Hemin Hawrami  Hemin Hawrami (born 23 March 1976), (), (full name: Hayman Ahmed Hma Salah), is a Kurdish politician, writer and academic. He has been the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament since February 2019. He is a senior member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He was elected as a Member of the Kurdistan Parliament in September 2018. He was the head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party's foreign relations (2011–2017) and later a senior adviser to President Masoud Barzani (2017–2019) for political and international affairs. He has written eight books in Kurdish on Kurdish politics. Hawrami was born in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Slemani Governorate, Kurdistan, Iraq on 23 March 1976. In 1989 at the age of 13, Hawrami joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)’s Students Union, which was active in areas where the Kurdish Peshmerga forces had control. Hawrami graduated from high school in Halabja in 1994 and later read a bachelor's degree in English Literature at the University of Salahaddin in Erbil, graduating in 1999. In the KDP Students Union he was Editor in Chief of the union's Halabja newspaper. He left the Students Union in 2000. The 1991 Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein took place when he was 15. Hawrami has said that during the during the uprising, without his father's knowledge he secretly ntered Iraqi Kurdistan from an Iranian refugee camp and went to the city of Slemani on 23 and 24 March. After graduating from University of Salahaddin, Hawrami worked as a columnist and political opinion writer for the KDP's press, writing about national and regional politics in the KDP-owned Brayati newspaper and Gulan magazine. From 1999 to 2003 Hawrami translated numerous political writings between English and Kurdish for Brayati and Gulan. Hawrami worked in President Masoud Barzani's office from 2004 to 2011, mainly using his English language skills and also sometimes Arabic and his fluency in Persian. At the KDP's 13th congress in December 2010, Hawrami became the youngest member of the party's Leadership Council. He was elected with 742 votes of congress members to the 51-seat Leadership Council, coming 23rd in the election. There were 140 candidates in the election. From July 2011 to February 2017, Hawrami was Head of the KDP's Foreign Relations Office. In 2014 and 2018 he travelled across Europe to campaign for the KDP among the Kurdish diaspora to vote abroad in the Iraqi parliament elections and the Kurdistan provincial council elections.