↑ Kurdish-German Dictionary (Central Kurdish / Soranî) , Institute for Kurdish Studies Berlin, accessed on July 9, 2017
- ^ German-Kurdish dictionary (Central Kurdish / Soranî) , Institute for Kurdish Studies Berlin, accessed on July 9, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Omar, Feryad Fazil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurdish writer, literary and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulaimaniyya , Iraq |