Encum Yamulki is the daughter of Mustafa Yamulki Pasha. Mustafa Yamulki was born in 1866 in the city of Sulaymaniyah and married Safiye Khanima, the daughter of Hussein Pasha and the sister-in-law of Said Pasha, in 1888. Said Pasha is…
Category: Women’s Biographies
Leyla Zana was born on May 3, 1961, to a Kurdish family in Silvan, Diyarbakır Province, in southeastern Turkey. At the age of 14, she married her cousin Mehdi Zana, who three years later, in 1977, became mayor of Diyarbakır,…
Maryam Khan was born in 1904 in the village of Dergul in the Botan region of Kurdistan. Despite many difficulties in her life, she has been able to maintain a high personality. One of the characteristics of Maryam Khan was…
Ahlam Mansour, the Iraqi Kurdish short story writer and novelist, is considered one of the most prominent female writers who enriched Kurdish and Iraqi literature during the 1970s and 1980s. She was also one of the female voices who fought…
Leyla Qasim, who is known as “Leyla of Kurdistan”, “The hero of her people who love their country”, was executed in Baghdad on May 12, 1987 by the Iraqi Ba’ath regime. Today, she is a symbol of courage and resistance…
Margaret George Shello was a Christian Assyrian woman, born on 21 January 1942 in the village Dūra, located in the mountainous Barwari region in the Duhok Governorate. Shello had a sister (Rosa) and a brother. Her father was recruited to…
Rewshan Bedirxan was born on July 11, 1909 in Kayseri, Turkey. She was a Kurdish teacher and writer. She was the daughter of Mir Bedirxan’s nephew Azizi. Rewshan Bedirxan continued her education in Damascus and Jordan and became one of…
Jihan Ara Paweyi, daughter of Mullah Nesh’at Pawi, was born in Pawe in 1895. Her family was basically an artistic and scientific family. Jihan Ara studied with her father and the scholars of the time and had a knowledge of…
Rihan Khanim of Lorestani (5th century) a poetess who was attracted by the love of God (Ezdanî). Her poetry was illuminated by the light of the world and purified by the ages and the sun. The name of this bright…
Adile Khani Jaff was born in Sanandaj in 1847. This is the second largest city in the east. The Jaff tribe is the largest tribe in Kurdistan and is home to the Zagros region, which is divided between Iran and…