Professor Jamal Nabaz, the well-known Kurdish author, linguist, scholar, and academic figure is one of the Kajik founders.
He was born in 1933 in Suleimani. He studied physics and mathematics at Baghdad University at the same time as studying Islamic sciences. He was a university professor at Kirkuk, Hawler (Erbil), Baghdad, and Basra universities. In 1962 he continued his education in Munich and Augsburg universities in Islamic and Iranian studies.
From 1967 to 1970 when he was a university student at Hamburg University, Jamal Nabaz established the National Unity of Kurdish Students along with some of his friends, and later during 1970 to 1979 he received his Ph.D. degree in Political Sciences, Journalism and Law in Berlin.
He is also one of the founders of Kajik Society (the Freedom and Reviving Society and Kurdish Unity) which was established based on the Kurdish Socialism School in 1959 in the South part of Kurdistan, and Kamil Jir, Ahmad Hardi, and Fayeq Aref were among this society's prominent members.
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Jamal Nabaz's works:
The story of "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare, translated by Jamal Nabaz in 1955
Lalo Karim, a Kurdish novel in 1986 in Hawler
Education in the Kurdish language in 1987
Latin alphabet for writing Kurdish
Translation is an art, Jin Publication
Translating "The Coat" by the famous writer Nicolai Gogol
The Basics of Mechanics and Material
The Unified Kurdish Language, 1979
Some of the fundamental problems in Kurdish Socialism school in 2001
My days of homelessness, in Swiss
The Backgrounds and Results of Kajik in 2015
It is worth mentioning that the last work of Professor Jamal Nabaz is a book called "The Memories of those days that will never return" published in two volumes in Suleimani.
Professor Jamal Nabaz wrote a letter to the famous philosopher Bertrand Russel in 1963 during the September Revolution and he discussed all the oppression that was conducted against the Kurds by the Iraqi government and the neighboring countries' governments that were committed against all parts of Kurdistan. In that letter, Nabaz asked Russel to echo the Kurds' voice and cry for help to the world. Russel wrote the following letter to Nabaz in response:
The great philosopher, Bertrand Russel's letter to Dr. Jamal Nabaz:
From Bertrand Russel to Dr. Jamal Nabaz
July 5, 1963
Dear Jamal Nabaz
I appreciate your letter that I received on June 25th. I am highly concerned with the cruel and brutal actions of the Iraqi government against your nation and all those who are their opponents. I am aware of all the torturing sorrows and pains that the Kurdish nation is facing in all those countries that you mentioned.
Undoubtedly, I will do my best to inform and point out all the cruelty and oppression committed against your nation to reach those who care about it. I would appreciate it if you could inform me of any possible war affair that would happen in Kurdistan.
I hope that in the short future, I will be able to send some representatives and agents to Iraq to research this country's circumstances directly.
Respectfully
Bertrand Russel
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This letter shows that how hard Jamal Nabaz attempted to inform the world and the famous figures about the Kurdish issue in a century of oppression and difficulties.
Professor Jamal Nabaz, the skillful Kurdish writer died on December 8th, 2018 at the age of 85 in Germany.
