The tenth episode features a conversation between Monstera and Dr. Sherko Kirmanj. Sherko Kirmanj earned his PhD in International Studies at the University of South Australia. He ‎is the author of several books in English, Arabic and Kurdish. ‎Dr. Sherko has published thirteen articles and six book chapters in international refereed journals ‎and academic volumes in English. At the same time, he has published numerous ‎newspaper and website articles in Kurdish. He worked at the Ministry of Higher Education in ‎Kurdistan Region concurrently lectured at the College of Law and Politics at the Salahaddin ‎University Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Dr. Sherko was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of South Australia ‎in 2012 and a Senior Lecturer at the University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia in 2013. He ‎is Assistant Professor and the Chairperson of the Department of International ‎Relations, the University of Sharjah in the UAE since 2018.