Helket Idris Abid

Helket Idris Abid (born June 28, 1988, in Simel, Duhok Governorate) is a Kurdish writer, director, actor, and journalist from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Early life and education

Helket Idris Abid was born in Simele, Duhok Governorate in 1988. He completed primary and secondary education at Shahidan School in Simel. He graduated in 2009 from the Department of Theater at the Duhok Institute of Fine Arts and earned a bachelor's degree in theater from the University of Duhok in 2013. He received a master's degree in Kurdish Studies from Mardin Artuklu University in Turkey in 2021.

Career

Abid has written several plays and participated as an actor in films and television dramas. He produced the television program Kurd in Russia in 2020 for Waar TV. n 2022, he was received by the US Consulate General in Erbil, which announced their support for his work and activities. And He also wrote the play The Kurdistan Epic, which was performed on 11 September 2024, in the presence of the President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nechirvan Barzani.

He is a member of the Kurdish Writers' Union and the Kurdish Artists' Union.

Awards

• Best Playwright Award – Sulemani Theater Festival 2011
• Best Playwright Award – Saqqez Festival, Iran (2024]
• Best Playwright Award – Erbil (2019)
• Best Street Theater Director Award – Soran (2021)

Published works

• A Dream Outside the Cage (2011)
• Anahita and Gemivan (2012); second edition 2023 in Istanbul
• My Mother Grave (2021)

Theater and film

• Actor in the feature film House Without Roof (2016)
• Actor and casting director in the feature film ' (2016)
• TV drama Vekolin (2020)
• Several plays authored by him, including Bochi Mar (2013), A Scene in the Gas (2015), A Scene of Killing (2016), Who Is Leaving? (2021)