Awjalan Fatiimi

Awjalan was born in the Kurdish region of Syria (Rojava) from where he and his family had to flee to the Kurdistan region of Iraq during the Syrian civil war. Despite the hardships of living in the Darashakan refugee camp over 20 miles from Erbil, he has excelled in hip hop dance and has participated in the YES Academy Erbil program for the past 5 years. He currently studies Information Science at the Noble Institute of Technology from where he plans to graduate in 2021. He recently won the first place in Iraq innovation Hackathon Prize 2019 for App development in the field of plastic recycling and has also been a prize winner at the Unbreakable National Hip Hop Dance Battles in Erbil.