Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel

Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel is a writer and analyst whose primary focus and

expertise is on the Kurds, Iraq, Turkey and Middle Eastern current affairs.

His work has previously appeared in, among others, the BBC News Service,

Asharq al-Awsat, the Washington Examiner, the Asian Times, Rudaw, the

Kurdish Globe, the Epoch Times, al-Arabiya, and the Lebanese Daily Star. His

work has been republished extensively on the Internet. Bashdar

currently writes for Rudaw (a Kurdish newspaper based in Iraqi Kurdistan

that also publishes in English) and the Kurdish Globe (a weekly English

language newspaper printed in Iraqi Kurdistan) in addition to various

freelance assignments.