Fazel Hawramy

He holds an MSc in Middle East Politics from SOAS,  University of London. He covered the ISIS conflict in northern Iraq  including the battle for Mosul from 2014 until 2017 for the Guardian,  Al-Monitor and Hawlati, an independent daily in Iraqi Kurdistan. His  research interests include social, political, and security reform in the  KRG; the micro-politics of conflict; the environmental and social  implications of the Kurdistan oil sector; and KRG-Iran relations. He has  written extensively on the armed clashes between Kurdish opposition  groups and Iranian security forces. Fazel is the author of a forthcoming  book about the origin and development of the Peshmerga and its war with  ISIS, to be published in late 2020. He joined Rudaw English in February  2019.