Curriculum Vitae
Assist. Prof. Dr. Mohammed Hussein Ahmed
Director General- Head of Apparatus of Supervision and Quality Assurance - Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research May 2018-Present
Member of Kurdistan Genocide Recognition Board 2014 to Present
PhD English Linguistics and Pragmatics, 2011
Academic Visitor and PhD Research Scholar, Aston University, UK, 2010
Exchange Faculty, Appalachian State University, NC, USA 2009
MA English Methodology and Applied Linguistics, 2006
BA English Language and Literature, 2000
mohammed.ahmed@mhe-krg.org
009647501023586
009647701254680
-Name: Dr. Mohammed Hussein Ahmed
-Scientific Title: Assistant Professor
-Date of birth: 2/9/1978
-Place of birth: Diwaniya, Iraq
-Sex: Male
-Nationality: Kurd
-Marital status: Married
-Number of children: THREE sons (Dahen, Dahat and Rawen)
-Languages: Kurdish (Native); Arabic, English
Job History:
- December 19th , 2000 to 2004 Teacher/ Garmian Directorate of Education
- December 18th, 2004 Assistant researcher / Sulaimani University
- June 8th, 2006 Assistant instructor/ Sulaimani University
- March 14th , 2009 Exchange Faculty / Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA
- October 1st, 2010 Academic Visitor/ Aston University-Birmingham, UK
- June 14th, 2011 Instructor/ Sulaimani University
- July 1st, 2011 Instructor / Garmian University
- August, 2014 Legal Translator/ Interpreter
- September 1st, 2015 Office for the Minister of Higher Education
- International Relations Officer for Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research May, 2016 to May, 2018
- January 14th,2018 Assistant Professor
-Certifications:
- BA English language and literature- College of Arts/ Salahadeen University/ 1996-2000
- MA English Methodology and Applied Linguistics- College of Education/ Diyala University / 2003-2006- (Learning Copula by Iraqi Arabic and Kurdish Speakers of English as a Foreign Language)
- PhD English Linguistics and Pragmatics -College of Education/ Sulaimani University/ 2011/ (A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected English and Kurdish Criminal Investigation Texts)
-Date and title of first employment: 19-12-2000 Ministry of Education
-Date and title of first employment in the university: 18-12-2004 Ministry of Higher Education
-Scientific degree: Assistant Professor
-Current job location: Head of Apparatus of Supervision and Quality Assurance
-Email Address: mohammed.ahmed@mhe-krg.org , m.university78@gmail.com
-Phone Number: 009647501023586-009647701254680
-Work experiences:
1-1998 Editorial staff in Twilight periodical newspaper-college of Arts- Salahadeen University
2-2000 Editorial staff in College Post periodical newspaper- college of Arts- Salahadeen University
3-2000 Teaching English at UNHCR in Hawler
4- 2004 English Teacher in intermediate and preparatory schools / Garmian directorate of Education / Ministry of Education
5-2007 Delivering tens of courses for learning English language for different establishments and organizations
6-2004-2011 University Instructor at Sulaimani University
7-2005-2007 College administrator-College of Education
8-2005-2007 Student Affairs Manager –College of Education
8-12/11/2006-23/11/2006 Acting dean of the college of Education
9-28/2/2007-9/3/2007 Acting dean of the college of Education
10-2007-2014 Head of English Department-Morning Classes
11-2008- 2010 Member of TESOL-USA
12-2009-2013 Member of Kurdistan Academics Association
13-2011-present Member of TESOL-Iraq
14-2012-2013 Editorial Board member of Journal of Garmian University for Scientific Researches
15- 2012 Member of Higher Committee in the national campaign to combat violence against women in the MHE-KRG.
16- 2013 Representative of Garmian University at Garmian Administration for Anfal Activities
17-2013 Director of the Advanced English Language Course-Garmian University
18-2013 Member of Higher Committee in the national campaign to combat violence against women in the MHE-KRG.
19-2013- 2015 Head of English Department-Evening classes School of Basic Education-Faculty of Education-University of Garmian
20- 2014 Reviewer at the Canadian Center for Science and Education in the Journal of English Language and Literature Studies
21-2015-2018 Minister’s office- International Relations Officer Ministry of Higher Education
22-2018-present Head of Apparatus of Supervision and Quality Assurance
-Seminars:
1-21-2-2005 delivering a seminar in the College of Education entitled:
(Difficulties faced by the students at English department to speak in the target language)
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- delivering a seminar in the public library in KALAR entitled: (Halabja and Anfal )
3-2009 delivering a seminar at ASU in USA entitled: (Halabja tragedies)
4-23-4-2009 delivering a seminar at ASU in USA entitled: (Anfal and Genocide of Kurdish nation)
5-28-4-2009 delivering a seminar at Hickory College, NC in USA entitled: (Genocide against Kurds)
6-3/3/2011 delivering a seminar in the college of education, Kalar entitled (Gricean maxims and their roles in conversation)
7-12/3/2011delivering a seminar in the college of education, Kalar entitled (Ten weeks at ASU, higher education in USA)
8-19/3/2011delivering a seminar in the college of education, Kalar entitled (How to improve your English Language?)
9-22-9-2011 delivering a seminar about (The role of the scientific debate in the classroom) at University of Garmian
10-5/10/2011 delivering a seminar about (How to write a good essay) at University of Garmian
11-6/10/2011 delivering a seminar about (Children's Literature) at University of Garmian
12-8/10/2011 delivering a seminar about (Code Switching in English Language) at University of Garmian
13-9/10/2011 delivering a seminar about (Forensic Linguistics) at University of Garmian
14-26\2\2012 delivering a seminar about (History of the Language) at University of Garmian
15- 7\3\2012 delivering a seminar about (Human Language and Animals) at University of Garmian
16-9/9/ 2012delivering a seminar about (Types of Varieties and variation) at University of Garmian
17-10/9/2012 delivering a seminar about (Register, genre and style) at University of Garmian
18-11/9/2-12delivering a seminar about (Politeness and Face) at University of Garmian
19-12/9/2012delivering a seminar about (Meaning and Intention) at University of Garmian
20-13/9/2012delivering a seminar about (Methods, approaches and researches in Linguistics) at University of Garmian
21-15/9/2012delivering a seminar about (Speech Acts) at University of Garmian
22-16/9/2012delivering a seminar about (Gricean Maxims) at University of Garmian
23-19/9/2012delivering a seminar about (Information Structures) at University of Garmian
24-3/2/2013delivering a seminar about (Metaphor in Linguistics) at University of Garmian
25-4/2/2013delivering a seminar about (Words and Meanings) at University of Garmian
26-10/2/2013 delivering a seminar about (Anfal and the Kurdish Genocide) at The youth and Sports Hall
27-18/4/2013 delivering a seminar about (Swearing in English Linguistics) at University of Garmian
28-16/1/2014 delivering a seminar about (Writing a good essay) at University of Human Development
29-17/2/2014 delivering a seminar about (The language and the literature) at University of Garmian
30-18/2/2014 delivering a seminar about (Corpus linguistics) at University of Garmian
31-19/2/2014 delivering a seminar about (Anthropology) at University of Germian
32-23/2/2014 delivering a seminar about (Theoretical grammar of the English language) at University of Garmian
33-24/2/2014 delivering a seminar about (The language of advertising) at University of Garmian
34-25/2/2014 delivering a seminar about (Language Testing) at University of Garmian
35-2/3/2014 delivering a seminar about (Language and linguistic philology) at University of Garmian
36-3/3/2014 delivering a seminar about (Prescriptive and Descriptive Linguistics) at University of Garmian
37-4/3/2014 delivering a seminar about (Language: Logic and meaning) at University of Garmian
-Courses:
1-2002 participating in a special training course for English teachers held by ministry of education for two months
2-2007 participating in a special training course about methodology held by Garnet Education and supervised by Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Researches
3-2008 participating in a Methodology Course at the college of education-Kalar between 10-25-10-2008
4-2009 participating in a special course about leadership and administration at ASU in North Carolina, USA
5-2009 participating in a special workshop for designing curriculum in the region
5-2010 participating in a special course about training the trainers initiative at USA embassy in Baghdad
6-2011 participating in a three month course about Forensic linguistics at Aston, Birmingham, UK.
7-2011 participating in a special course about the scientific debate by the Ministry of Higher education and scientific debate in the University of Garmian
8-2013 Opening an English Language Advanced Course at the University of Garmian for applicants of Higher Studies lasted for two months
9-2014 Opening an English Language Advanced Course at the University of Garmian for applicants of Higher Studies lasted for two months
10-2015 Participating in a special course about International humanitarian and criminal law by ICRC in Kenya
11- 2015 Participating in a special course about Medical Forensics in Coimbra/ Portugal
12- 2018 Participating in a special course about Investigation in Crimes in Jan, 2019 Amman, Jorden
13-2018 Participating in Saint Hill Annual Meeting in London in May, 2018
14-2018 Participating in a workshop about ‘Development National Biosecurity Curriculum Plan Academic Institutions in Iraq by CRDF Global, Baghdad 12-13, December, 2018
15-2018 Participating with the delegation in meeting Cypriot universities in July, 2018 in Cyprus
16-2018 Participating in Annual meeting of Association of Arab Universities in Erbil in August, 2018
17-2018 Participating in a High level meeting with the officials of QAA in November, 2018 in Gloucester, UK.
18-2019 Participating in a workshop about ‘ Curricular Reforms for Internationalization Classroom’ Gottingen, Germany 19-21 February, 2019
19-2019 Participating with the delegation in meeting Turkish universities in March, 2019 in Turkey
20- 2019 Participating with the delegation in meeting Cypriot universities in March, 2019 in Cyprus
21- 2019 Participating in the World Bank Annul meeting in Erbil in April, 2019.
22-2019 Participating in a workshop about ‘Strategy Development, Change Management and Internationalization of Doctoral Training & TIGRIS
Consortium Meeting in June, 2019 in Brno, Czech
23-2019 Participating with the High delegation from Ministry of Martyrs in meeting about Genocide in May, 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.
24- 2019 Participating in Kurdistan NMBC meeting in Antalya in Turkey in July, 2019.
25-2019 Participating in Annual Dissemination Conference of Erasmus + TIGRIS project, Sulaimani 6-7/10/2019
26- 2019 Participating in the strategic meeting with the officials at Waltham International College, in October, 2019 in London.
27-2019 Participating in a workshop about SDG by the Ministry of Planning and UNDP in Erbil for three days in Dec, 2019.
-Conferences:
1-2005 Member of International Conference of Referendum in Kurdistan-Sulaimani
2-2007 Member of International Conference of Higher Education / Erbil
3- 2008 Member of International Conference of Genocide against Kurds/ Erbil
4- 2008 Member of International Conference of Mass Graves/Najaf
5- 2008 Member of International Conference about Developing English Language / US Embassy- Baghdad
6-2009 Member of PhD Students Symposium at Appalachian State University-North Carolina\ USA.
7-2010 Member of C.H.A.K First Conference, Sulaimani, August, 2010.
8-2010 Member of International conference about Not so different? Diverse societies, common challenges, at Lakeside Conference Center, Aston University, Birmingham , UK.
9-2011 Founding member of International conference of TESOL-Iraq/ Baghdad
10-2012 Member of 3rd International Visible Conference on New Trends in Education, Ishik University, Erbil.
11-2012 Member of International Conference of Arts and Science, Aix-en-Provence, France.
12-2012 Member of International Conference of Higher Education, Diyala University-Iraq
13-2012 Member of 2nd Scientific World Kurdish Congress- Erbil, Kurdistan-Iraq 11-15-10-2012
14-2012 Member of C.H.A.K Second conference, Sulaimani, 24-11-2012
15-2012 Member of the National Campaign to Combat Violence Against Women, Erbil, 26-11-2012
16-2012 Member of the International Conference of Arts and Sciences, Gottenheim, Germany, 2-7\12-2012 (Christmas Conference (Germany, Switzerland and France)
17- 2012 Member of the International Conference of Higher Education- Kurdistan University-Hawler 18-20-2-2012
18-2013 Member of the first scientific Conference of Garmian University- Garmian 18-4-2013
19-2013 Member of International Conference of Arts and Science, Aix-en-Provence, France.
20-2013 Member of International Conference of Arts and Science, Florence, Italy.
21- 2013 Member of the National Campaign to Combat Violence Against Women, Erbil, 25-11-2013
22- 2014 Member of the First International Conference, Faculty of Human Sciences and Physical Education, Garmian University
23- 2015 Member of International conference of Armenian Genocide in Baghdad
24-2015 Member of Peace and coexistence conference in Lalish
25-2015 Member of International conference of genocide against ethnic and religious minorities in Erbil
26-2018 Member of International Forum on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in Dubai, UAE.
27- 2018 Member of International conference of Genocide at UK parliament in November, 2018 in London.
28- 2018 Member of International Conference of Gender at Bristol University in December, 2018 in UK.
28-2019 Member of Spark Annual Conference in Netherlands in November, 2019.
Researches:
1-Bapir, Mohammed H Ahmed (2008) The use of distance education in Kurdistan. International Conference on Higher Education in Iraq. Erbil: Iraq. 99-112
2-Bapir, Mohammed H Ahmed (2008) Genocide: the greatest crime. International Conference on Genocide Against the Kurdish People. Erbil: Iraq. 41-57
3-بابير, محمد حسين احمد (2008) الابادة جماعية : جريمة كبرى , مؤتمر الثاني للمقابر الجماعية في العراق, نجف , العراق.
4-Bapir, Mohammed H Ahmed (2008) The Role of Kurdish Universities in Bridging Civilizations. International Conference about Higher Education in Malaysia. Malaysia.
5-Bapir, Mohammed H Ahmed (2008) Investigating the Performance of Kurdish Learners of EFL in the Area of Illocutionary Speech Acts. Journal of Al-Fatih. Diyala: Iraq. 47-73
6-Bapir, Mohammed H Ahmed (2008) Investigating Coherence in the Performance of English Department Students. Journal of Diyala. Diyala:Iraq. 858- 875
7-Ahmed, Mohammed Hussein (2012) The Use of L1 in Teaching L2 Classrooms, Ishik University, Erbil, Iraq.
8-Bapir, Mohammed Hussein Ahmed and Al-Janabi, Sahima Abdulsalam Bdaiwi (2014) A Pragmatic Study of Politeness Strategies in English Doctor-Patient. Journal of Garmian University, No. 4, p.23-60.
9-Bapir, Mohammed Hussein Ahmed (2018) A Contrastive Study of Hedging in English and Kurdish Editorials. Proceedings for the International Conference of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Jan, 1-3, 2018, Dubai, UAE.
10- Ahmed, Mohammed Hussein (2018) Code-switching in English and Kurdish SMS Text Massages, Journal of Languages and Arts. Tikret University. (2018)
Subjects taught:
1st year: Grammar, Conversation, Vocabulary and Comprehension, Pronunciation, Composition, Scientific Debates
2nd year: Grammar, Conversation, Comprehension, Essay Writing, Phonology
3rd year: Grammar, Conversation, Methodology and Curriculum, Translation, Syntax, Morphology, Linguistics,
4th year: Methods of Research, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Testing, Translation.
Worked an interpreter for:
1-2004 Public Referendum Meeting/ Khanaqeen
2-2010 Third Conference for PUK-Sulaimani,Kurdistan
3-2011 Second International Festival of Folk Art in
Kurdistan/ Sherwana Castle-Kalar
4-2013 First International Short Film Festival-Kalar 16-21/6/2013
5-2014 International Court for Crimes/ The president, Hague 20/10/2014
6-2015 Medical Forensic course in Coimbra, Portugal
Linguistics Evaluator for:
1-Mohammed Hasan Fatah 7-10-2007 entitled:
(A bacteriological study on sulfur oxidizing bacteria Acidithiobacilus thiooxidans isolated from Awasepi Sulfide Water) MSc Thesis / University of Sulaimani
2-Salar Ibrahem Ali 24-12-2007 entitled:
(Seroprevalence of Toxoplasmasis among aborted Women in Kalar Town)
Msc Thesis / University of Sulaimani
3- Sirwan Aziz Akbar 31-8-2008 entitled:
(A study of Diarrheagenic Eschrichia Coli isolated from Children in Kalar)
MSc Thesis/ University of Sulaimani
4-Paiwand Faeq 7-9-2011 entitled:
(A physiological study of cell shape profile of Campylobacter spp) MSc Thesis/ University of Sulaimani
5-Evaluator for the papers at First scientific conference at Garmian University 2013
6-Evaluater for the paper in Sulaimani Magazine (B) 2013
Chairman of the committee for giving scientific titles for:
1-Salar Mahmoud Hama salah 4-1-2012 English Literature and Linguistics –India
2-Sara Najeeb Wahab 31-1-2012 English Literature and Linguistics –India
3-Muqdad Nori Azizi 31-3-2013 English Literature and Linguistics-India
4-Abas Mohammed Salah 20-1-2014 Applied Linguistics, Liverpool, UK
5-Sherko Habib Bismar 27-1-2014 English Linguistics, India .
5-Ayad Sabir Raza 29-1-2014 English Linguistics, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq
Members of MA committee debate
1-Ali Yousif Mahmood Albarodi 9-7-2012 entitled (Politeness Maxims and Conflict Avoidance in Translating Arabic Political Televised Debates into English) Translation Department, College of Arts, University of Mosul.
2-Ashraf Abdol-Razaq Saeed 18-10-2012 entitled ( The Role of Visual Effects in Translating English Scientific Texts into Arabic) Translation Department, College of Arts, University of Mosul.
3-Amera Mohamed Abdullah 6-7-2013 entitled (An assessment of Students' Performance in Translation at Salahadeen University) English Department, College of Languages, University of Salahadeen
4-Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud 12-01-2014 entitled (Back-Translation: A Strategy for Translation Quality Assessment )Translation Department, College of Arts, University of Mosul.
5-Hamza Yousif Omar 12-01-2020 entitled (Evaluating the use of EFL classes at secondary schools in Dohuk City) English department, college of Humanities, University of Dohuk
Head of Committees in:
1-2005 Anfal Ceremony at College of Education-Kalar 14-4-2005
2-2006 Anfal Ceremony at College of Education-Kalar 14-4-2006
3-2007 Anfal Ceremony at College of Education-Kalar 14-4-2007
4-2008 Anfal Ceremony at College of Education-Kalar 14-4-2008
5-2010 Laying the Foundation Stone for Garmian University 14\4\2010
6-2012 First Festival of Anfal- Garmian University-Kalar 9-10\4\2012
7-2012 Activities against violence against women, Garmian University
8-2013 Head of Translators Committee at First International Short Film Festival 16-21/6/2013
9-2018-Present Supervising ISO project implementation at Ministry of Higher Education
10-2019 – Present Supervising all Language centers at Universities
11-2019- Present Head of Bologna Process committee for setting the strategies for the Ministry of Higher Education
Letters of Appreciations:
- 7/3/18615 on 19/12/2009 Ministry of Higher Education
- 1836 on 15/5/2012 Garmian University
- 2792 on 22/7/2012 Garmian University
- 2337 on 28/5/2013 Garmian University
- 2674 on 17/6/2013 Higher Committee of Women Affairs+ University of Garmian
- 3685 on 26/8/2013 Garmian University
- 5942 on 19/11/2013 Garmian University
- 308 on 21/1/2014 Garmian University
- 696 on 10/2/2014 Garmian University
- 1/15/2132 on 9/3/214 Ministry of Culture and Arts + 7179 in 14/4/2014 Ministry of Higher Education
- 2377 on 18/5/2014 Garmian university
- 2715 on 4/6/2014 Higher Committee of Women Affairs+ University of Garmian
- 3006 on 22/6/2014 Ministry of Higher Education
- 1215 on 29-03-2015 Garmian University
- 193 on 27-12-2018 Ministry of Martyrs
- 1496 on 30-1-2019 Ministry of Higher Education
- 594 on 9-4-2019 Ministry of Martyrs-Baghdad
- On 22-4-2019 Ministry of Higher Education-Iraq
- 10153 on 9-7-2019 Ministry of Higher Education
- 3306 on 16-7-2019 Ministry of Martyrs
- 1564 on 24-9-2019 Ministry of Higher Education
- 3026 on 21-8-2017 Garmian University
- 17671 on 28-10-2019 ministry of higher education
- 1944 on 19-11-2019 ministry of higher education
- 1993 on 3-12-2019 ministry of higher education
- 1/17/194 on 12-1-2020 Ministry of Culture