Jamal Nebez | |
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Born | 1933 Sulaymaniyah, Kingdom of Iraq |
Occupation | linguist, historian, journalist, translator, teacher, mathematician and writer |
Ethnicity | Kurdish |
Alma mater | University of Baghdad |
Jamal Nebez (Kurdish Cemal Nebez) (born 1933) is a Kurdish linguist and mathematician. He studied Islamic law, philosophy, theology, physics and mathematics of the University of Baghdad in the 1950s. In 1956, he prepared a stenciled script on Algebra and in 1960, succeeded in publishing the first physics book in Kurdish, including a rich glossary of Kurdish terms pertaining to physics and mathematics. He also has translated some literary works, including works of Nikolai Gogol and William Shakespeare into Kurdish.
Jamal Nebez is also political aware. His known for his nationalistic pride, and controversial statements against Turks, Arabs and Persians.
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Parallel to attending the state schools, he had the opportunity to study Islamic law, philosophy and theology. He studied physics and mathematics at the science faculty at the Teachers' Training Faculty of the University of Baghdad in the first half of 1950s. From October 1955 to 1961, Jamal was a secondary school teacher of physics and math. For three years, he taught in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Kirkuk and in Arbil, and for three years in Basrah and Baghdad. In the summer of 1956, Jamal travelled to Syria and Lebanon, where he met many Kurdish intellectuals, poets and writers who worked and published in Kurmanji Kurdish dialect. In the summer of 1957, when he travelled to Iranian Kurdistan and Tehran. In Kermanshah, he met among others the Kurdish writer Fath-Ali Haidari Zebajoui and in Sinne (Sanandaj), he met the famous Kurdish cleric and writer, Ayatollah Mohammed Mardokh-i Kurdistani (1885-1975). They agreed continually to serve the Kurdish language and culture.
In 1962, he left for Europe to pursue his studies in Pedagogy, Iranology, and Islamic studies. He attended the Universities of Munich and Würzburg (1963-1966) and the University of Hamburg (1967-1970). He also studied Political Science, Journalism and Law at the Free University of Berlin (1970-1979). In 1965, while a student in Munich, he jointly founded the National Union of the Kurdish Students in Europe (NUKSE) with his partisan friends Brusk Ibrahim and Latif Ali. In 1985, he and other emigrants from Kurdistan, academics, scientists, literates and artists founded the Kurdish Academy of Science and Arts, based in Stockholm.
In the 1970s and at the beginning of the 1980s Jemal held the following positions:
Nebez wrote many essays in Arab newspapers in Baghdad about the political, social and human rights of the Kurds. One of these publications, in spring 1954, was a critical article published in „Sawt al-Ahali“(voice of the population) on a press-interview given by Celal Bayar, then expresident of Turkey, during a sojourn in the United States, in which Bayar denied the existence of any other people but Turks in Turkey. During the two years he had taught in Kirkuk, he created the basis for the first physics and mathematics books in the Kurdish language. In 1956, he prepared a stencilized script on Algebra and in 1960, succeeded in publishing the first physics book in Kurdish under the title, "Introduction into the Mechanics and Properties of Matter", including a rich glossary of Kurdish terms pertaining to physics and mathematics. In the course of his sojourn in Damascus, he managed to write a booklet in Arabic on "The Kurdish Freedom Movement and its Aims" in 1957. He published another book in the same year, titled "Kurdish in Latin Script", in Baghdad. He has published many books on Kurdish language and he also translated some literary works, including works of Gogol and Shakespeare into Kurdish.
A Glimpse at Jemal Nebez’ Life, p.69.
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