Hiwa Osman is an Iraqi Kurdish journalist and commentator.
He is a leading commentator and analyst on the politics and media of Kurdistan and Iraq.
His writings are also published in Arabic in the respected Baghdad-based newspaper Alaalem.
[1] Hiwa Osman is the CEO of mediawan.me [2] The first agency of its kind in Kurdistan Region that provides media, which later rebranded to Mediazan.org[3] which is the parent organization behind Iraqi news outlet +964 Media[4] creative and communications services.
Osman was previously the Iraq Country Director for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), media advisor to Iraqi president Jalal Talabani and also worked as a writer and producer with BBC News.