Jamal Nebez - Schooling

Schooling

Parallel to attending the state schools, he had the opportunity to study Islamic law, philosophy and theology. He studied physics and mathematics at the science faculty at the Teachers' Training Faculty of the University of Baghdad in the first half of 1950s. From October 1955 to 1961, Jamal was a secondary school teacher of physics and math. For three years, he taught in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Kirkuk and in Arbil, and for three years in Basrah and Baghdad. In the summer of 1956, Jamal travelled to Syria and Lebanon, where he met many Kurdish intellectuals, poets and writers who worked and published in Kurmanji Kurdish dialect. In the summer of 1957, when he travelled to Iranian Kurdistan and Tehran. In Kermanshah, he met among others the Kurdish writer Fath-Ali Haidari Zebajoui and in Sinne (Sanandaj), he met the famous Kurdish cleric and writer, Ayatollah Mohammed Mardokh-i Kurdistani (1885-1975). They agreed continually to serve the Kurdish language and culture.

In 1962, he left for Europe to pursue his studies in Pedagogy, Iranology, and Islamic studies. He attended the Universities of Munich and Würzburg (1963-1966) and the University of Hamburg (1967-1970). He also studied Political Science, Journalism and Law at the Free University of Berlin (1970-1979). In 1965, while a student in Munich, he jointly founded the National Union of the Kurdish Students in Europe (NUKSE) with his partisan friends Brusk Ibrahim and Latif Ali. In 1985, he and other emigrants from Kurdistan, academics, scientists, literates and artists founded the Kurdish Academy of Science and Arts, based in Stockholm.

In the 1970s and at the beginning of the 1980s Jemal held the following positions:

1. 1971-72 Lecturer, Free University of Berlin, Ethnological Institute.
2. 1971-78 Lecturer, Free University of Berlin, Institute for Iranian Philology.
3. 1972-76 Scientific Employee in the field of Orientalistics at Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(German Research Foundation)
4. 1978-82 Assistant Professor, Islamic Iran, Persian and other Iranian languages, Free University of Berlin.
5. 1978–83 Examiner of Persian language translators and interpreters in Berlin (Staatliches Institut für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer) and Examiner of Kurdish language translators and interpreters in Munich (Bavarian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture).