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Yousif Ismael is the Director of the Washington Kurdish Institute (WKI). From 2012 to 2015, he served as an assistant to Dr. Najmaldin Karim, governor of the Kirkuk province of Iraq. Ismael served as manager for Dr. Karim’s 2014 electoral campaign. From 2009 to 2012, Mr. Ismael was Assistant to the Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of Iraq to the U.S. in Washington, DC. Ismael received a Bachelor of Quran Science from Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad and is fluent in English, Kurdish, Arabic, and Turkish. Ismael frequently writes about Syria, Iran, Turkey, and Iraq.