Hewa Khalid

Pronouns:

he/him

Email:

hekhalid@iu.edu

Department:

Central Eurasian Studies

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Biography

Dr. Hewa S. Khalid is a Visiting Lecturer, specializing in Central/Sorani and Northern/Kurmanji Kurdish language development and instruction, specifically Kurdish language pedagogy, dialectal variation, language contact, and the sociopolitical dimensions of Kurdish language use.Dr. Khalid has taught and conducted research across various regions, including the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Rojava (Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria), Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Dr. Khalid is CeLCAR's current Kurdish Language Developer, and is working on Sorani Kurdish: An intermediate textbook.

To read more about Dr. Khalid's education, experience, and qualifications, please visit his IU CEUS Profile. 

Education

PhD, Social Sciences Institute, Dicle University, 2019.

MA, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 2013.

BA, Department of Kurdish Language and Literature, Koya University, 2009.

Research Interests

Kurdish studies; Language teaching; Language curriculm; Geographical dialects; Language contact; Kurdish language grammar