Director Hisham Hassan Al Thahabi has been with the Iraqi Home Foundation for Creativity since 2007.

He has a Bachelor of Psychology from Al Mustansiriyah University and has received many awards and acknowledgments including:

• • • • • • • • • • • • • Awarded the “Best Creative People Award” 2016 with the consensus of jury members of the Oyoun Foundation for Culture and Arts, Baghdad.
                        • Winner of the Arab Hope Makers Award 2017, as part of the initiative launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai.
                        • Called “Iraq’s Mother Teresa” in 2016 by Iraqi activists in Erbil.
                        • Named “Father of the Year” 2015 in Iraq.
                        • Named the “Best humanitarian” in 2015 in the Baghdad Mawazine News Agency’s referendum.
                        • Selected as the “Best humanitarian” for the past seven years (2007- 2014) by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and the Iraqi Independent Film Center (IIFC) in 2015.
                        • Holder of a Special Education Certificate from the USA in 2014 Head of the Iraqi House of Creativity Foundation.
                        • Chairman of the “Abandoned Children without Parental Care Association”; Iraq 2008 – to date.
                        • Head of a field survey team, Kurdistan Save the Children Organization (Children’s Fund) (KSC-KCF), 2004-2007.
                        • Director of the “Better Tomorrow Program” for Juveniles – 2005 (for 6 months) Psychological consultant for kitabat.com (2011 – to date).