Abdulla Pashew
Abdulla Pashew (Kurdish: عەبدوڵا پەشێو, romanized: Ebdulla Peşêw) is a Kurdish poet. He was born in 1946 in Hewlêr, southern Kurdistan. He studied at the Teachers' Training Institute in Hewlêr (Erbil), and participated in the Foundation Congress of the Kurdish Writers' Union in Baghdad in 1970. In 1973 he went to the former Soviet Union, and in 1979 he received an M.A. in pedagogy with a specialisation in foreign languages.