Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami is Associate Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University, Canada. He has published extensively, in both English and Kurdish, in the areas of Kurdish language policy and planning, critical discourse studies, Kurdish linguistics, multilingual education, and communication. Among others, he is the author of one English monograph entitled Kurdish Identity, Discourse and New Media, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2011, two Kurdish monographs, both published in 2018 in southern Kurdistan, and a co-editor of the special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (no. 217, 2012) devoted to Kurdish sociolinguistics and language policy. In addition to numerous book chapters and encyclopedia articles, Sheyholislami has published in several peer-reviewed journals such as Language Policy, Discourse & Society, and Critical Discourse Studies. He is the winner of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Junior Faculty Research Award 2014, Carleton University Faculty Graduate Mentoring Award 2016, a nominee for the Capital Educator Award (Ottawa) 2010, a member of the editorial board of Contemporary Literary and Cultural Studies, a member of the editorial board of Pajooheshnameh ye Adabiate Kordi (Kurdish Literary Studies Journal), a member of the editorial review board of the International Journal of Kurdish Studies, and a member of the Academic Committee of International Institute for the Study of Kurdish Societies. His current research concerns language ideologies and mother-tongue education in Iran, Kurdish language policy and planning, lexical variation in Kurdistan, and the history, development and dialectical variation in central Kurdish.