Ibrahim Mahmoud, born in 1956 in Kharbat Anz near Qamishli, Syria, is a Kurdish researcher, writer, and thinker. He earned a philosophy degree from the University of Damascus in 1981 and taught in Qamishli for over 30 years before focusing on research and writing in 2002. Mahmoud has authored over 300 books across literature, philosophy, and criticism, contributed to major Arabic media, and translated works from Kurdish and French. Since 2013, he has been a researcher and lecturer at the University of Duhok in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.