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Nawzad Jamal Hama Faraj serves as an Assistant Professor and lecturer at the Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research. He earned a PhD in Modern Philosophy with a specialization in German Philosophy. In this role, he teaches courses including Analytic Philosophy, supervises master’s students at the Kurdistan Institution for Strategic Studies and Scientific Research and the University of Salahaddin in Erbil, and pursues research across metaphysics, epistemology, post-human philosophy, philosophy of religion, and politics and social philosophy. He has authored 21 books, published 15 articles, and presented 3 conference papers on topics such as the dialectics of enlightenment, the theology of optimism in Leibniz’s philosophical theodicies, and the problem of religion in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.
His scholarly output includes recent works from 2026 on the dialectics of enlightenment and its discontents, 2024 publications addressing philosophical inquiries into evil in Kurdish literature and the philosophical foundations of futurology, and earlier contributions from 2023 and prior years examining Kantian critique, Feuerbach in Marxism, and the correlation of religion and ethics in German idealism. Dr. Hama Faraj has participated in academic committees, including those for the International Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum in 2023. His verified professional email is nawzad.hamafaraj@kissr.edu.krd.