Ferhad Shakely

Ferhad Shakely (born 1951) is a prominent Kurdish writer, poet and researcher.

He joined the Kurdish national movement under the leadership of Mustafa Barzany in 1974 and went to Syria in 1975.

Moreover, he published a literary Kurdish magazine, Mamosta-y Kurd (31 issues) between 1985 and 1996.

In 1992, he published Kurdish nationalism in Mam and Zin of Ahmad Khani, a literary history that was translated into Swedish, Turkish and Arabic.

Many of his poems have been translated into Persian, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish, English, French, Italian, Icelandic and Danish.