Pshtewan Kamal Babakir
Babakir is filmmaker, archivist, and translator who works as a primary investigator for Kashkul’s art archive and the liaison for Ismail Khayat, the 2017-2018 artist in residence. He has acted in a theatrical adaptation of Sherko Bekas’ book-length poem Now a Girl is My Homeland. He has directed, produced, cinematographed, and edited documentaries and his Red Land and Not For Sale have been screened in the film festivals around the world. Babakir managed Cinema in SulyOn and started DidiMn, two Kurdish cultural websites in Iraqi Kurdistan. His writings and translations have appeared in World Literature Today, On the Seawall and Loch Raven Review. He graduated from the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani in December 2016 as an IT and Web Development Major with a Minor in English Literature.
Babakir is filmmaker, archivist, and translator who works as a primary investigator for Kashkul’s art archive and the liaison for Ismail Khayat, the 2017-2018 artist in residence. He has acted in a theatrical adaptation of Sherko Bekas’ book-length poem Now a Girl is My Homeland. He has directed, produced, cinematographed, and edited documentaries and his Red Land and Not For Sale have been screened in the film festivals around the world. Babakir managed Cinema in SulyOn and started DidiMn, two Kurdish cultural websites in Iraqi Kurdistan. His writings and translations have appeared in World Literature Today, On the Seawall and Loch Raven Review. He graduated from the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani in December 2016 as an IT and Web Development Major with a Minor in English Literature.
