Dr. Peshawa A. Muhammed currently works as Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Diplomatic Affairs – Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). He previously worked as director of Kurdology Centre, a research centre based at the University of Sulaimani. Dr. Muhammed took his MA at the University of Leeds in Strategic Studies and his PhD at Keele University in Politics and IR. His research focuses on US perspectives on secessionist movements, with a particular interest in US approach to Kurdish independence from Iraq. He is also, more generally, interested in US foreign policy towards Iraq and the wider Middle East. Dr. Muhammed's first career was in print journalism. He has so far published over 100 articles on current dilemmas and future directions of Iraq in general and the Kurdistan Region in particular. Some of these articles were based on exclusive interviews with internationally renowned academics, scholars, and policy makers around the world, including: Noam Chomsky, Richard Perle, Denise Natali, Daniel Pipes, and Ralph Pettman. Dr. Muhammed has appeared regularly as a guest commentator on Middle Eastern and Kurdish current affairs for various TV channels and other local and international newspapers. Having presented numerous papers in international conferences and workshops, Dr. Muhammed is also an associate member of the Journal of Global Faultlines, a double-blind, peer-reviewed, academic journal, published by Pluto Journals twice a year. The journal is based in Keele University, UK.