To be brief about my life, I lived for the past 22 years in the city of Baghdad, Iraq, where I witnessed and lived through all the major events which happened over the past two decades (i.e. three wars). I lived amidst one of the most vivid areas of Baghdad which its name is "Karrada." This name was derived from the name of special machine which has the same function of water wheel, but it was used instead for irrigation purposes.
I graduated from Al-Mansour university in Baghdad with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and I was ranked the third among 138 other fellow students. Having a good head on my shoulders helped me next to win the Fulbright scholarship with other thirty Iraqi candidates (from among 3,000 applicants) at 2006. I spent two years in Manhattan, Kansas (The Sunflower State) at Kansas state university, working on my M.Sc., which I finished in September, 2008. Kansas is also famous for its tornadoes (The Wizard of Oz) with whom I was in close encouter at June, 2008 (a really close one!). My adviser there was Dr. Andresen who provided me with invaluable support and advice along the way.
I am generally interested in kernel-space and user-space programming and I do web programming and design as a hobby (e.g. this site). I also enjoy fine-art photography and attend film screenings in my spare time. If you are interested in dynamically watching some pictures of old Baghdad then click here.