Mariwan Kanie (born 1966, Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan) is a Kurdish intellectual, journalist,[1] and political scientist.[2] Since 1993 he lives and works in Netherlands.
Kanie fled Iraq[3] in 1993. He studied at the University of Amsterdam, and completed his PhD in political science in 2010; he teaches in the department of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Jewish studies at the same university.[4]
Four of his books have been published in Kurdistan. He is one of the editorial board members of "Rahand", a Kurdish intellectual magazine. He publishes in the Kurdish newspapers Hawlati and Awena, and in January 2011 was indicted in Iraqi Kurdistan for a column in Awena that criticized president Massoud Barzani.[4] He also regularly publishes in the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw and appears on television in the news commentary programs Nova and Netwerk.