Nawaf Ashur Haskan
Nawaf Ashur Haskan
Bio: Nawaf Ashur Haskan is a Yazidi poet, originally from Iraq. While living in the Washington, DC area, he was a research fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy. He is currently an administrative consultant with Youth Bridges, an NGO based in Iraq. In 2016, Nawaf worked as a cultural advisor and translator for RYOT and the Huffington Post. From 2015 to 2016, he served as a business development officer for the International Organization for Migration. Before graduating from the American University of Iraq–Sulaimani (AUIS), he founded several youth-based civic education initiatives in the Sinjar district of Ninewa province, where he sought to strengthen the principles of pluralism through regular workshops in local villages. From 2005 to 2008, he worked as an interpreter for US Troops in Iraq.