A Featured Academic with Unusual Items and Life-Style
We would like to talk about one of our experienced staff. Well, it is a bit difficult to define him with basic adjectives or positions within the university, but depending on the current position he his holding I t can be said that Dr. Kanar is the Head of Testing Center for the Education Faculty and Prep School.
Let’s have a look at his past in the university borders. Mr. Kanar started his career at Tishk International in 2010 on the old campus as an English teacher. During his services as English teacher, he was the first academic who set up the first “Diving Club” in Kurdistan. Well thinking of the geographical conditions of the region, this club seems a bit strange and unusual; however, looking into his life (of which some parts will be reflected below), indeed it is not so unusual.
Mr. Kanar, during his 7 years of lecturing life, gave courses to the students and became one of the pioneering lecturers who gave Pedagogical Formation Course lessons for the academicians from different universities of the region.
With his slow-talking, plainspoken and grave style, he always represented the extreme, but applicable, ideas both in the classes and in his daily relations.
As an academic of two PhD and two Masters (one PhD and one Master were left incomplete in the process of thesis), he wrote a dozens of book some of which are used as one of the masterpieces for those who want to prepare for the university entrance exam from the language field. When we looked at his office located in the Education Faculty, some of these books appear on the shelves.
Visiting his office, you will meet a very strange scenery: the room is full of old, queer, antique items. When we asked him the story of these items, he says he is a good buyer, both online and public bazaars.
Dr. Kanar “if there is relation to my life or it has history, then that old item will be added to my collection. So I have 1000 toys that are washed are ready to play.” His collection is not limited to Kurdistan. During his PhD in Georgia and living in Turkey, as he said, he visited many second hand markets; however, he mentions that Lenge market in Kurdistan has a separate place in his mind. He says “You can find even what you don’t expect and you don’t look for.”
Well, asking about the physical condition of his desk, he says “I like disorder. I resist to accept cliché. I have my own way in which order is in disorder. Instead of finishing one job and starting next is not my way. I will start many finish accordingly. By the way, my home is also arranged like that; not everything is fixed as they are to be, but as in my mind.”
Asking about his hobbies, he says “My hobby is electronics, many of which were bought from e-bay, amazon. In my spare times, I convert the toys into electronic devices and then I give some of them as souvenirs to the friends, students. Well, I also have an interest in the drums. I have tried to learn how to play (but he does not explain if he could manage or not). By the way, marbles from the Lenge market is also very important to me. The marbles were very expensive in my childhood so I could not afford to buy but now I have many of them to be able to play.”
Finally, having asked about the recent personal development activities, he says that as a PhD holder with dozens of books, many papers, scientific and social activities, he got the certificate of hair-dressing from Hawler.
“He believes our horizon mustn’t be limited; even with the limited things, we can do more. Nothing is less important, we just make them so.”
