Born in the city of Kirkuk and completed elementary, intermediate and secondary education there.
Received BSc in Law from the University of Baghdad.
Received Ph.D. in Law from the Sorbonne, France.
Taught at the universities of Basra, Baghdad, Sulaimani and Salahadin in Arbil from 1968 until December, 1982, when he was compulsorily retired for political reasons.
His first articles, in Kurdish, were published in "Hiwa", a Kurdish magazine, while he was a student at the University of Baghdad in the late fifties.