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Zakarya Bezdoode received his PhD in English Language and Literature from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. He teaches English Literature at the Department of English Literature and Linguistics at the University of Kurdistan. He is interested in cultural studies and conducts research on subjectivity and identity in contemporary English and Kurdish fiction. He is writiting fiction too, and his first collection of short stories in Kurdish, Dialogue, was published in 2018.