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Yadgar Fayeq Saeed( born in 1983 in Kalar, Iraq) is a university lecturer, journalist and television presenter in Southern Kurdistan. In the past 12 years he produced and presented more than 1200 TV program for both NRT and Kurdistan24.

Primary Life and Education
He was Born in Kalar in 1983, although none of his parents were educated, they insisted on Yadgar and his brothers and sisters' to complete their studies. From grades 1st to 6th grades in primary school he studied in (Layla Qasim), (Bawashaswar) and (Bekas) schools, and in

secondary school he studied in (Peshkawtn) school, for his high-school he graduated from (Shahid Aram) High School in Kalar. He then went to Sulaymaniyah to

Study his undergraduate studies, he started studying at the University of Sulaymaniyah, college of languages, English department. For the four years of his undergraduate studies He ranked as one of the top students at his department, so he decided to study his Master’s degree.

Right after his graduation from the English language department (2007-2008) he started teaching at the University of Sulaymaniyah, English language department in the evening classes he taught Translation Lecture and in the same year has taught (Media in English Language) at the Technical Institute – the Journalism Department.

In 2013, he got his master's degree in English literature, and his research was about the concept of "anti-hero" in two plays called “Death Of Salesman by Arthur Miller” and the “Emperor Jones” play by Eugene O'NEill”. In 2013, he was established as a lecturer at Chamchamal College of Education, University of Sulaymaniyah, later the name was changed to Charmo University, and he still continues to work as a lecturer in the University's English department. [2]

In 2015, he established (Think big group) at Charmo University and has organized several weekly events, in addition to issuing a seasonal journal called (Student Voice). The group worked on many events like The great English writer (William Shakespeare Week) also on 16 days activism against violence against women, they organized (Women rights are human rights) event.

Media Life - Journalism life
The beginning of Yadgar Fayaq's journalism work dates back to 2001, when he started translating between Kurdish, Arabic and English and published his articles and translations in the newspapers at that time. At the University of Sulaymaniyah, English Department he was one of the staff members for preparing and publishing a monthly paper called "Darwaza" which was published in English and Kurdish

In 2007, he started working at Gali Kurdistan Channel, first as a news editor, then becomes the head of the channel's translation and linguistics department, he also worked as a direct translator on the channel's communications for a while. Between 2006 and 2010, he translated a number of research essays for the German (Real Understanding) magazine, and on (Kurdistani nwe) newspaper, he also worked at other newspapers and websites and translated more than 100 articles from Arabic and English to Kurdish. He was in charge of the communications department for a short time at the Kurdistan Survey Center of Wsha company and resigned when the department decomposed at Wsha company.

In 2010, he started working at NRT, first he started working as editor-in-chief of the news, then becomes head of the (Newsroom) department, and in April 2011, he presented his first program, "Tawtwe". Later, in 2016, he worked as an news editor, presenter and anchor, and

in addition to a significant number of interviews, he presented a number of different programsl, including 161 episodes of "tawtwe" in the program, 52 episodes of "ba krawayi", 125 episodes "du jar bir bkarawa"(Think Twice) TV program.

In early 2016, he resigned from NRT. In April of the same year, he started working as a producer and presenter on The Kurdistan 24 Channel, During his work at the channel, he worked on “wena gawraka” program, "Basi rozh" and (Pasy Yadgar), and he has performed a number of programs and debates in Kurdish, Arabic and English, Persian.

Yadgar now has an agreement with Sulaymaniyah governorate to produce (YadiTalk) podcast which is owned by yadgar fayaq, to highlight the well-known figures of Sulaymaniyah city and Kurdistan through his podcast (YadiTalk) the aim is to record their history and achievements through voice, and then broadcast them to the public.

Translations for Kurdish

 * Yadgar Fayaq has translated several English literary programs including:


 * Hard Times novel, written by Charles Deakins,, 2007


 * Dila Azake, The Brave Heart (dla azaka), 2007 "Preventing Conflict Over Kurdistan", Henry J. Barkey, 2009.