Yerevan Saeed
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Yerevan Saeed is a political analyst and commentator on Kurdish and Middle Eastern affairs. He is the Barzani Scholar-in-Residence at American University and director of the Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace.[1][2][3]
Life and career
Saeed is a survivor of the 1988 Halabja chemical attack. In 2024, Kurdistan Chronicle published a feature on his life and on remarks he gave at an American University event marking the anniversary of the attack.[1]
WBUR's Here & Now identified Saeed in 2014 as a journalist for Rudaw, an Erbil-based news outlet.[4] In 2020, Voice of America identified him as a researcher at the Middle East Research Institute in Erbil.[5]
Saeed has since been quoted or interviewed by major news organizations on the politics of Iraq, Syria, Kurdish autonomy, and regional energy disputes. Newsweek quoted him in 2017 on the war against the Islamic State in Syria.[6] NPR quoted him in 2024 on the future of the Syrian Democratic Forces after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.[3] Voice of America has cited him on Kurdish autonomy in Iraq and on tensions involving Turkey and the PKK.[7][8] CNN interviewed him in 2026 about U.S. policy toward Kurdish groups and Iran.[2] S&P Global has also quoted him on Iraqi Kurdistan's oil and gas disputes with Baghdad.[9][10]