Hewa Khalid

Dr. Hewa S. Khalid is a visiting lecturer and Kurdish language textbook developer at Indiana University. He works in the field of Kurdish language and Kurdish studies. His research focuses on Kurdish language, Kurdish dialects and the language policies of the Middle East. He has studied and taught in multiple countries and regions including Kurdistan Region - Iraq, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (Rojava), the Kurdish regions in Turkey, the United Kingdom and United States. He is the author of numerous books and journal articles on Kurdish pedagogy, the politics of the Kurdish language, and Kurdish ethnic and cultural studies, notably, Hinker, a Sorani Kurdish textbook produced through the Kurdish Institute in Istanbul and Koya University. His most recent book chapter with a group of researchers, titled Teaching and learning Kurdish in Kurdistan: Achievements and Challenges, will be published soon as a part of Oxford University Handbook for Kurdish Linguistics. At present, he is working on the Level 2 Central Kurdish textbook language teaching with CeLCAR at Indiana University. He is also engaged with a group of researchers in a research project titled Landscape, Health, and Belonging: Cultivating Kurdish Community in Nashville, Tennessee. He holds a PhD in Kurdish Language and Culture from the Social Sciences Institute at Dicle University, an MA in Kurdish Studies from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, and a BA from the Department of Kurdish Language and Literature at Koya University. His languages include Central Kurdish (Sorani), Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), English and Persian. He is actively learning Arabic.