I couldn't have chosen a better work mate than Bwar Nuradin Saber and I am so glad that I pushed to have him employed on the Encyclopedia project.
Bwar hails from the small mountain town of Qaladze and came to Slemani in 1981 to train as a car mechanic at the Sulaymaniyah Technical Institute for Boys, which as it happens is right next door. Schooling was cut short in 1984 when he joined the Peshmerga rebels in the mountains fighting Saddam Hussein. After the Rapareen/Uprising in 1991/1992 he was then caught up in the ugly civil war between KDP and PUK.
But Bwar's great love is his pioneering work, the first Kurdish bibliography and this month the the first volume was published taking in Kurdish books and manuscripts in all dialects up to 1914. The second volume, 1914 to 1940 is 95% finished.
This might make him sound a bit booky, but he is funny, clever and everything interests him, not to mention a passion for football/soccer.
Even better he gives me a ride to work every morning!
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