Those who wrote this memory
Figures
Twelve figures who shaped — in ink, sword or film — the face of modern Kurdish memory.
Mustafa Barzani
1903 – 1979
Mullah Mustafa Barzani (1903–1979), the greatest Kurdish military leader of the twentieth century and the founder of the modern Kurdish nati...
Qazi Muhammad
1893 – 1947
Mohammad son of Qazi Ali was born in 1893 in Mahabad to a distinguished religious family: his father was the city's chief Islamic judge and...
Jalal Talabani
1933 – 2017
Jalal Talabani (1933–2017), the first Kurdish president of Iraq and one of the great Kurdish leaders of the twentieth century. Born in the v...