Kamal Sido

Kamal Sido at an event organized by the Society for Threatened Peoples , 2011.

Kamal Sido-Kurdaxi (also: Kemal Sîdo ; * 1961 in Afrin , Syria ) is a Syrian- Kurdish historian who lives in Germany.

Life

Sido grew up in the Kurdish part of Syria. After finishing school he went to Moscow in 1980 , where he studied history and oriental studies. In 1989 he finished his studies with a doctorate at the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . He has lived in Germany since 1990.

Kamal Sido is the author of several publications in Kurdish, Arabic, Russian, German and Turkish. Until 2006 he lived and worked in Marburg . Since 2006 he has been the Middle East advisor for the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in Göttingen . He is sworn in as an interpreter and translator for Kurdish , Arabic and Russian .

Kamal Sido has been politically active in the FDP in Germany for several years and headed the Foreigners Advisory Council in Marburg from 2003–2006.

Works (selection)

Phrasebook Kurdish. Blaue Hörner Verlag, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-926385-22-7 ( Kurmandschi ).

Web links

Commons : Kamal Sido - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Kamal Sido in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ "I thought the whole world spoke Kurdish", life stories of the Kurdish migrants, from Memo Şahin, with a foreword by Prof. Dr. Udo Steinach, Pro Humanitate 2013, ISBN‐ 3‐933884‐12‐8

personal data
SURNAME	Sido, Kamal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sido Kurdaxi, Kamal; Sido, Kemal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Syrian Kurdish historian
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Afrin

[1] "I thought the whole world spoke Kurdish", life stories of the Kurdish migrants, from Memo Şahin, with a foreword by Prof. Dr. Udo Steinach, Pro Humanitate 2013, ISBN‐ 3‐933884‐12‐8