Dilar Dirik was born in Antakya and grew up in Germany.
She tweets @Dlrdrk1..
She has written on the Kurdish struggle for a range of publications including openDemocracy , the Boston Globe and ROAR Magazine .
She is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford and holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.
Dilar Dirik was born in Antakya and grew up in Germany