Zakarya Bezdoode is an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kurdistan and a part-time researcher at the Kurdistan Studies Institute of the University of Kurdistan, Iran. He does research on contemporary English and Kurdish fiction.
Statue of renowned Kurdish historian, author, and poet Mastoureh Ardalan (1805–1848) in Erbil / Photo by Levi Meir Clancy / Unsplash
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