On December 21, linguist Feryad Fazil Omar received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Omar was born in 1950 in Sulaimaniyah. Since 1982 he has worked as a lecturer at the Freie Universität Berlin at the Institute for Iranian Studies in the Department of History and Cultural Studies. He is also the founder and president of the Institute for Kurdish Studies Berlin. Omar’s most important works include the Kurdish-German dictionary (Northern Kurdish/Kurmancî) and the Kurdish-German dictionary (Central Kurdish/Soranî).
Für sein herausragendes zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement, für den Schutz und die Durchsetzung der weltweiten #Menschenrechte, sein unermüdliches und vielseitiges Engagement als Wegbereiter der Forschung und Lehre der kurdischen Sprache, Kultur und Geschichte in Deutschland 🧵 pic.twitter.com/02wpI6VE7b
— Senatsverwaltung WGPG (@SenWGPG) December 22, 2022