1978 yılında, Musul Üniversitesi Avrupa dilleri bölümünden mezun olan Othman Ali, 1981'de Carleton Üniveristesi Uluslararası İlişkilerde ikinci lisansını tamamladı. 1993'te Kanadada Toronto Üniversitesi'nde “British Policy towards the Kurds, 1918-1932: An Analysis of Local and Regional Factors (İngilizlerin Kürt Politikası: 1918-1932: Yerel ve Bölgesel Faktörlerin Analizi)” başlıklı teziyle doktora programını tamamladı. Kürt Çalışmaları üzerine yoğunlaşan Othman Ali, Salahadin Üniversitesi Tarih Bölümümünde doçent olarak görev yapmaktadır.

Kitaplar

• Hezb al-Adalah wal Tanimiyah in Turkey , Minart Publication , Beirut –Erbil ,2113
• Telaqi el-Islam wal Ilmaniyah fi Kurdistan, Erbil ,Nareen publication, 2014
• The Future of U.S –Kurdish Relations :Will Kurdistan Be an American Colony. Trust Publication, London ,2011
• Kurd wa Kurdistan fil Wathaiq al-Uthmaniyyah , , Erbil: Mukrian 2009
• Studies in the Civilization of Islam: Muslim Contribution to the Renaissance, IIIT. London 2010
• Kurd wa Kurdistan fil Wathaiq al Britaniyyah , Erbil: Mukrian Publication, 2009
• Dirasat fi al-Harakah al-Kurdiyyah al-Muasirah (Arbil, Iraq: 2003).
• British Policy and the Kurdish Question in Iraq, 1918-1932 , National Library of Canada, Bibliotheque . Ottawa .1995

Hakemli Dergilerde Makaleler

• “ The Kurdish Factor in the Struggle for Vilayet Mosul , 1921-1925” , The Journal of Kurdish Studies vol. IV (2002),31-49
• “Sultan Abdul-Hamid wa-l Alwiya al-Hamidiyyah al-Kurdiyyah, 1881-1909”, Marasid (London), vol.1, Autumn 1999, 5-23.
• “The Kurds and the Lausanne Peace Negotiations”, Middle Eastern Studies (London) vol.33, No.3, July 1997, 521-534.
• “Southern Kurdistan and the Last Phase of Ottoman Control,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (London), vol.17, no.2, 1997, 283-291.
• “Kurdish Nationalism in Its infancy, 1898-1929”, Occasional Papers, Badlisy Centre for Kurdish Studies (Tallahassee, Florida), 1992.
• “Irak Kurdistaninda Islami Haraket ne Zaman ve Nasil Basladi” içinde: Kurt Sorusturmasi (Ankara: SOR Publications, 1992), 135-149.

Yayına Hazırlananlar

• The Life and Career of Mustafa Barzani : the Kurdish Nationalist Movement ,1946-1975

Makaleler

• “The Career of Uzdemeer: A Turkish Bid to Northern Iraq”. This study is based on British and Turkish archives and will be ready in November. Baghdad Berlin Railway and British Policy of Obstrauction 1901-19014

Bildiriler

• Annual Conferences of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA),U.S.A., in1992, 1995, 1996 and 1999.
• Badlisy Centre for Kurdish Studies Bi-annual Conferences, Washington, D.C., in 1992, 1994 and 1999.
• “Perspectives on Ethnicity and Islam Conference”, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1997.
• The First International Conference on the Kurdish Question, Cologne, Germany, 1990.