Khalil Rashow or Xelîl Cindî Reşo (born 1952) is a contemporary
Kurdish academic, writer and researcher.
He was born in the village of Mam Rasha in district of Sheikhan in
Mosul province in northern
Iraq. From 1970 to 1974 he studied at the department of Kurdish language and literature of
University of Baghdad.
He moved to
Czechoslovakia in 1986 and received his PhD from the Oriental Institute of
Charles University in
Prague in 1991. From 1985 to 1991 he was the head of Society of Kurdish Students in Europe (KSSE).
He has been teaching Kurdish language at the
University of Göttingen since 1996. From 1999 to 2005 he has conducted research in cooperation with Professor Kreyenbroek on
Yazidi religious beliefs. He is considered as an expert on Yazidi
folklore.[1]
From 2013 to 2015, he served as Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to
Vietnam.
Books
Êzidiyatî: li ber roşnaya hindek têkistêt ayinê Êzidiyan (Yazidism: In Light of Some Yazidi Religious Texts), Korî Zanyarî Kurd, Baghdad 1979. (in Kurdish, co-authored with Xidir Silêman).
Kurdish national liberation movements in southern Kurdistan 1939-1968, APEC Publishers, Stockholm, 1994. (in Arabic)
Du´a û dirozêt Êzidiyan (Prayers of the Yazidis), in two parts, Einbeck Publishers, Germany, 1997. (in Kurdish)