On Monday, February 20, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. at the Khalil khayali hall on the Faculty of Humanities,University of Zakho, the Doctoral Thesis Defense of Ramazan Partav Shihmoz, a postgraduate student from the department of Kurdish language at the University of Zakho, on "The effect and Strive of the folklore on the growing Kurdish national identity between 1898-1946" took place.