He was born in 1981 in Said Sadiq town of Sulaymaniyah province, in South Kurdistan.
Due to the scarcity that engulfed Iraq and Kurdistan in the 1990s, especially due to the economic embargo on Iraq, Kawa could not complete any education. Kawa currently lives in Sulaymaniyah and is the father of a son and a daughter named Shania and Mukriyan.
In the spring of 2005, he joined Kurdistan newspaper, where he worked in the reporting and news departments for four years.
In the spring of 2009, he resigned from New Kurdistan. He then ran a site called WallPress for four months. Kawa participated in two journalism and photography courses organized by Press Now in 2008 and 2009.
In the summer of 2009, he attended a legal course at the Institute of War and Peace Journalism.
He has participated in several photography exhibitions in Sulaymaniyah.
In addition to several local magazines and newspapers, his photos have been published in the Dutch daily newspaper Trau.
Throughout his fourteen years as a journalist, he has worked for many media outlets. He was the editor-in-chief of New Kurdistan, Wall Press, Rudaw weekly, editorial board and head of the social department of Hawlati newspaper. He was also the journalistic supervisor of the Kurdish section of Anatol Agency.
He is the writing Director of City Magazine. Head of Planning and NRT Reporters, Editor-in-Chief of Maktoub website, which was dedicated to Kirkuk. Currently (2019) as Writing Director of Zaman Weekly.
A book by the famous Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci - translated from Persian into Kurdish, which is a press interview with Hama Reza Shah of Iran, Khomeini, Mahdi Bazargan, Muammar Gaddafi, Ariel Sharon.
The book, entitled Conversations with Those Who Changed the Middle East, was published in 2013 in Sulaymaniyah by Shar Company.[1]