Rosty (Jihad) Othman

Board Member

Jihad (Rosty) Othman holds a master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati, College of Arts and Sciences, Sociology Department 2015. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Manitoba, College of Arts, Winnipeg, Canada.

He taught various undergraduate courses from 2015 to 2019 in the Salahaddin University, Social Work Department. He also worked on various Human Rights

Protection Programs with refugees, IDPs, Syrian refugee children, and asylum seekers in the KRG with UNHCR funded NGOs in Iraq, including TDH-Italy, USAID, and PFO.

His specialties are migration and refugee studies, sociology of health, and research methods. Lastly, he works with Main Street Project (part-time) with people who are experiencing homelessness.