Politician Ali Awni Nimat Muhi joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Students Union in 1984 and the ranks of the Party in 1985. He was a Party delegate to the twelfth Congress in Erbil in 1999, and in 2010 was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the thirteenth Congress.

Biography

Ali Awni was born in Zakho in 1967. In 1975, after the setback of the September Revolution, he and his family went to Iran, where he completed primary and secondary school. In 1991, after the uprising in South Kurdistan, he returned home. In 2003 he obtained a master's degree in Kurdish literature from Salahaddin University. He is proficient in Kurdish (all four dialects: Kurmanji, Sorani, Luri, and Gorani), Persian, English, and Arabic.

Struggle Record

In 1984 Ali Awni joined the Kurdistan Students Union and in 1985 joined the Party. In 1993, at the Students' Eighth Congress, he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1994 he became head of the Duhok–Nineveh branch of the Kurdistan Students Union. In 1998, at the Students' Ninth Congress, he was reelected to the Executive Committee and was later elected secretary of the Kurdistan Students Union by its members.

In 1999 he was a Party delegate to the twelfth Congress in Erbil. In 2001 he became administrator of the Zakho Branch 8 committee, in 2005 head of Zakho Branch 8, and in 2007 head of the Central Office for Mass Organizations. In 2010 he became head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Cadre Institute and in 2010 was elected a member of the Leadership Council of the Kurdistan Democratic Party at the thirteenth Congress.

He was head of the Sheikhan Branch Twenty committee in 2011–2017, head of the Soran Branch Ten committee of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in 2017, and is now, in 2022, head of the Zakho Branch 8 committee.

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