[2] Hardi fled Iraq along with her family in the late 1980s and was granted asylum in the UK in 1993.

Her articles have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation[4][5] She is a former chairperson of Exiled Writers Ink!

and has organized creative writing workshops for the British Council in the UK, Belgium, Czech Republic and India.

In 2014, she moved back to her home city of Sulaimani to take up a post at the American University of Iraq, becoming chair of the Department of English in 2015.

In 2015, she found Center for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS) at The American University of Iraq, Sulaimani.