{"id":13,"date":"2022-12-16T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agapen.me\/portfolio\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:06:23","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Sir\/Madam!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/agapen.me\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eiksgk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eiksgk.jpg 960w, https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eiksgk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eiksgk-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/eiksgk-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Hello,<br>My name is Aga, I am from a small town, Ranya, in Kurdistan! Currently, I live in Erbil and have made myself busy teaching at the Lebanese French University &#8211; Erbil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a teacher, translator, a big fan of Linux and open-source projects, and founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/bircode.tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bircode for Software Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a Bachelor&#8217;s degree <em>from the College of Education, Department of English, at Koya University,<\/em> and a Master&#8217;s degree in ELT <em>from the University of Warsaw, Poland<\/em>. So far, I have had many students at different stages and ages. The first time that I taught a class was in 2017. I went to the Cultural Center of my town and informed them that I want to teach the English Language here voluntarily. They were surprised! Besides teaching, I am a good translator too. I have translated and reviewed +250 talks on TED. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/profiles\/17390217\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/profiles\/17390217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/profiles\/16431817\/translator\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/profiles\/16431817\/translator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> are my profiles!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I am really interested in volunteering, when I was studying for my BA, I founded a non-profit organization, Ayan Organization for Rehabilitation. Lucky me, my friends welcomed the idea, and most of them joined as volunteers. We operated in 5 different towns in Kurdistan. Here is our Facebook page, if you wish to glance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,My name is Aga, I am from a small town, Ranya, in Kurdistan! Currently, I live in Erbil and have made myself busy teaching at the Lebanese French University &#8211; Erbil. I am a teacher, translator, a big fan of Linux and open-source projects, and founder and CEO of Bircode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaismael.com\/portfolio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}