The YPJ Commander and veteran Sorxwîn Rojhilat (Mako) was murdered on 11.02.2024 in Qamişlo together with Heval Azadî. On the anniversary of her death and in light of the current situation in Rojava and Kobanê we will publish her striking…
Category: Women’s Biographies
Amina Mohammed Saeed Berokhi was born in 1930 in the village of Berokh, in the Rubarok district of Hakkari, North Kurdistan. Her life was shaped early by struggle and displacement when, following the First Barzan Revolution in 1932, her family…
In the quiet streets of Yerevan in 1940, a girl named Jamila Jalil was born, carrying in her veins the melodies of a people whose voices had often been scattered by history. From the beginning, she listened — to the…
Zadina Shakir was born in Yerevan, a city where many languages met and many silences were learned. She came into the world among the Kurdish Yazidis of Soviet Armenia, a community rooted deeply in tradition, memory, and song. From an…
Pakize Rafik Hilmi was born in 1924 in Sulaymaniyah. In 1929, with the help of a number of girls and boys from the city of Sulaymaniyah, she studied for a short time at Mullah Amin Mamiz’s Hucre (religious study room)….
Kara Fatma’s kurdish name was Fatma Seher Erden also known in Kurdish as Fatê Reş (1888-1955). She was a Kurdish woman known for her bravery and leadership in eastern Anatolia during the late Ottoman period, around the 19th and early…
Zilan Kinaci, born in Malatya in 1972, graduated from Inonu University with a degree in psychology. She was married. Zilan voluntarily joined the Kurdish liberation movement. Although she worked professionally, she refused to lead a normal life while her homeland…
Who was Nefertitî? Which were her roots? How she was related to Kurdish ancestors? To know about Nefertitî, her life, her believes and legacy we need to dig deep. It is not only about digging layers of earth that until…
Hevrin Khalaf served as the Secretary General of the Future Syria Party after working for many years in Rojava. She was executed by Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya fighters near the M4 Motorway south of Tell Abyad during the 2019 Turkish offensive…
Hozan Mizgîn became the symbol of the martyrs of the culture and art movement with her life, struggle and resistance. She became the voice of the Kurdish truth. Gurbet Aydın was born in Batman in 1965, Hozan Mizgîn went to…