The Mesopotamian Academy, affiliated to the Social Justice Council, was founded in Qamishlo in 2013 in order to create a new and free-thinking society.

The Academy, with its experienced staff, carries out work in scientific studies.

After its opening, the Academy’s education system has gone through many changes, as the aim is to continuously improve and strengthen the system. In this context, the training sessions, which would normally last 9 months, are now lasting 14 months.

In the first 15 days of the Academy training session, theoretical lessons such as the importance of education, criticism and self-criticism, social science, democratic nation and Kurdish language are given.

In the second term of the training session, courses of history of Kurdistan, sociology, Jineoloji, Middle East history and English language are given.

After the first two sessions, which last 3 months and 15 days, the students of the Academy begin their third term training in the specialising branch. This period consists of two parts, Sociology and Science History, and lasts 4 months.

Students who successfully complete all three sessions, after the proper evaluation, would then begin their studies in the chosen field in the Autonomous Administration institutions.

The Academy has successfully completed six education sessions so far, attended by hundreds of students. The seventh education session started in October.

Gulna Xelîl, a student of the academy, said that they have been given classes on science and history of the ideas.

Dîlan Hesen, the academy director, said that the role of women in the Academy is prominent and added that the participants to the education sessions have made great progress in the fields of social development and history.

Mîran Hesen, one of the academy executives, said that the awareness of history and thought has been destroyed by the rulers. “We aim at a revolution in the field of women's freedom”, she added.

Emphasizing that there are big differences between academies in the existing state systems and the academy of Mesopotamia, Doşêr Mihemed, another executive, said that, in state-run academies and universities the education system is based on memorization and it actually helps to spread capitalism and racism.

Doşêr said that no student in the state academies could question the education given to him/her, and added: “The students in our Academy complete their education by interiorising things and not by learning them by heart. Students cannot graduate without real success in every field”.