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Lolav M. Hassan Alhamid
Lolav Alhamid is an Assistant Lecturer in the School of English at the University of Kent, UK. She was awarded a BA in English Literature in 2003 and an MA in Modern Novel in 2007 both from the University of Duhok in the Kurdistan Regional Government/Iraq. She was awarded a Ph.D. degree in English Literature in 2017 from the University of Kent, UK. She was an Assistant Lecturer and then a Lecturer in the English Department in the School of Arts in the University of Duhok (KRG) from 2017 until 2013 when she started her Ph.D. studies in the UK. Her research engages with postcolonial theory in relation to diverse philosophical and spiritual traditions, literary and political uses of language, and cross-cultural articulations of gender and sexuality. Her professional interents focus on Kurdish political histroy, cultural and gender studies and Kurdish literary experience particularly in Iraq and her current projects primarily concern Kurdish novelistic discourse with a special focus on the represenation of Kurdish women and gender politics. She has a special interest in the study of the current moment in the history of Kurdistan and the rise of political conflicts and terrorism.