PhD, International Studies, University of South Australia, Australia, Dissertation Title: The Question of National Identity and the Construction of Iraqi State, GPA: N/A
Masters Degree, International Studies, University of South Australia, Australia, GPA: High Distinction
BSc, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia
Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Aug 2018 – present)
Senior Lecturer, School of International Studies, College of Law, Government and International Studies, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia (May 2013 – Dec 2017)
Research Fellow (concurrent), Institute of Excellence for Jerusalem Studies, UUM
Post-doc Researcher, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia, Australia (Feb 2012 – Feb 2013)
Lecturer (concurrent), College of Law and Politics, University of Salahaddin, Erbil, Iraq (Dec 2010 – Feb 2012)
Tutor, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, University of South Australia, Australia (Aug 2007 – Dec 2010)
(a) Books
Kirmanj, S (2017) Iraqi Identity: Ethnic and Sectarian Conflicts, Sulaimaniya, Iraq: Sardam House for Publishing (612 pages, in Kurdish).
Kirmanj, S (2015) Al-Hawiya wa al-Umma fi al-Iraq (Identity and Nation in Iraq), Beirut and Erbil: Dar al-Saqi and Dar Aras (414 pages, in Arabic), ISBN 9786144257906.
Kirmanj, S (2013) Identity and Nation in Iraq, Boulder, USA: Lynne Rienner (316 pages, in English) ISBN-10: 1588268853.
Kirmanj, S (2005, second edition is forthcoming 2019) Politicisation of Islam; the Phenomenon of Islamism, Sulaimaniya, Iraq: Sardam House for Publishing (256 pages, in Kurdish) ISBN: 0-646-44654-1.
(b) International Refereed Journals
Kirmanj, S & Yaseen Salih (forthcoming 2018) “Perspectives of Iraqis on Federalism and Partition: Developing a Governing Model for Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict in Iraq,” Regional and Federal Studies.
Kirmanj, S & Abdulla K. Sadq (2018) “Iran’s Foreign Policy towards Iraq and Syria: Strategic Significance and Regional Power Balance,” Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, 43 (1-2): 152–172.
Kirmanj, S & Yoosef Abbas Zadeh (2017) “The Para-Diplomacy of the Kurdistan Region in Iraq and the Kurdish Statehood Enterprise,” Middle East Journal, 71 (4): 587-606.
Kirmanj, S & SC Igwe, MAIL Abdullah, KS Fage, I Bello (2017) “An Assessment of the Motivations for the 2011 Nato Intervention in Libya and Its Implications for Africa,” Canadian Social Science, 13 (4): 1-12.
Kirmanj, S & Bashawir Abdul Ghani, Talibu Oladimeji (2016) “The New Great Trek: The Root Causes of the Influx of Refugees from Syria and Iraq to Europe,” ABC Journal of Advanced Research. 5 (2): 91-100.
Kirmanj, S & Shamsul Khan (2015) “Engineering Confederalism for Iraq,” National Identities, 17 (3): 371-385.
Kirmanj, S & Oladimeji, Talibu (2015) “Nigeria’s Multilateral Policy and Regional Order of West Africa in the Post-Cold War International System,” International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences, 5 (7): 682-698.
Kirmanj, S (2014) “Kurdish History Textbooks: Building a Nation-state within a Nation-state,” Middle East Journal, 68 (3): 367-384.
Kirmanj, S (2014) “The Syrian Conflict: Regional Dimensions and Implications,” Journal of International Studies, 10 (1): 57-75.
Kirmanj, S (2013) “Kurdistan Region: A Country Profile,” Journal of International Studies, 9 (1): 145-157.
Kirmanj, S (2008) “Islam, Politics and Government,” Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 9 ( 1): 43-59.
Kirmanj, S (2008) “The Relationship between Traditional and Contemporary Islamist Political Thought,” Middle East Review of International Affairs, 12 (1): 69-82.
(c) Book Chapters
Kirmanj, S (forthcoming 2018) “Ambedkar’s Vision of Secular World: Lessons from Iraq’s national disintegration to India,” in The Emerging Knowledge Society in 21st Century, ed., Prof. Ripu Sudan Singh, New Delhi: Primus Books.
Kirmanj, S & Aziz, Sardar (2018) “Iran’s Regional Hegemony and Kurdish Independence,” in Federalism, Secession and the International Regime of Recognition: Iraqi Kurdistan at a Crossroads. London: Routledge.
Kirmanj, S (2017) “National Identity, Self-images and Picturing the Other in History School Textbooks of the Kurdistan Regional Government,” in Multiple Alterities: Views of Others in Textbooks of the Middle East, eds. Podeh, Elie & Samira Alayan, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kirmanj, S (2014) “Kurdish Integration in Iraq: The Paradoxes of Nation Formation and Nation Building,” in Kurdish Awakening: Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland, ed. Ofra Bengio, Houston: University of Texas Press.
Kirmanj, S (2010) “The Clash of Identities in Iraq,” in Iraq between Occupations: Perspectives from 1920 to the Present, eds. A. Baram, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kirmanj, S (2009) “Challenging the Islamist Politicisation of Islam: The Non-Islamic Origins of Muslim Political Concepts,” in Political Islam, ed. Joseph Morrison Skelly, Westport, USA: Praeger Security International
